What if there IS an afterlife?
on August 14, 2018 at 12:01 amI would, over time, get much better at drawing awkward, pained smiles. You gotta show the gums a little, young me.
Also, dang, Joyce. Dang. Also dang, young me, starting to put it all the eff out there.
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Oh Joyce, honey, no.
Joyce this is not a good time to say that Dina won’t go to Heaven because of her beliefs.
Her beliefs notwithstanding, no self-respecting heaven would have someone who would intoxicate a person continuously and against his will in order to keep him romantically interested in her, and not regret anything about it beyond “it didn’t work”. But yes, it isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good time to tell him that.
In the way that “I told you not to call me that” was a good dark sequence for a superhero comic, this was a much more realistic dark turn in a relationship. One you could kinda see happening to a young couple when they had lost a friend.
While I like the former, I do find this one genuinely more interesting.
It’s not bad as far as pained smiles go.
And here we go.
Sorry, you chose the wrong club to be a member of, Dina.
This is one of the major things I have against my OWN religion.
Oh dear, this is gonna be awkward.
I didn’t think that was meant to be an awkward smile but rather that “tsssst” sound you make sucking air through your teeth when you see looming and inevitable catastrophe.
Joyce, I know what’s bouncing around in the inside of your head and, trust me, this is not the time!
Funnily enough, the “afterlife” is not from the Bible, but something Christians came up with much later…
Yes but, unfortunately, it became such a headline dogma that most people wrongly believe it to be a Christian teaching and treat it appropriately in the media.
The Jesus of the Gospels promises eternal life in him. There’s a good chance that at the time he meant “future resurrection” rather than “looking down from Heaven right now”, but it’s still a comfort. Dina, OTOH, would be tossed to the eternal fire, though that needn’t mean eternal punishment as opposed to simple oblivion.
“For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.”
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. ”
“those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation”
Actually, it’s only the LIVING sinners who will get cast down into the flames, and only 44 000 believers who will be ressurected, the rest will simply remain in oblivion.
ooookay.
The number is actually 144,000, and it’s from an obscure passage in Revelation which Jehovah’s Witnesses latched onto and built a theology around.