Jun. 4th, 2017
Heaven and Hell
Jun. 4th, 2017 01:11 pmSo I was thinking about heaven and hell
again
and I think why I'm not sold on them as concepts is a lot of the essential bits are pretty much like now, only more judgey.
Like, heaven is a good place, and hell is outside and full of bad stuff happening.
My flat is pretty much a good place, full of all the eats I choose and entertainment I want etc, and outside is people making such noises I have to guess if police or ambulances are needed, and further away stuff that gets on the news that is Very Bad.
And it's miserable in here.
I mean, no bad is directly happening to me, but knowing there is bad is miserable.
So I am unconvinced that heaven can ever be a thing If there is hell, because how could the kind of people heaven is meant to be for put up with that? I mean I'm a bit of a useless human quite often, but I care enough that all that bad stuff happening to other people feels really bad. So how could heaven be for good people to, like, sit there forever, while anyone else burns?
Can't work that way.
Either it goes all Buffy in Heaven and feeds them fake news and is a basic lie, or there can't be a hell if we're going to build heaven.
So I reckon there's a lot of work to do to figure out how to either get everyone out of hell or make it stop sucking there.
again
and I think why I'm not sold on them as concepts is a lot of the essential bits are pretty much like now, only more judgey.
Like, heaven is a good place, and hell is outside and full of bad stuff happening.
My flat is pretty much a good place, full of all the eats I choose and entertainment I want etc, and outside is people making such noises I have to guess if police or ambulances are needed, and further away stuff that gets on the news that is Very Bad.
And it's miserable in here.
I mean, no bad is directly happening to me, but knowing there is bad is miserable.
So I am unconvinced that heaven can ever be a thing If there is hell, because how could the kind of people heaven is meant to be for put up with that? I mean I'm a bit of a useless human quite often, but I care enough that all that bad stuff happening to other people feels really bad. So how could heaven be for good people to, like, sit there forever, while anyone else burns?
Can't work that way.
Either it goes all Buffy in Heaven and feeds them fake news and is a basic lie, or there can't be a hell if we're going to build heaven.
So I reckon there's a lot of work to do to figure out how to either get everyone out of hell or make it stop sucking there.