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Eternal punishment is pointless.
#21
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 7:47 pm)Heywood Wrote: How many of you....when you were theists did not jackoff in fear of going to hell(or blind)? The whole point of hell is to manipulate people into behaving a certain way.

Actually, that was the first and final reason to make me leave the club. I didn't want to believe in something so evil as to punish people for eternity for some 80 years of earthly existence. Back then I was only a child, mind you.
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#22
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:
(November 16, 2014 at 5:13 pm)whateverist Wrote: Yeah after the first couple of epochs or eons, seeing the damned suffer and writhe would surely lose all entertainment value.

Even Mariah Carey?


I suppose she will have to do, but I was thinking more of Pat Robertson suffering 5000 degree molten gold enema's and they would have to go on for a VERY long time before I would tire of watching.

How about one molten gold enema for Pat for each and every penny he filched from befuddled pensioners ??
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#23
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 7:55 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: How about one molten gold enema for Pat for each and every penny he filched from befuddled pensioners ??

What a terrible waste of limited ressources. Satan's residing deep down after all. A simple lava enema should do nicely.
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#24
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
For those that have never seen it.





Here is the short version.



You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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#25
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 7:57 pm)abaris Wrote:
(November 16, 2014 at 7:55 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: How about one molten gold enema for Pat for each and every penny he filched from befuddled pensioners ??

What a terrible waste of limited ressources. Satan's residing deep down after all. A simple lava enema should do nicely.

But Pat covets lava not. Gold, on the other hand . .
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#26
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 8:32 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: But Pat covets lava not. Gold, on the other hand . .

Still, it's a waste. Fill him up with boiling shit for all I care. He was full of it in life after all.
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#27
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
The whole reasoning of this thread is wrong.
Hell was made for the devil and his angels.
There is no purgatory and the Hitlers, Stalins ,Maos are not going to Heaven,
so the only option left is to be sent where the devil is going.
There are people who would not be fit for heaven.
What else would you do with them?
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#28
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
In contrast to Heywood, I do not think of Hell as a punishment. It is an eternal state that is consistent with the logical consequences of your will and the ideas that follow from what you most love. The Twilight Zone video is most appropriate. The protagonist gets what he most desired to his eternal regret.
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#29
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 8:03 pm)IATIA Wrote: For those that have never seen it.





Here is the short version.




One of my favorite episodes ever.

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#30
RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
(November 16, 2014 at 8:40 pm)professor Wrote: The whole reasoning of this thread is wrong.
Hell was made for the devil and his angels.
There is no purgatory and the Hitlers, Stalins ,Maos are not going to Heaven,
so the only option left is to be sent where the devil is going.
There are people who would not be fit for heaven.
What else would you do with them?

Leave them alone? Do nothing? They're dead. They can't do anything to anyone.

Why does God not want these men in heaven, anyway? Can't stand having competition?
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