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[meaculpable]

There seems to be some great cognitive dissonance the lot of you are all but too eager to force upon yourselves, I find.  Many of you believe that Hell has some sort of great, spiritual meaning; that I and the rest of the demonic hosts were born (or created) to tempt you into the darkness and then punish you for your failures. A great many of

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[hotshot_momma]

I knew it.

[meaculpable]

So few rarely get the point.

[hotshot_momma]

Okay, stop me if you've heard this one.

In a special level of Chinese hell (so the riddle goes), there is a banquet set out. Real lavish spread, specialties from every province. Especially Hunan. Mmmmmmmn Hunan.

Thing is? Everyone has chopsticks glued to thier hands. Way too long for them to feed themselves. So they're miserable and hungry.

Heaven is exactly the same - the banquet, the chopsticks - only they're well fed and contented.

Why?

wow, I don't know the answer to that one. /BROWNIE POINTS FOR YOU.

[meaculpable]

They eat without using their hands.

[caststwoshadows]

You're wasting your breath, Morningstar.

You know they don't know how to listen.

[meaculpable]

Perhaps I'm hoping one of them will be smart enough to finally do so.

[caststwoshadows]

The ones who are already knew what you're saying.

[meaculpable]

And now the ones who aren't have heard, and may become enlightened.

Surely you won't begrudge them that?

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[badluckpuss]

Now that really is a Hell. Some humans must be trapped in that forever.

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[meaculpable]

I did say until the end of Creation.

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[badluckpuss]

Is that happening anytime soon?

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[meaculpable]

It depends on what you believe, Cat.

[grenadeball]

siddhartha WAS a pretty cool guy

[meaculpable]

I wouldn't know. Most of the other deities gave me a wide enough berth as is.

[grenadeball]

too much of a clusterfuck to be made from mixing up the various belief systems?

or people just knowing that the first fallen, like the wu-tang, ain't nothing to fuck with

[meaculpable]

More like, if they are not venerated, even in death, they will die and pass on as everything else does.

[flyinwithheart]

Wow... the after life sounds complex.

I don't understand why everything seems based on what happens when you die. You would think people would be more concerned about the consequences of their actions while they're still alive.

[meaculpable]

Life is fleeting -- eternal salvation or damnation? Not as much.

[flyinwithheart]

That's a good point.

Is there just those two? Does everyone go there?

[meaculpable]

Most. Some visit their preferred afterlife in accordance to whatever other religion they followed, but they are few and far between.

The Asiatic gods are particularly greedy.