(August 27, 2018 at 4:10 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(August 27, 2018 at 3:22 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It's not all about whoring and murder. There are perverse pleasures in sin. That is why people spread malicious gossip, express self-righteous anger, show contempt for their 'inferiors', revel in feelings of self-importance, obsess over their appearances, or have to be the center of attention. Imagine a party filled with those kinds of people where everyone trying make the most clever comment, the most cutting insult, or making showy outrage over perceived slights. Hell is a big party for people who are all about me, me, me, me me. It draws them in like flypaper, stuck on up-staging everyone else.
And what is Heaven other than a community of people who see that it's not all about themselves, their family, their tribe, or nation; but rather, that there is something bigger and more important than all that. They are living together in Truth and loving the highest Good.
Reminds me of Sartre's 'No Exit'. Hell is other people.
And to think . . . Sartre didn't live long enough to see internet comments sections.