If people explicitly mean "Go to the place where you'll be infinitely tortured in fire and sulphur" I'd be more offended. But they usually use it more like "Fuck off", so whatevs.
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| Poll: How offended do you feel when someone says that you're going to Hell? This poll is closed. |
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| Hell, for me, sounds like a lovely place, so I take that as a compliment. | 2 | 3.77% | |
| I feel not a speck of insult. | 10 | 18.87% | |
| It's definitely a personal attack, but still it doesn't really offend me that much. | 19 | 35.85% | |
| I do feel quite offended actually. I don't like to hear that. | 4 | 7.55% | |
| I feel greatly offended. | 1 | 1.89% | |
| Other (please explain in your post how you feel) | 17 | 32.08% | |
| Total | 53 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Copenhagen School  Religious Views: Its all bullshit to keep you handing money to the usher. (October 30, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Godschild Wrote: I believe you guys are reading into this hell thing what you want to see, I personally have told people if they do not change they will spend an eternity in hell. I've never said it with malice but, with concern or at the very least to support an argument. I say things as my beliefs lead me and one thing my belief tells me is not to be malicious to others. Many here thinks it's okay to use undesirable language against others and I consider that disrespectful and malicious but those who do it don't, they call it freedom of speech, yet when a Christian says to another they are going to hell we somehow cross the bounds of freedom of speech. I've been told to go to hell several times, yet have not heard anyone objecting to it and I certainly haven't raised cane about it. And that is why we consider you to be a deluded person with a holier then thou attitude. Seriously stop it, you'll get laid more.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. 
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I am amused to be threatened in that manner by some asshole who believes in "hell."  (October 30, 2013 at 8:34 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: I've never been told that, aside from the snarky "go to hell" insult, but that's not exactly the same as a Christian telling me I'll burn in hell. This. Thanks CSJ. 
I voted 'other'. When challenged with this supposed threatening bit of shit...
I look into his/her soul through the eyes and say, "perhaps, but won't you be surprised when you get there and find out I'm in charge". After that, I am no longer burdened with superficial conversation. 
When I here someone say you are going to hell my main feeling is one of sadness that people still have the medieval mentality that actually thinks it could be real.
This is tempered with the knowledge that it is said with the intent to threaten and intimidate and would work on weaker minded people, so to with that in mind I find it sinister. You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis. 
It does not affect me any more than any other derogatory epitaph.
Probably the only part of the scenario that does bother me slightly is the theist belief that s/he is making the statement out of genuine concern for the other individual's soul. There is absolutely nothing genuine or loving in regards to informing someone else that s/he is going to hell.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter 
Personally I couldn't care less, it's a comment that has no validity whatsoever. The thing that worries me, especially if the person saying it to me seems delighted in thinking I'll end up in hell, is that someone could actually wish such a thing upon a fellow human being. I find it cruel, sadistic and unfeeling. Wishing that I would suffer in hell says more about the person making the statement than it says about me.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
 (October 30, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Godschild Wrote: I believe you guys are reading into this hell thing what you want to see, I personally have told people if they do not change they will spend an eternity in hell. I've never said it with malice but, with concern or at the very least to support an argument.Just this week, a guy told me, over facebook, that I would go to hell, in much the same way that GC, here, is describing... I replied something along the lines of "Really? I'm going to hell? Oh, now I'm scared!! Man, trying to make me afraid of something that doesn't exist is just idiot. It's like the fear I don't have of the monsters under my bed." The wonderful part of this being in portuguese (from Portugal), is that most other people replying were just telling the guy to throw himself of a building, or to give up on the magic cube (he was advocating for some "church of the square gospel", literal translation...) Poor deluded people... The sad thing is that this "fear" of hell does work on some (or most) of the people out there!  RE: How do you feel when someone directly tells you ...
October 31, 2013 at 5:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2013 at 5:52 am by paulpablo.)
I haven't been told I'm going to hell much.
The few times I have been told this I've took it as a joke, I think some of the time they were jokes from what I recall. Some other times when people have tried to persuade me to join a religion with a vague threat of hell I have generally just thought to myself "Oh no, I'm talking to a nut job and this conversation is going to be annoying and boring" When I was younger and went to a catholic school I believed whatever the adults told me about hell and so on, but then wondered why they didn't follow the bibles rules themselves so closely, I wasn't insulted by the threat of hell I was pretty scared by it and I always imagined my personal hell to be in a small box with no company and no one to talk to forever. If I imagine how it would feel to be told this seriously by someone at the age I am now then it would just depend on who the person was, how the statement was presented to me and how I was feeling at the time. If it was said in an arrogant condescending way I'd be insulted, but this is totally down to the fact I hate arrogant condescending ways of talking, nothing to do with the actual content of the threat. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. |
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