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inspired sadly by watching the fresh prince last night...

less a question of whether or not there *is* an afterlife rather than if heaven and hell exist, what would they be for you? (and of course, the ultimate metaquestion: which would you end up in?)

― jess, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

heaven = well stocked record store in a post-money society, with plenty of burritos.

hell = other people. (ha. ha ha.)

― jess, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Once is enough.

― dave q, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I assume that if either existed they would be utterly unimaginable. I can see the downside of any fantasy world (and to a lesser extent) the limitations of any torture.

― Nick, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

hell=eternity spent in white room with fundie christians, which riases the grand question - isn't that their idea of heaven?

― Geoff, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jess, I'll see you there. I hope they have al pastor.

― Sean, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have to steal Dickon Edwards' answer to that very question from POP:ART...

"Presumably purgatory and hell are incredibly over-subscribed, while heaven is full of self-righteous bores. I would have to create my own Other Heaven for all those who feel excluded from the other parties. A heaven for gatecrashers who haven't the nerve to gatecrash. No trainers."

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmm... that quote whiffs of "I'm so smart" but actually seems quite uninspired. I've read Dickon Edwards quotes in the past that have had a similar effect on me.

― Nick, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*tsk* For shame, Nick. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've often wondered if the heaven and hell we get is the one of our conception or of somebody else's. Is heaven a white room with boring Christians, 72 virgins in an oasis with all the figs you can eat, or the above-mentioned record store? Is hell a lake of fire, a lack of seeing God, or a record store stocked only with Pat Boone disks?

― nickn, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Heaven is joyful anticipation of things new and exciting. Hell is repetition.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hell is repetition.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hell is repetition...

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

What is heaven?

No SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DON'T LISTEN TO THAT I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED

OR WHAT STUPID RATIONALIST EXPLANATIONS YOU HAVE 'SETTLED' AT

JUST FORGET ALL THAT SHIT?

DONE?

Now tell me, what is heaven?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

heaven is a soft cuddle spot

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

A funky moose?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

Time and reasonably useful infinity.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

Is the bar still in Adams Morgan?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

See, this is why the world ended.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, except that didn't actually happen.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, right, you keep on tellinh yourself that, eggirl.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

I knew it. I knew you wanted me. Freak.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link

i send yr sister sperm fluid already but you open

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link

Heaven - is the whole of the heart
and heaven - don't tear you apart

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

...opened what??!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

Is the bar still in Adams Morgan?

Yeah! 80s night every Thursday.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

I liked that bar.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

I like it too. There's never really a wait for drinks and the sound system is good. Plus the owner is always dressed like a freakshow.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

On top of the sky is a place where you go if you've done nothing wrong,
If you've done nothing wrong.

And down in the ground is a place where you go if you've been a bad boy,
If you've been a bad boy.

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

(the who)

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link

So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell, fool, fool!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

(Black Sabbath)

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

first thing i thought of when i saw the thread title was Adams Morgan

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

A friend of mine once suggested that heaven and hell are entirely subjective states. Through life, you collect all kinds of energy of different intensities and qualities. When you die, you release all of the energy you've collected. Depending on how much you have and how strong it is, that's what determines how long you stick around and what kind of state you stick around in. For instance, if you have a lot very strong angry energy, you'll probably stick around a while, though your primary emotion during this time will be anger. If you have lots of bland, tentative kinds of energies, your experience will consequently be shorter and not very exciting. So each person experiences a heaven or hell of his or her own making.
I haven't really thought through the complications of this, but the idea appeals to me very much. It certainly beats being shoe-horned into someone else's idea of an afterlife.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 08:39 (twenty years ago) link

Hell is yourself
Heaven is being completely free from your self

― Freedom Dupont, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:31 (twenty years ago) link

Meet me halfway across the sky
INto a new beginning, only you and I

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

heaven is a hair band
hell is a comic book

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

ooh baby do you know what love's worth?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

$75/hr

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

plus tip

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.ntskeptics.org/2000/2000december/5001_02.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

Heaven is a warm Hammond B-3 organ and a big leslie cabinet.

Hell is a tiny plastic keytar.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

Hell is Florida.

Heaven: Catalina Island (OK, I'm only dreaming....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

KEytars aren't hell! I can't believe you said that, nickalicious!

Heaven is a place on earth.
Hell is where bats come from.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.chick.com/tractimages82050/0046/0046_07.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:50 (twenty years ago) link

Oooh baby do you know what that's worth?

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

HA! THat D&D girl looks like Chucky. "WANNA PLAY?!?"

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, I'll retract my knee-jerk Anti-Keytaristic statement and put forth a different heaven/hell offering...

heaven = Live at the Filmore
hell = Live at Budokon

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

http://img3.dena.ne.jp/ex32/20030402/66/15630146_1.JPG

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

PBR is so classic and OTM

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

That picture is heaven.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

was gonna go for the obvious reference, then figured... naaaaaah.

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

ooh baby do you know what love's worth?
$75/hr
plus tip

I dunno where you are, sug, but around here it's $150/hr, $500 for the whole night. $750 if you want the 'around the world' special.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/logos/highway-heaven.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

http://www.dailycatholic.org/pix/helisrea.gif

― W4LTER, Friday, 23 November 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link

heaven = perpetually being at the sweetest point of drunkenness with all of your bros and hos
hell = endless fever dream

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Hell would be having to watch the movie Space Cowboys for eternity in a house that smelled worse than a moshpit at a Slayer concert

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/tuomasisreal2.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Magnificent work.

― moley, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link

WAU

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link

Space Cowboys is pretty good, really.

― milo z, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link

i've started subscribing to the idea that heaven & hell shouldn't be regarded as states occurring only after death. i find this is a good way to balance my faith and constant rationalist doubts. thank you dostoevsky.

― Maria, Friday, 23 November 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link

William Blake to thread!

― Aimless, Friday, 23 November 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I do not think these are reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllll

― Abbott, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5949/aclineupsxb5.jpg

― and what, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.utlm.org/images/eternalprogression.gif

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Watch out sorcerers & whoremongers!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

DETOUR 1000 YEARS IN HELL

― max, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link

I went to job service looking for a position as a sorcerer or a whoremonger, but there weren't any openings, so I ended up making donuts. Now THAT was hell.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link

so underneath the Telestial Kingdom is Salt Lake City? yow

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.challengemin.org/dad9an10.gif

"That's a good idea, Donnie."

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

They say those who died without the law are on BROADWAY.
(on Broad-waaay)

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link

that's so weird, mormons do believe in jesus!

― J.D., Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link

did any of you actually zoom on and what's pic

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Yes, we did. It's also the thrilling subject of a recent revival of the Yiff ME thread.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link

i thought they were on an aircraft carrier for a sec

― goole, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Please refer to the AAD Rough Guide to the Infernal Regions where all relevant information on this subject can be found.

― Aimless, Friday, 7 November 2008 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q29q1-uz70&feature=related

― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link

three years pass...

A good friend has a long piece in the Guardian today about how hell has changed over the years:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/26/-sp-my-life-in-hell

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link

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