From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 1998 - 10:02:42 MST
Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin wrote:
> > From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
>
>
> > In discussions like this it is always fun to ask why people are
> > attracted to the western religions with their promises of eternal
> > life. If you buy that immortality produces eternal ennui, then heaven
> > must be worse than most conceptions of hell.
>
> Oh, there is more to it than that, if you take the Bible literally.
> The description in Revelations (if I remember correctly) of how well
> illuminated Heaven is, can be fed into some fairly standard
> calculations. And the conclusion that is compelled is that Hell
> absolutely must be *much* cooler -- because sulfur is a liquid, not a
> vapor.
So its not a dry heat? Seriously, molten sodium is not a room temperature
experience.
>
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