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MangoTekNo t1_je272ym wrote

Reply to comment by StetsonSBostic in [WP] In hell, people can choose what happens to them. They can choose literally ANYTHING. Naturally, many people try to exploit this by going for luxuries and pampering, but the devil ALWAYS has ways to torture those fools... by Crystal1501

Gotta say that it's divine bullshit to be punished for feeling a certain way. It's not like you can decide how to feel.

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TheMedianPrinter t1_je2eiyn wrote

you can train yourself to react to experiences and feel emotions differently, it just takes a while. you can use attention-based mental exercises as well as perception/emotion training. classical conditioning also helps (like in this case).

from my reading of this afterlife, it's less about punishment and more about sorting people by virtue. why exactly would you need to do that, who knows.

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EoTN t1_je2ygvs wrote

It's an interesting take on the afterlife for sure. Depending on how it's structured, it's a similar concept to purgatory, where in this case you have to learn a lesson, or change your literal mindset in order to grow closer to heaven. Such a good story, I'll be thinking about the intricacies of it for a while!

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Dragonlicker69 t1_je3rzix wrote

Some have suggested that what we call purgatory is what hell is like but because the church was really into eternal damnation and the whole "you need to obey us to avoid it" they needed to create a third afterlife location to explain text that contradicted that.

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MangoTekNo t1_je378d6 wrote

Doing that to someone else though, is pure fucking evil.

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SullaFelix78 t1_je3zg4q wrote

That’s pretty much my biggest problem with religion, the involuntary nature of belief. I see everyone arguing about all kinds of things during debates on religion and atheism, but no one seems to address the fact that most religions claim their deity is fair and good and just, while also holding that the most fundamental part of belonging to that religion is belief in their deity, which absolutely no one can control.

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