absolutely it does
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
if you think that heaven is real, that hell is real, that they're both eternal, and that there is a god that decides, then you will do whatever it takes to get there.
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
above family
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
i really, REALLY wish that the protestant movement had developed some sort of Purgatory-like belief, just to provide some sort of option between absolute bliss and absolute torture. it really is just the biggest extremes they could possibly go with. you can so clearly envision the Great Awakening preachers just scaring the absolute crap out of ignorant people, realizing that the control they could gain by doing so
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
I remember the first newspaper article I saw that explained Parallel Universe Theory had it “in a parallel universe, you could be Cliff Richard”.I decided that was dumb, because either way it would not be me *or* Cliff over there.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
i think foucault's analysis of knowledge-as-power has deeply affected my worldview on everything, including this. heaven/hell and similar kinds of beliefs, quite obviously, to me anyway, constitute institutional power structures. religion was at the forefront of figuring out how to tap into all the worst aspects of human behavior and psychology vis a vis these hard definitions of total fantasy, while feeding on the human spirit, in order to accumulate power. i think purgatory may have been the result of some kind of compromise that religion had to make with the state?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
I hope its just this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsS_VMzY10I
― frogbs, Friday, 6 August 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Not exactly ideal. But at my dentist's earlier today, I imagined Hell as an exponentially prolonged dental procedure, in which the painkillers didn't quite take and the dentist's tools keep scraping your gums and tongue.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 6 August 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link