Or pure bliss!
― imago, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
was listening to an expert speak on the topic (on radio 4) the other week and it turns out the time-slowing-down thing is a trick of the memory rather than something experienced in the moment, they had an experiment with having people watch rapidly flickering displays and suddenly starting a bungee jump.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
when I was a child, I imagined that when you die you get handed a set of trading cards that collect all the key moments of your life
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
and then you try to collect other people's better key moments
― imago, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
trade you one 'having a child' for that 'built a pagoda'
Hanging around the pearly gates waiting to scam new arrivals out of their rares.
― jmm, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
HOT STAMPERS
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4rgyZzseY
04.45 minutes onwards
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
...I remember that afternoon, not as so many minutes spent in my drawing room interrupted by these strange excursions in time, but as years and years of heavenly bliss interrupted by short periods in my drawing room
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
i'm getting to thinking that genuine belief in heaven/hell is psychotic and drives a lot of evil behaviors
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Well yeah tbh
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
absolutely it does
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
if you think that heaven is real, that hell is real, that they're both eternal, and that there is a god that decides, then you will do whatever it takes to get there.
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
above family
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
i really, REALLY wish that the protestant movement had developed some sort of Purgatory-like belief, just to provide some sort of option between absolute bliss and absolute torture. it really is just the biggest extremes they could possibly go with. you can so clearly envision the Great Awakening preachers just scaring the absolute crap out of ignorant people, realizing that the control they could gain by doing so
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
I remember the first newspaper article I saw that explained Parallel Universe Theory had it “in a parallel universe, you could be Cliff Richard”.I decided that was dumb, because either way it would not be me *or* Cliff over there.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
i think foucault's analysis of knowledge-as-power has deeply affected my worldview on everything, including this. heaven/hell and similar kinds of beliefs, quite obviously, to me anyway, constitute institutional power structures. religion was at the forefront of figuring out how to tap into all the worst aspects of human behavior and psychology vis a vis these hard definitions of total fantasy, while feeding on the human spirit, in order to accumulate power. i think purgatory may have been the result of some kind of compromise that religion had to make with the state?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
I hope its just this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsS_VMzY10I
― frogbs, Friday, 6 August 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Not exactly ideal. But at my dentist's earlier today, I imagined Hell as an exponentially prolonged dental procedure, in which the painkillers didn't quite take and the dentist's tools keep scraping your gums and tongue.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 6 August 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link