What if hell was basically just having to feel any suffering you may have inflicted on anyone or anything during your lifetime…? No, make that any unrepented suffering you inflicted. What if you were a narrow, selfish, evil, sick, twisted bitch/bastard who never gave a thought for “the other guy”, as it were. That could be quite hellish to have to feel this say, all at once. Sort of like that saying “drinking from the bitter cup of sorrows” except more like chugging. This is the only hell that I can visualize really. It’s hard for me to visualize any other kind of hell because I never believed in a Christian devil or the eternal punishment routine.
I always thought if there is a Heaven it could involve peaceful sylvan scenery, sunshine, etc. No bugs! Sparkling lakes and streams, lovely music. Purposeful, satisfying work and all questions answered. Delicious hangover-free beer and wine, my kind of Ambrosia.
I think, if there is a hell, it is highly personalized. I think this because the worst thing, to me, wouldn’t be pain or suffering, but to know that I would not exist-when I knew I could . That or a perpetual state of sadness, as I sat outside the gates of heaven-alone, for eternity.
No, I wasn’t trying to single you out. It’s just your post got me thinking and you said “what if” and I thought, what if it was something else entirely. I didn’t mean any offense by it.
Now I’m thinking about a “personalized” hell. See, in my mind hell sucks-there can be no redeeming factors (that’s why I think it’s probably a nothingness). If a hell was personalized, could you get any sort of happiness out of it? I mean, wouldn’t you feel sort of important that they satan had to create this for you ?
Anyone know what I’m talking about, or am I rambling?
See this is part of the problem I have with understanding the whole idea of the Devil & eternal punishment. Because eternal punishment, in my mind, serves no purpose whatsoever. It’s useless. Yet if Hell has any redeeming factors, such as maybe learning by experience as I posted above, then how can it really be Hell in the sense of eternal damnation?
How can Hell be Hell if it’s personalized in the sense of being carefully tailored for individuals in some way? Doesn’t this imply purpose somehow? Which circles back to the (IMO) uselessness of eternal punishment. Etc, etc.
Heaven–a library that runs on forever, with all the books that exist, & all the books that ever existed, all the books *yet to be written, all the books the authors intended to write, but never got around to, & all the books that could never have been written but should have been.
Yes, it makes sense. I’m on the same wavelength as you are. If it’s to be hell it would have to have no redeeming factors, but how could this be with eternity?
