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02 Mar 2014, 10:49 am

Hell would be no reading glasses.

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02 Mar 2014, 1:25 pm

Hell is permanent snow with -20 degree temperatures, and you are wearing winter clothing.

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02 Mar 2014, 3:51 pm

My definition of Hell:

1) Boredom. A place with no culture, no decent libraries, no decent TV in English and no decent concert halls.

2) Shopping A horrible service from members of staff at the shops, long queues at the tills and everyone pays by check. Every weekend you're taken shopping by your partner and you then spend hours counting ceiling lights whilst she looks for a pair of black pants.

3) Home Life. No activity between 1400 and 1600 each day that creates a noise as this is considered 'quiet time'. No activity of any kind on a Sunday as this is supposed to be a 'special day' so all shops and movie theaters are shut and you're forced to stay at home.

4) Work. A soulless job with endless repetition and no hope of any change in the daily routine. Any attempts to change things are dealt with swiftly and classified as 'disruptive behavior' to be punished accordingly at your next salary review.

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02 Mar 2014, 4:05 pm

Some people are living your hell as we speak .
The majority of that has happened to me (excluding 4 and one other bit).

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02 Mar 2014, 5:19 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

I had better not answer this... :evil:

Yeeaah, my answer would get me flamed

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02 Mar 2014, 5:54 pm

Hell means hole in the ground, the grave, where you are just dust, people talk about Hell when they really mean the Lake of Fire into which Hell is cast and destroyed at the end of the thousand years.

Revelation 20:14 :- And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

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03 Mar 2014, 2:31 am

That was very confusing.
I didn't understand it.
So you mean that hell gets destroyed after a thousand years?

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03 Mar 2014, 3:10 am

Just more evidence that it's a man-made concept!

*moves to PPR*

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03 Mar 2014, 5:36 am

wozeree wrote:

Always having another person in close proximity to me.
Having to watch a lot of Oprah.
Never being able to write or draw to express my feelings, it always has to be done verbally.
Never being allowed to read anything but Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, and of course Jane Austen.
Have to go to big party once a week.

What would be your hell?

That's close enough to it for me! I repent! I repent!
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03 Mar 2014, 6:00 am

My idea of hell would be being forced to watch so called reality TV all day long or forced to participate in party games. In short hell would be other people, especially the extrovert variety.

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03 Mar 2014, 7:11 am

Participating with a bunch of people in reality stuff is great - when it's limited to WP etc that is.

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03 Mar 2014, 10:25 am

Ultimately, hell is a choice we make about how we live our lives.

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03 Mar 2014, 10:29 am

JSBACHlover wrote:

Ultimately, hell is a choice we make about how we live our lives.

most people in this world don't have a choice in how to live, most live lives so hard scrabbling along just trying to eat.

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03 Mar 2014, 3:36 pm

zer0netgain wrote:

Aside from what the Bible says about Hell....

I'm amazed at how we humans can create our own Hell in this world. I don't just mean cruelty towards one another. I mean the ways we can submit ourselves to torment because of our own perceived need to be punished for something we've done.

The Old Testament doesn't say very much about hell. It does refer to sheol, where souls reside after death. But not as a place of eternal punishment.

In the New Testament, Jesus mentioned gehenna several times. Gehenna was a valley outside of Jerusalem, where the wicked were believed to suffer temporal punishment for their mis-deeds.

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03 Mar 2014, 5:50 pm

wozeree wrote:

I was reading skibum's thread about Jane Austin and thinking about how if there is a hell, it really shouldn't be fire because that's overkill. I mean if you're burning up all the time, all you'll ever be able to think about is that, how would you even be able to regret your sins (since that's the whole purpose)?

I think for me, hell would be good punishment if I was forced to participate in normal, nonautistic type things.

Always having another person in close proximity to me.
Having to watch a lot of Oprah.
Never being able to write or draw to express my feelings, it always has to be done verbally.
Never being allowed to read anything but Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, and of course Jane Austen.
Have to go to big party once a week.

There's more, but that right there would be enough to make me miserable, but still allow me to reflect on whatever I was supposed to be reflecting on. Maybe I shouldn't write this, the big guy upstairs (if he exists) might get some ideas!

What would be your hell?

I groove to the ideas presented in the "Inferno" of Dante's Divine Comedy (comedy in the sense of "happy ending," because Dante gets to finally spend eternity in Heaven with his beloved). The worst prison in the Nine Hells is reserved for traitors (Satan himself, Judas Iscariot, Vidkun Quisling, Guy Fawkes, Benedict Arnold, and the like), and the sinners condemned there are frozen in ice. Frozen, because treason is the betrayal of all human warmth.

Part of our fascination with various images of Hell is imagining how notorious wrongdoers would finally be held to account for their misdeeds; the images of exquisite punishment in Tartarus from Greco-Roman mythology (Sisyphus forced to try to roll a boulder to the top of a hill only to find that it never will stay where it belongs, Tantalus condemned to never eat food or drink water that is always just out of reach, and so on) are particularly inspiring in this regard.

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03 Mar 2014, 6:28 pm

Hell for me would be spending eternity with a bunch of religious fundamentalists.

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