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how do you feel when threatened with Hell?
- Thread starter Eddi
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McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
The exact same amusement I feel when threatened with gods judgement or gods wrath.
I don't care.
Orbit
I'm a planet
Honestly? It makes me think the person is an idiot. That's all, really.
Depends on if their numbers are large enough to make it a self fulfilling prophecy. Where I live its secular enough to be an empty threat.
Where I live i laugh at it. But if I lived in certain regions of the middle east where someone might be tempted to introduce me to the afterlife I might feel more wary of such threats.
Confused.
Are they threatening me or offering me a vacation?
Are they threatening me or offering me a vacation?
Yokefellow
Active Member
Since 'Hell' in the Christian Bible (and even in other religions) is a euphemism for the womb from which we were all reincarnated from, I believe the threat is as real as it gets.
I say threat because I do not wish to come back.
I say threat because I do not wish to come back.
osgart
Nothing my eye, Something for sure
I'd ask them by what criteria are they judging me by. Where's the proof that hell exists?
I feel like they are delusional.
It's either they are living a fantasy, or they themselves are tortured by the idea of hell, or they honestly think they know something or someone ideal. It's all in their heads and not reality.
I'm offended when they judge me by things I consider to be absurd, unprovable and unjust.
I feel like they are delusional.
It's either they are living a fantasy, or they themselves are tortured by the idea of hell, or they honestly think they know something or someone ideal. It's all in their heads and not reality.
I'm offended when they judge me by things I consider to be absurd, unprovable and unjust.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
I feel pity for them if they seem upset at the thought of me going to Hell. I feel contempt for them if they seem pleased by the thought.
Good point.
I had a friend who was sobbing at the idea of me being tortured in hell... His distress was genuine and I felt sad for him.
Much different when an angry stranger is threatening you with it if you don't attend their establishment.
Today's vision of hell is based on Inferno written by Dante Alighieri and the art of Hieronymus Bosch. So i inwardly smile as i think, this idiot is threatening me with a comedy poem and fine art.
It's not as if anyone can actually send another person to Hell.
When I have seen it on here, it seems like an empty threat by the losing side of a debate.
Given what you've been through that comment is utterly not surprising.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
I'm generally pretty live and let live when it comes to people's beliefs. Hell belief is one of the exceptions where I genuinely feel we'd be better off without it. It causes too much pain and justifies too much cruelty.
Best to leave Hell in the realm of fiction and art in my opinion.
Tell them I've been there and they have no idea
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Never been further than York.
I've been when I was once travelling to Grimsby
It was unremarkable but to be fair I only saw the centre, I got a bite to eat at a place that's across the road from the station
I quite like York, particularly the Shambles area (some places will let you into the cellars so you can examine the Roman foundations.
And Bettys, the Yorkshire fat rascal's there are wonderful.
York's lovely there is so much to do, the railway museum, the minster, the great big museum, I enjoyed that
Found the Viking Centre a bit disappointing though indeed I think the ride it takes you on is a bit rubbish, it failed to bring history alive for me as it promised to
