TheMedianPrinter t1_je2eiyn wrote
Reply to comment by MangoTekNo 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
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.
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!
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.
Fuschiakraken42 t1_je7gutk wrote
Some have suggested...like who?
MangoTekNo t1_je378d6 wrote
Doing that to someone else though, is pure fucking evil.
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