For the purpose of this hypothetical, neither one.
Unofficially, I lean towards your former, with perhaps a smidgen of Ellison’s Deathbird thrown in.
Yes. If I didn’t, I’d go through eternity knowing I could have saved her an eternity of suffering, but I thought my afterlife was more important than hers. How could Heaven be anything but Hell, knowing that?
The thing is that, in Job, the protagonist and his wife were separated because God was being a dick to the protagonist specifically. Even apart from being separated, the protagonist was going to want out of Heaven eventually, I think, and he was better off in Hell, which was not truly evil.
In Dreams, the protagonist and his wife were separated because of the limits of omnipotence. It wasn’t that God was unjust in that scenario; it was that He was bound by his own rules to respect her free will, and by suiciding she had entirely rejected him.
My thinking exactly. Who would have thought that someone that innocent looking was actually evil?
Hell, no. I’d also want to know what he did to deserve eternal damnation. He better not have been cheating on me, cause I’ll shove my harp right up his urethra.
A God who would send anyone to an eternity of flame & torment is evil. He’s gonna fuck you over eventually, and his word on what Hell is like is not to be trusted.
+1
It is our duty to fight with every fiber of our beings against any God who maintains or allows a Hell of eternal suffering.
You sayin this hotshot infallible god couldn’t maybe have a computer error? Or a bad day? We all have a bad day now and again.
I suppose that depends on the hell doctrine you embrace.
When she reaches that river
Lord you know what she’s worth
Give her that mansion up yonder
'Cause she’s been through hell here on Earth
Lord give her my share of heaven
If I’ve earned any here in this life
'Cause God I believe she deserves it
My woman, my woman, my wife.
I’d make the switch
The choice is a logical contradiction. Heaven for one of us would be hell without the other.
That certainly seems to be the expectation, judging by how often she enjoins me to.
Okay I’ve consulted my SO and we wrote down our answer and showed it to each other at the same time. We both wrote down yes. Of course the presence of each other might have influenced our answers. But I believe her. I know she meant it. And I meant it too. Man, I’m lucky.
Mine would have said, “That’s stupid, there is no such thing as heaven or hell.” While I agree with her I would be able to play the hypothetical. Her, not so much.
I’m actually getting more “yes” votes than I expected.
I’m sorry, I’m a Bayesian. I don’t know how to condition on a probability zero event.
By assuming the conditions of the OP, then using your imagination, you should be able to come up with an answer.
Give it a try.
I put yes, but that’s basically because the guilt of knowing someone else is being tortured and I could stop that and I’m not, would be a psychological torment in and of itself. So it’d be hell for me either way.
Well, I moved from our beach apartment in Ventura CA to Mesa AZ for him, so I’d say that’s a yes.
And when I had to relocate here from NYC, in order to take care of my parents, my partner bought the house next door . . . and never once complained. Some people are already angels.