What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of hell?
Where do you genuinely believe you're going?
(Spare me the oh so hip 'n trendy ironicism)
>>7968613
All are saved in the sense that everybody ends up in the same place. Only their attitudes and conduct in life will determine how they react to this.
related q to op: best literary depictions of hell?
>>7968642
Dante, of course
>>7968613
50s America
>>7968644
not even that great tbqh
>implying there's going to be anything
Lights out.
I dream of going to hell/meeting jesus and the devil who both tell me the end is nigh.. jesus says by flooding, big D says by fire..
and I'm totes Ath'
but if im wrong.. hell.. but then again, a peak without a drop is not a peak...
>>7968644
I double that doubles
My body will decompose
My energy will rejoin the collective energy until time when energy is needed again to be allotted.
"My" energy will never be mine again, and it was never mine before this time. Even now it's still a part of the greater whole, only separate while in my body as a means to navigate this plane.
Linger on bitches
>>7968667
Does that scare you?
>>7968699
What is scarier?
- The concept of nothing or the concept of the unknown?
- Do you fear the dark or what might be in the dark?
>>7968650
Who did it better then?
I'm going to the fields of Elysium when I die, and I will live in an Epicurean farming commune and have sex with cute Spanish girls with straight bangs and small perky tits and appreciate the greatest works of human art and converse with humanity's greatest minds and smoke a fat joint and spin some Grateful Dead.
>>7968642
My diary tbqh
>>7968650
No, I mean it's not like it shaped European Christianity or anything... oh wait..
>>7968649
Heaven if you're a white male, hell if you're anything else.
>>7968613
>What's your idea of heaven?
>What's your idea of hell?
I grew up believing in the classic images of heaven and hell, to varying degrees of literalness. I was away from the faith for several years and have been re-examining things recently, this part included. It occurs to me that the descriptions from the Bible are more or less based on passages that really aren't meant to be taken literally. The big one for heaven is the description in Revelation, a literal (mis)reading of which has led to a lot of odd teaching that misses the point of things in the first place (various kinds of millennialism and so on). A major locus for hell is from a parable, that of Lazarus and the rich man. My view of heaven is at this point basically that of restoration of the imago Dei and removal of the earthly barriers to that relationship. Hell is more up in the air for me but it would be in essence that barrier relationship maintained.
>Where do you genuinely believe you're going?
By the grace of God, I will go where a place has been won for me and not where I deserve to go.
>>7968707
I fear oblivion.
I know it's irrational. But growing up in such an egocentric society, I think it's understandable.
>>7968719
>converse with humanity's greatest minds
I don't know why so many people *look forward* to this. I'd just bore or annoy the shit out of them.
>>7968774
Boo.
>>7968788
>making an Oblivion reference on /lit/
>bypassing a perfectly fine book in favor of something from /tv/worldAnyone see the movie? I was interested but then never ended up seeing it when it was around
>>7968894
Overall it was okay. The twist would be neat if you're easily bored and didn't bother finishing Moon. I liked the soundtrack.
>>7968922
Thanks. What I saw at the time about it was lukewarm. I do highly recommend Wallace's story collection though. Wallace was up to his usual techniques (implying but not stating the climax of the story for example), but in a warmer, not show-offy way like, say, Girl with Curious Hair.
>>7968699
Oh for sure. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not going to hold my breath.
>>7968948
MIncarnations of burnt children' is so good. As well as the obvious 'good old neon'
I haven't read 'girl with curious hair' but I heard it's a bit amateurish.
My idea of Heaven is living forever and experiencing everything.
My idea of Hell is ceasing to exist.
I think I'm going to Hell.
>>7968773
Christian/10, would pray to for Jesus to keep you out of purgatory.
If hell exists I'm probably going there cause I'm gay. If it doesn't I'm going to have to face an eternity of nothing.
Either way, I'm fucked.
Heaven:
You get to have a fantastic time.
Do whatever you want,no chores.
Everything you wanted is accesible.
Hell.
Surrounded by pricks who say rude things and get in your way constantly.
Making you miserable.
>>7968735
tumblr the post
The world is both heaven and hell; as to "where" "I'm" "going," I think it's some cross between Parmenides and Teilhard and Hindu cosmology.
>>7971529
>no chores
Mfw no chores
>Heaven
State of genuine enlightenment achieved automatically. Can perceive the truths and beauty of the universe on inspection.
Also: infinite buffet and you're never full and never fat
>Hell
Normal death (i.e. ceasing to exist permanently without hope of rez).
Those are my ideal heavens and hells. If only ;_;
