(July 21, 2025 at 7:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(July 21, 2025 at 5:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It's not depressing because very few believers in eternal damnation believe that they themselves will be one of the eternally damned.
Sartre said, 'Hell is other people.' The devout tend to think 'Hell is for other people.'
Boru
They do fear hell; I mean, just look at the lengths they'll go to endure those boring masses. And they also fear hell for others.
Watch this Catholic priest comfort believers that it is OK that their child burns in hell while they're in heaven and that it'll all make sense once they meet god. That their parents and/or children will be so grotesquely deformed by their sins they'll look like monsters, and that is why they won't feel pity for them and will be happy to see them burn.
I mean, how comforting is this? Obviously not very much.
When it comes to Sartre, he literally thought that hell was other people. And you could easily argue that being alone in a room for long periods of time is much better than being with someone irritating. Anyway, he explored this idea more in his play/movie "No Exit" (1962). I would warmly recommend that movie; it is one of my favorites. I remember when I first watched it as a kid and was blown away by how someone can use something like hell as a metaphor.
They fear Hell they just don’t expect to end up there. This is the whole concept of salvation (not to mention proselytizing).
You seem to be developing a habit of responding to things I didn’t say, and I’d like you to stop it.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
