I just asked Siri to show me Hell on a map and it pulled up a map with a pulsing dot at my location, we are having oatmeal and coffee in Hell this morning.
I used to live about 150 miles from hell. Hell, Michigan, that is ... a little unincorporated town north of Ann Arbor. I always enjoyed the annual headline every year when it would hit 32 degrees F: HELL FREEZES OVER.
Maybe we should all move there and make a statement!
If I had to go to Hell, I would really like to go Dante's Limbo, where all the old Greek philosophers walk around all day discussing interesting topics - a bit like here, only forever. Technically, I suppose Limbo isn't exactly in Hell. It's a kind of ante-chamber. In Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Mephistopheles claims he is in Hell even as himself and Faust discuss (dispute) the big questions of life and death:
Meph. But, Faustus, I am an instance to prove the contrary (the pain of Hell),
For I am damned, and am now in hell.
Faust. How! now in hell!
Nay, an this be hell, Iβll willingly be damnβd here;
What? walking, disputing, &c.?
That sounds a lot more interesting than Heaven.
Maybe there is more truth to Rickyβs quote then we know... perhaps we all have a personal god.
Many theists like to say, "everyone worships something, even if it's only himself". This faux wisdom is a product of their own lack of imagination. They are so used to the notion that they must / should worship that they can't imagine living without groveling before some god or god-proxy. How sad that they don't understand what intellectual freedom is anymore. To the point that they think worship is an inherent human need.
Thatβs ok. All the interesting people will be there.