[Redway]

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?

[UserSince2005]

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

[thesheriff443]

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

[Redway]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

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.

[MTVN]

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

[Redway]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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.