11-22-2017, 12:14 PM
(11-22-2017, 12:56 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-21-2017, 09:05 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote:(11-20-2017, 07:18 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Great news! Murderous cult leader Charles Manson is dead!You have to acknowledge that there is the possibility that Manson went someplace other than the lake of fire.
Bad news -- he lived to a thoroughly rotten old age. Demonic cult leader Charles Manson gets to be with his buddy Satan forever. In orange, depicting the heat of the place in which he now lives. A place that makes brutally-hot Kern County, California summers seem downright chilly by contrast.
Like no where, since there is no concrete evidence of an afterlife? That being said, I'm glad that Charles Manson is wormfood. Maybe people can shut the hell up about a failed hippy cult leader who stopped being interesting 10 years before I was born.
It's simply attractive and comforting. You may be happy that Charles Manson and Salvatore Riina (gangster) have become worm-food, but there are some people listed in this Forum that I wish were not worm-food yet. Of course we know that people in their eighties (like those two monsters, but also Della Reese and Mel Tillis), let alone people around age 100 (Bobby Doerr and Franciszek Kornicki) are living close to the reasonable limit under the best circumstances. Jana Novotna? Cancer at 48? How unfortunate.
We live in a terribly-flawed world, and an Afterlife might make some things right. You know -- poverty, persecutions, crime, industrial accidents, gross exploitation, children with horrible diseases... It is far less convincing to tell what Heaven is like because of the differing values of culture. For me it might be a composite of a Chautauqua and dude ranch at the beach in a place with a climate like that of San Diego. I would get an offer that I could not reasonably refuse (get my youth back, complete with my old figure and original teeth, and no Asperger's). For someone like Salvatore Riina... just re-read Dante's Inferno and decide which circle of Hell he belongs in.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.