Depends on who you ask, Abbott. Classically, you are cleansed by being burnt in rivers of fire. Tho Chassidic philosophy says that it's through being humiliated by your sins. So... Defending Your Life'esque.
― Mordy, Friday, 12 September 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe it's a dreary empty place where no-one ever posts.
― The Real Slim Whitman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 September 2008 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Conceptually, it's just a moral Naughty Step for kids (and kid-like adults) until they learn the golden rule/categorical imperative.
In real terms, it's very clearly Other People (At Breakfast).
― Our Friend The Atom (Masonic Boom), Friday, 12 September 2008 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
hell is for children
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 13 September 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
save the babies
― The Juan MacCain (The Reverend), Saturday, 13 September 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Jewish purgatory (known as Gehenna) is a place you go to after you die to "cleanse" your soul before admission to Heaven. It's not a place of punishment.
Yep. That's what ILM is for.
― Ack! (Ioannis), Monday, 15 September 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
woah! ioannis is back!
― jay-z on old (The Reverend), Monday, 15 September 2008 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
heh...hi, y'all
― Ack! (Ioannis), Monday, 15 September 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/6347/imageuploadimageyf5.jpg
So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earth's interior than is actually the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same size as their physical bodies.
― ==つ~~~(o)(o) (libcrypt), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
seems rather funhttp://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=13561
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=13546
― Proger, Thursday, 21 July 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://momaps1.org/calendar/view/439/
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh hell no
― ḉrut (crüt), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
I send all child molesters and rapists into hell to include my guilty priests.Explore and discover the many gifts of apparitions that god has sent for your spiritual guidance,enjoyment and enrichment,for as in gods Pieta Prayer book,great are the heavenly treasures within these gifts.Pray the holy rosary for world peace and for all of Gods children to pray the holy rosary.Here is a blessing and a our father prayed just for you,and here is a loving hug from Jesus christ for all of Gods childrenSource(s):the holy apostle james the greater
2 years ago
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Think we should poll this? So far contenders for next track-by-track thread are:
StyxKansasGenesisChicagoJourney
I'm sure I left a bunch out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, October 18, 2013 8:46 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Friday, 18 October 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Heh
― Nationwide Festival of Light Bondage (wins), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
this scenario probably won't come up, but if...
- hell exists- heaven exists- god exists- you die- you are kind of good, kind of bad during your life- somehow you are sentenced to 5 trillion earthyears in hell, but are allowed to spend the remainder of your time in heaven
... then as your attorney i recommend that you negotiate a settlement where you generally spend your time in heaven, and then every quadrillion years you spend a millisecond in hell. it will take (1 quadrillion x 1000 x 5 trillion years) to serve your full sentence in hell, but it's way easier to do it that way then to serve all the hell time first before going to heaven full-time.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
yes, hell. the place of eternal suffering, or a mirror of inception?
― zxf, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
A friend wrote this long piece on the current state of hell: http://thepointmag.com/2014/examined-life/hell
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
keep me updated sir, i am on my last leg
― zxf, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
i always imagine it as a 4chan version of that clip from the eminem video, where he is writhing, but i think that is a psychographical issue
the eminem video superman, where he is writhing in a field of girls
― zxf, Friday, 13 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
i could deal with hell except for Joan Rivers
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 March 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
ruh roh
https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-hell-exist-pope-francis-155354139.html
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 March 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
Adhering to Jesus' commandments (Matthew 19:16-22) is easy enough, so why worry about Hell?
― Wes Brodicus, Friday, 30 March 2018 08:45 (six years ago) link
I thought Hell and purgatory were invented or at least more popularised in around teh 12th century to help line the coffers of teh church. They could then talk the populace into buying indulgences to reduce the time that they or loved ones/relatives spent in at least purgatory.It also helps create the us vs them epistemology where the them are bound for hell because they don't maintain the beliefs, habits morés of those that constitute the 'us' who are bound for salvation. So helps bind people together in the co9ntemporary culture.
Also once protestanism comes in those who work hard in this life are bound for greater comfort in the next world so you need something to threaten those who don't go along with that idea with.
― Stevolende, Friday, 30 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
oh god he's gone universalist on us
no wait this is even crazier than universalism
he's saying that hitler just, you know, vanished?
as for matthew 19:16-22, francis is a pretty outspoken advocate of jesus' advice in those verses...
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
idk a lot of Biblical scholars have claimed "Hell" is a mistranslation of "sheol" (which should really mean "grave") and that bad souls are merely extinguished rather than forced through the spatial nightmare of Hell.
Bart Ehrman writes some interesting musings across his several books on the matter.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
it just strikes me as kind of weird that the goal of all human existence in buddhism is what happens by default to the worst people in the world in certain strains of christian thought
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
tbh living forever in any form sounds like Hell to me so Buddhism otm
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
right, i mean absent the curse of the survival instinct no so-called "heaven" could ever tempt me to reject the gift of nonbeing. i feel like francis and i aren't exactly on the same page here.
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, 30 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
Hi I'm Satan https://t.co/rbpoSaSlCR— Iggle piggle (@1gglepiggle) October 1, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
I think we're in it
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
bump
theres at least one ilxor who afaict believes in hell
this is minblowing to me
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 September 2023 09:07 (one year ago) link
altho they dont upthread
confused now
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 September 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
I ain’t no hippie, but in response to Neanderthal and Kate’s annihilationism riffing upthread, if the options are between eternal unity with the divine, and none-existence, I know which one I’m taking
― H.P, Saturday, 9 September 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
When I examine all the possible origins for the idea of Hell as a place of eternal punishment for eternally anguished souls who shall never escape their extreme pain and humiliation for all time, not one of them makes any sense to me in terms of morality, physics, philosophy or divinity. The only hypothesis that makes the slightest sense to me is that Hell is a falsehood that was concocted solely to frighten credulous people into better behavior by well-meaning but stupid religious leaders who thought they were doing a good deed by teaching this grotesque doctrine to those who respected them.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:13 (seven months ago) link
In this world, we're just beginnin'To understand the miracle of livin'Baby, I was afraid beforeBut I'm not afraid anymoreOoh, baby, do you know what that's worth?Ooh, hell is a place on Earth
― Florin Cuchares, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:25 (seven months ago) link