That’s what the pitchfork is for. Keep everyone moving so we burn evenly.
I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok
Submitted 2 days ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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ghost9@piefed.social 1 day ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
There is no good spot in a microwave for a human
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But what about a hell-sized microwave
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
A microwave oven, no matter the dimensions, uses microwaves. If the wavelength increases tenfold, it becomes a radio wave device and also not an oven, because it’s no longer good at heating water molecules.
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
My religious teacher told us a metaphor for heaven and hell:
In hell, everyone sits at a table loaded with the best food.
But their hands are tied to utensils that are too long to reach their own mouth.
So everyone is miserable and starving while madly trying to eat.In heaven, everyone also sits at a table loaded with the best food.
And they also have utensils that are too long to reach their own mouth.
But everyone is happy and cheerful, as they feed each other.massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
utensils that are too long to reach their own mouth
Cow tools?riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
In hell, they just use Crow Pilot for this sort of thing.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 2 days ago
Then again, since Religions are BS, you are wasting part of your short life, that cool being good with, with the needed threat-motivation of religions’ BS.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
I know nothing about philosophy, but the Absence of Myth is often a heavily discussed topic since last century, and iIrc there's a school of thought that I adhere that says "if you take the gods from the hearts of men, they will make new ones*".
The idea is that our brains are constantly trying to make sense of an otherwise chaotic world, and in doing so, we create (or adhere) to myth to help us keep being rational (and focus on the stuff that matters(?)).
So even those of us that don't subscribe to organized religions still have some mythos going on.
But I'm not educated enough to explain or understand well this point.*e.g. technological progress, artificial intelligence (well mostly LLM bs.), nuclear era will save us all, internet era will save us all, new-age stuff, cosmology, predestination, if we upload our conscience to a computer = heaven, etc. etc.
A link: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/on-the-absence-of-idols-on-mythopoetic-meaning-making/
EDIT: I forgot! One of the most common religious activities that we often don't recognize is playing the lottery. It seems odd, but it is a communal activity solely based in faith that a better life is possible, and it is around the corner.
But this is a faith-based activity, as anyone with some cursory statistics knowledge will tell you the odds are nought to nada.I have often been split apart between telling someone or keeping the "lie", as it seems it helps them keeping hope there is a better tomorrow.
If someone mentions their neighbor won the lottery, I would remind them the difference between empirical and anecdotal evidence.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People aren’t intelligent enough to see through, idk, Western propaganda and Andrew Tate nonsense and they think they can trick God. Even if you don’t believe in the Creator, is anyone here arrogant enough to think they could fool him, hypothetically? 😅
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
Me, at life’s exit interview…
“Sooo… I’m regards to my, er, contributions to the good of the world… Does open source software count? What about all those times I made witty comments that made a few people smile? 😬”
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every bit counts! 😁
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
Or maybe we don't matter enough to be seen.
I mean, beekeepers don't know each bee individually.
In the span of time and space, our existence would be so short that it would be like looking at an individual fleck of dust in the air.ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But God is not a beekeeper because he’s not a man. His understanding of the universe and everything in it is unimaginable to us, our intelligence is contained in a meat machine. So, God knows this universe maybe He does care (well, I believe/“know” He does but I don’t wanna scare anyone 😅).
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I remember one comedian joking about who Hell is the place to be as that is where all the partying will be.
I wanna get drunk, fuck a lot of people, be a gluntanous pig and then pass out and do it the next day.
HELL IS THE PLACE FOR ME.
Enjoy heaven with the harps and floating cloud chairs.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hope a fake societal control construct is [adjective] so [something meaningless], too
podian@piefed.social 1 day ago
Haven’t seen a half-decent shower thought in a long time. Time to unsubscribe.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 day ago
Well I’m wrapping up hollow knight so I know the truth, that the light is evil… embrace the void
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think hell is a non-stop party. Think of all the people who are there–everyone who loves rock music, used drugs, and had sex before marriage. Why would Beelzebub torture his own? We all buddies.
Now think of all the people we’re told go to heaven. Do you really want to hang out with them for eternity?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
I'm not sure if I want to be in a party with Pol Pot, Goebbels and Kissinger.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I like to think Hell is just a big constant party. I mean, all the best people are there, and Satan seems like a pretty chill guy in the Bible. I bet his parties are just non-stop fun.
If you believe in what the Bible says, Christians are in Heaven. This list includes Hitler, much to the dismay of many Christians I know who have rewritten the rules in their mind in order to exclude him. I don’t know if you’ve ever hung out with a huge group of exclusively Christians, but it’s not exactly what I would describe as “fun”.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Not only is there no proof Hell exists (I know, edgy online atheists, actual Christians just mad at God they were sent to bed without dessert, etc), but what is written about Hell in “official” texts (say, holy books) and what was written later (e.g. movies, but also classic literature such as Dante’s Inferno and whatnot) differ a bit.
One of the big misconceptions about Hell is that the Devil (Satan, Lucifer, whatever) is the warden of Hell, or the leader or something. No, he’s just prisoner #1.
It’s more accurate to say that Hell is just a purgatory that is far from God’s light. An endless void.
I’m no Biblical scholar, but most of what we commonly think of as Hell comes from movies, and has been used to scare Christians into giving more than they can afford at the collection plate so the priest or pastor can buy this year’s Cadillac.
As far as where you go when you die? Nobody knows, but science’s best guess is it’s where you were before you were born. Nowhere. You can read about how life was like before you were born, but you can never experience it. Add 100 to the year you were born: anything after that is similarly conjecture and stories. It will never exist for you. Dream about it all you like, but at that time, or somewhat after (people have lived to around 120? but it’s rare) you won’t be here. It’s what you do here that matters.
Instead of worrying about what happens after you die, worry instead about how you will live. Or spare a thought for the trillions who will never live. In your place, a great artist who united the world could have been born, or a great scientist who cures cancer. But instead, you live in their place. That’s not to say your worth is lower; in your place it could have been another serial killer as well. But no, you’re the one who lived… so live.
That last paragraph wasn’t me. I was summarizing and paraphrasing Darwin.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 day ago
May I have a slightly different interpretation: Everywhere.
We are made from the same stuff the Sun is made, traveling together for eons.
When we die, we just roll back to the matter is our planet.
And once it dies, we will travel again together through the stars.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sure, but I mean the mind. We can’t remember where we were before we were born because we did not exist. The mind cannot fathom true zero, not existing, so we made up a lot of cool and interesting theories for what comes next.
Of course, the physical body returns to the soil and all that.
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
Speaking about assumptions about the afterlife, people who believe in reincarnation typically believe that after you die, you get reincarnated. The assumption there is that it happens right away. What if it happens like a thousand years after you die or maybe an entire universe goes by?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’m not sure how many people who believe in reincarnation believe that it happens instantly. Some do. I think for a lot of them (I couldn’t put a number or percentage weight on it), it’s a variable time.
It’s nice to think that the baby who was born down the hall at the moment of your loved one’s death got the soul of your loved one, especially if, as they grow, they exhibit similar traits. Comforting, I mean. Like they will never remember you, but their soul lives on.
I always had this wild idea when I was a kid that there was a sort of “lobby” that souls waited in for a set amount of time. This idea came about in the early 1980s, long before gaming lobbies, but… same idea. The idea being that in this lobby, there are other things you can do, but the main thing you do is pick a life and live it. Like when you’re a new soul, either one of two things happens. Either you get to pick, and you pick an easy one. Or you don’t get to pick, and you get given a shitty one. As those lives end and you come back, you retain the memories and lessons learned, but they don’t carry through to the next life. But in the lobby, they accumulate. And after a few lives, you start picking more creative ones. Like maybe you want someone who has an epic death. Or someone who is one of the 0.01%. Just for the experience. I dunno. It was a theory I thought of when I was a little kid. Probably nothing to it at all. I don’t actually believe it. I just remember making it up. Might have even pieced it together from movies and TV.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Or it could be non-linear…
The Egg by Andy Weir