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PCIntern

(25,532 posts)
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 06:51 AM Jun 2019

These people better hope and pray that they're wrong about the existence of the Afterlife

Last edited Sat Jun 22, 2019, 12:23 PM - Edit history (1)

or at least what they espouse to be their "views" on the existence of same....

When I was in Junior High School we read Dante's Inferno, and the memories of that text have pervaded my conscious thought since then. I can only imagine the punishment for the rapist, child-molester, lying, scheming, cheating individuals who seem to be massing at the top of this right-wing political food chain, but I would positively delight in the creative punishment-for-all-eternity which would be meted out to the ilk such as that so-called "Justice" Department attorney who was arguing against the necessity of basic hygiene needs for the political prisoners which this "Administration", (read: Reichstag" ) has taken. I came up with one for her but DU Rules rightfully prevent me from relating it here...and it would go on for all eternity.

And that's a long time...

I'll leave you with this: the historian Henrik Van Loon in his The Story of Mankind wrote a preface I will never forget:


'HIGH Up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.

When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by."

I hope Satan is awaiting them...

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These people better hope and pray that they're wrong about the existence of the Afterlife (Original Post) PCIntern Jun 2019 OP
Forget the fantasies. They're useless. stopbush Jun 2019 #1
Sartre's 'No Exit' examines that very idea... Kid Berwyn Jun 2019 #2

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
1. Forget the fantasies. They're useless.
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 09:25 AM
Jun 2019

The only justice is the justice meted out to criminals while they are alive. You know, reality.

Either we’re up to the task and accept the responsibility of holding people accountable, or they get away with it. Simple.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
2. Sartre's 'No Exit' examines that very idea...
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 10:01 AM
Jun 2019

Three people find themselves in a windowless room for eternity...

https://archive.org/stream/NoExit/NoExit_djvu.txt

For those who enjoy a bit of comic relief, Rowan Atkinson as Toby:

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