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inspired sadly by watching the fresh prince last night...

less a question of whether or not there *is* an afterlife rather than if heaven and hell exist, what would they be for you? (and of course, the ultimate metaquestion: which would you end up in?)

― jess, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

heaven = well stocked record store in a post-money society, with plenty of burritos.

hell = other people. (ha. ha ha.)

― jess, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once is enough.

― dave q, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I assume that if either existed they would be utterly unimaginable. I can see the downside of any fantasy world (and to a lesser extent) the limitations of any torture.

― Nick, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hell=eternity spent in white room with fundie christians, which riases the grand question - isn't that their idea of heaven?

― Geoff, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess, I'll see you there. I hope they have al pastor.

― Sean, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have to steal Dickon Edwards' answer to that very question from POP:ART...

"Presumably purgatory and hell are incredibly over-subscribed, while heaven is full of self-righteous bores. I would have to create my own Other Heaven for all those who feel excluded from the other parties. A heaven for gatecrashers who haven't the nerve to gatecrash. No trainers."

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm... that quote whiffs of "I'm so smart" but actually seems quite uninspired. I've read Dickon Edwards quotes in the past that have had a similar effect on me.

― Nick, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*tsk* For shame, Nick. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've often wondered if the heaven and hell we get is the one of our conception or of somebody else's. Is heaven a white room with boring Christians, 72 virgins in an oasis with all the figs you can eat, or the above-mentioned record store? Is hell a lake of fire, a lack of seeing God, or a record store stocked only with Pat Boone disks?

― nickn, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heaven is joyful anticipation of things new and exciting. Hell is repetition.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hell is repetition.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hell is repetition...

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

What is heaven?

No SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DON'T LISTEN TO THAT I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED

OR WHAT STUPID RATIONALIST EXPLANATIONS YOU HAVE 'SETTLED' AT

JUST FORGET ALL THAT SHIT?

DONE?

Now tell me, what is heaven?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

heaven is a soft cuddle spot

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A funky moose?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Time and reasonably useful infinity.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the bar still in Adams Morgan?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

See, this is why the world ended.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, except that didn't actually happen.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, right, you keep on tellinh yourself that, eggirl.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew it. I knew you wanted me. Freak.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i send yr sister sperm fluid already but you open

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Heaven - is the whole of the heart
and heaven - don't tear you apart

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

...opened what??!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the bar still in Adams Morgan?

Yeah! 80s night every Thursday.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked that bar.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it too. There's never really a wait for drinks and the sound system is good. Plus the owner is always dressed like a freakshow.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

On top of the sky is a place where you go if you've done nothing wrong,
If you've done nothing wrong.

And down in the ground is a place where you go if you've been a bad boy,
If you've been a bad boy.

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(the who)

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell, fool, fool!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(Black Sabbath)

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

first thing i thought of when i saw the thread title was Adams Morgan

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine once suggested that heaven and hell are entirely subjective states. Through life, you collect all kinds of energy of different intensities and qualities. When you die, you release all of the energy you've collected. Depending on how much you have and how strong it is, that's what determines how long you stick around and what kind of state you stick around in. For instance, if you have a lot very strong angry energy, you'll probably stick around a while, though your primary emotion during this time will be anger. If you have lots of bland, tentative kinds of energies, your experience will consequently be shorter and not very exciting. So each person experiences a heaven or hell of his or her own making.
I haven't really thought through the complications of this, but the idea appeals to me very much. It certainly beats being shoe-horned into someone else's idea of an afterlife.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell is yourself
Heaven is being completely free from your self

― Freedom Dupont, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Meet me halfway across the sky
INto a new beginning, only you and I

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

heaven is a hair band
hell is a comic book

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh baby do you know what love's worth?

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

$75/hr

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

plus tip

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ntskeptics.org/2000/2000december/5001_02.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Heaven is a warm Hammond B-3 organ and a big leslie cabinet.

Hell is a tiny plastic keytar.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell is Florida.

Heaven: Catalina Island (OK, I'm only dreaming....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

KEytars aren't hell! I can't believe you said that, nickalicious!

Heaven is a place on earth.
Hell is where bats come from.

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.chick.com/tractimages82050/0046/0046_07.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh baby do you know what that's worth?

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

HA! THat D&D girl looks like Chucky. "WANNA PLAY?!?"

― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I'll retract my knee-jerk Anti-Keytaristic statement and put forth a different heaven/hell offering...

heaven = Live at the Filmore
hell = Live at Budokon

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://img3.dena.ne.jp/ex32/20030402/66/15630146_1.JPG

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

PBR is so classic and OTM

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That picture is heaven.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

was gonna go for the obvious reference, then figured... naaaaaah.

― Pabst Blue Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh baby do you know what love's worth?
$75/hr
plus tip

I dunno where you are, sug, but around here it's $150/hr, $500 for the whole night. $750 if you want the 'around the world' special.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/logos/highway-heaven.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.dailycatholic.org/pix/helisrea.gif

― W4LTER, Friday, 23 November 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

heaven = perpetually being at the sweetest point of drunkenness with all of your bros and hos
hell = endless fever dream

― s1ocki, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Hell would be having to watch the movie Space Cowboys for eternity in a house that smelled worse than a moshpit at a Slayer concert

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 23 November 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/tuomasisreal2.jpg

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

Magnificent work.

― moley, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

WAU

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Space Cowboys is pretty good, really.

― milo z, Friday, 23 November 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

i've started subscribing to the idea that heaven & hell shouldn't be regarded as states occurring only after death. i find this is a good way to balance my faith and constant rationalist doubts. thank you dostoevsky.

― Maria, Friday, 23 November 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

William Blake to thread!

― Aimless, Friday, 23 November 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I do not think these are reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllll

― Abbott, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5949/aclineupsxb5.jpg

― and what, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.utlm.org/images/eternalprogression.gif

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

Watch out sorcerers & whoremongers!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

DETOUR 1000 YEARS IN HELL

― max, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

I went to job service looking for a position as a sorcerer or a whoremonger, but there weren't any openings, so I ended up making donuts. Now THAT was hell.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

so underneath the Telestial Kingdom is Salt Lake City? yow

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.challengemin.org/dad9an10.gif

"That's a good idea, Donnie."

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

They say those who died without the law are on BROADWAY.
(on Broad-waaay)

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:41 (seventeen years ago)

that's so weird, mormons do believe in jesus!

― J.D., Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

did any of you actually zoom on and what's pic

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, we did. It's also the thrilling subject of a recent revival of the Yiff ME thread.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

i thought they were on an aircraft carrier for a sec

― goole, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Please refer to the AAD Rough Guide to the Infernal Regions where all relevant information on this subject can be found.

― Aimless, Friday, 7 November 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q29q1-uz70&feature=related

― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

A good friend has a long piece in the Guardian today about how hell has changed over the years:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/26/-sp-my-life-in-hell

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 20:17 (eleven years ago)

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