Would you rather {[…] religious one, still}
 

Would you rather (in the afterlife) roast in the deepest, hottest furnace of hell fire for ten years and be transcended up to heaven for all-eternity afterward. or linger in purgatory indefinitely? Both instances in this hypothetical situation apply to a person (i.e., in some sort of parallel universe, your very own self) who was either of intermediate morality (as in not handing out candy-apples to kids on the street but not raping or killing them, either) or good/intermediate morality who made the mistake of committing a deadly sin (gluttony-excluded) on the [hypothetical] day of reckoning and had to account for it by at the very least not transcending to up-and-beyond the heavenly clouds straight-up. (I suppose this could’ve been in the Chat & Games section but I honestly couldn’t care less.)

N.B.: I do try and keep a/n fairly accommodating and open tone to my threads (by-and-large) but given the very nature of this thread (i.e., pure hypothetical imaginative musings and not a thread entertaining debate about the existence of God/higher entities in general), comments along the lines of, ‘heaven isn’t real’ can just do one. That’s not what this thread is for.

M’kay?

Hell for 10 years and just think about the 72 virgins I’ll get in heaven.

Would of liked to see the choice of, you die and there is nothing more or you get reincarnated.

Those are good musings, to be fair. I might slot them into another thread-poll (or survey, as good ol. Alf would say) but for now the focus is on (a decade in) hell vs. purgatory.

Purgatory is supposed to be pretty awful, I don't know why you'd want to spend eternity there rather than an eternity in heaven.10 years in hell wouldn't seem like a lot if that's the reward

I suppose but hell fire is supposed to be more unbearable than us “mere mortals” can imagine. I just don’t know if I could actually hack a decade down there rubbing fists with the Devil and burning more and more every second.