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As usual, it must be warned that living forever means you can be tortured forever. Interesting that an article on Dante is getting upvotes today...
by kerblang 2y ago
As usual, it must be warned that living forever means you can be tortured forever. Interesting that an article on Dante is getting upvotes today...
- m3kw9 2y agoYep even a life sustaining brain vat that keeps you alive for 1000 years while feeding you some bad stimulation is not very hard to fathom
- Ekaros 2y agoEven worse no stimulation... And with enough trickery maybe avoid your brain going to coma or even sleep.
- portaouflop 2y agoDon’t threaten me with a good time!
- latexr 2y agoEternal life doesn’t necessarily mean being impervious to harm. If you live indeterminably because your flesh brain was preserved or there’s a digital copy of you on a hard drive, a simple drop on the floor could terminate your existence. And if we’re talking about fiction, there’s no obligation to make those lives unbearably immortal either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlcxokM970M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlcxokM970M > Our flesh is indestructible. Our lives are never ending. But not even in the dumb vampire way where after a while you hate it and you can’t die. We can die whenever we want. We just don’t have to.
- jaco6 2y agoCatholic theology actually justifies the belief in Hell by arguing that an eternity of suffering in Hell is a blessing, because it admits the one benefit of existence itself, while total annihilation has no redeeming factors whatsoever.
- kelnos 2y agoI was raised Catholic and it's stuff like this that turned me into an atheist.
- matj1 2y agoWhat is the source of that information?
- wqaatwt 2y agoThe existence of hell as a place as opposed to a “state of mind” isn’t really that well established in Catholic doctrine. Not after Vatican II anyway.