RE: If you knew for certain that you were going to Hell
March 8, 2021 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2021 at 12:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It occurs to me that you and I may have been thinking in different directions, Angrboda. Ultimately, though, I have a similar position on the practical utility of trying to avoid hell. Also doesn't seem to be good-for anybody.
Courses of action (I assume that's the majority of what we'd be considering, changes of behavior rather than changes of mind) taken under duress and with respect to some other issue or item than the specifics of the situations at hand themselves. Not exactly a recipe for human success - but at least within the realm of self interest as you mentioned. Oddly enough, if I were going to (christer)hell, it's unlikely to be on account of anything that I've done...which makes it pretty difficult to do something else™ out of self interest to avoid hell. Trying to avoid hell wouldn't even be good-for avoiding hell.
Russian nesting doll territory, for me at least.
Courses of action (I assume that's the majority of what we'd be considering, changes of behavior rather than changes of mind) taken under duress and with respect to some other issue or item than the specifics of the situations at hand themselves. Not exactly a recipe for human success - but at least within the realm of self interest as you mentioned. Oddly enough, if I were going to (christer)hell, it's unlikely to be on account of anything that I've done...which makes it pretty difficult to do something else™ out of self interest to avoid hell. Trying to avoid hell wouldn't even be good-for avoiding hell.
Russian nesting doll territory, for me at least.
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