The idea of Hell never made much sense to me. Burning fires, lakes of lava, torment of food and drink, physical tortures… and I can’t mention the sexual aspects. The part I don’t understand – you’re dead. I mean… the body no longer functions… that is what living was all about. All of the things people describe as Hell is all the stuff we have lived through or have lived in fear. But the moment you die those things go with the body. So… they would have no effect except the previous built-up fears. Either Hell is something completely different than our Forefathers could think up… or Hell does not exist.
Dad gave me some “fat free” cheese slices 5 years ago. They’re still in the fridge looking like the day I put them in there. I’m afraid to put them in the garbage in case they should go into hazardous waste.
Hell is eternity (24/7 x FOREVER) standing (standing!) around singing Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna with a bunch of people who couldn’t carry a tune in a paper bag. No coffee breaks. No buffet. To a Supreme Being who only wants praise? (That sounds too familiar). All those pictures of people romping around on clouds with wings? PR.
I see bones and a skull. So, you’re dead, you’ve gone to Hell . . . and then you starve to death? Then come back around to Hell? Think I’ll go watch “Groundhog Day,” it’s perfect for the times.
My idea of a Heavenly buffet, is lots of pssta, bread, potato dishes, hamburgers, chicken, French onion soup, and every dessert imaginable. You don’t get fat no matter how much you eat!
it’s all in the mind….and was brainwashed into minds a long, long time ago as a control by humans over humans…don’t see how it’s any more depressing than the real ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust, get where you’re going by eternal combustion’…the only afterlife is the generations coming after you…Mother Nature designed it that way
I once made a fat-free, gluten-free, tofu cake for friends. Everyone said how much they liked it; no one asked for a second piece (even though it was loaded with sugar).
Alternate gag: Keep the same image (the guys are naked), except now it’s a wonder all-you-can-eat buffet with all the finest gluttonery ever imagined. But the sign reads “NO SHOES, NO SHIRTS, NO SERVICE”.
Neither the concept of heaven or hell make sense to me. You die, and somehow your soul – whatever that is that makes you ‘you’ – is still conscious and able to feel pain? Or, if you go to heaven, you… what? For all eternity? If my soul can still feel, then it can feel boredom.
No worries, heaven and hell are both made up constructs to scare the gullible and control the fearful.
My one near death experience was simply nothing… one moment I was experiencing the crash and the next I was waking up in the middle of the desert I had crashed into… no lights, no other signs, just nothing, no experience at all. Far too many people are so scared of death that they have to make up something that makes it something to look forward too. As @Kveldulf said earlier in these same comments — “What happens to a person after death? Same as happens to a mosquito after swatting.”
I would never admit to anyone that I was so ignorant as to believe in any of that malarkey about heaven or hell or gods or devils or that I worshiped a device of agonizing torture as a symbol for a religion. Such death cults are an abomination and deserve to be mocked for the foolishness that they are.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 4 years ago
A Vegan Paradise , indeed .
Vilyehm over 4 years ago
Remember your German:
Geh zum tofu.
eastern.woods.metal over 4 years ago
They may have come in obese but they won’t stay that way
Enter.Name.Here over 4 years ago
You may find yourself WISHING it was Tofu. Down there you probably “eat what you excrete”. YUCK!
Hey, if LIFE is hell, then what is Hell?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago
On the up side, they’ll be destroyed by the lava before they reach the buffet.
Superfrog over 4 years ago
On a clear day you can soy forever.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
Not much imagination compared to those old time preachers.
jmworacle over 4 years ago
And rice cakes, don’t forget the rice cakes.
Bryan Farht over 4 years ago
A bonus level when you die? Even in games, you still have to be alive before you can go to the next level.
I Mad Am I over 4 years ago
The idea of Hell never made much sense to me. Burning fires, lakes of lava, torment of food and drink, physical tortures… and I can’t mention the sexual aspects. The part I don’t understand – you’re dead. I mean… the body no longer functions… that is what living was all about. All of the things people describe as Hell is all the stuff we have lived through or have lived in fear. But the moment you die those things go with the body. So… they would have no effect except the previous built-up fears. Either Hell is something completely different than our Forefathers could think up… or Hell does not exist.
mattro65 over 4 years ago
I’ll go with the idea of hell being superstitious nonsense.
eastern.woods.metal over 4 years ago
Dad gave me some “fat free” cheese slices 5 years ago. They’re still in the fridge looking like the day I put them in there. I’m afraid to put them in the garbage in case they should go into hazardous waste.
Say What? Premium Member over 4 years ago
Burn fat like a champion, and watch those pounds melt away!
willispate over 4 years ago
I’d rather be sent to Oblivion, then eat what’s on the Menu!
enigmamz over 4 years ago
Remember to “Kiss The Cook”!
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
if tofu isn’t to your taste you can help yourself to all the oatmeal you like…
PleaseStay6PixelsAway over 4 years ago
This is why I’m eating all the cheeseburgers and desserts that I can stuff in now.
backyardcowboy over 4 years ago
It’ll be good for their cholesterol. that’ s what probably got them in heck in the first place. “Tripple Decker Heart Stopper.”
mwest over 4 years ago
I bet the buffet in Hell doesn’t have sneeze guards, either!
Pickled Pete over 4 years ago
I fear if I have the audacity to question the existence of hell, I may be sent there just to get the answer..
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Oh Good. It doesn’t mention kale.
Dobby53 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Hell is eternity (24/7 x FOREVER) standing (standing!) around singing Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna with a bunch of people who couldn’t carry a tune in a paper bag. No coffee breaks. No buffet. To a Supreme Being who only wants praise? (That sounds too familiar). All those pictures of people romping around on clouds with wings? PR.
Jeffin Premium Member over 4 years ago
There’s no foo like a tofu.
rlaker22j over 4 years ago
you all just keep on thinking that with your small metaphysical minds, good luck
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago
It can’t be all that bad. I don’t see kale on the menu. Imagine what the flatulence would do with all that fire around.
sixam over 4 years ago
On the bright side, at least it’s not low sodium.
Whatcouldgowrong over 4 years ago
I see bones and a skull. So, you’re dead, you’ve gone to Hell . . . and then you starve to death? Then come back around to Hell? Think I’ll go watch “Groundhog Day,” it’s perfect for the times.
HopeL over 4 years ago
It would be hell for me, I can’t have soy (tofu)
SusieB over 4 years ago
My idea of a Heavenly buffet, is lots of pssta, bread, potato dishes, hamburgers, chicken, French onion soup, and every dessert imaginable. You don’t get fat no matter how much you eat!
dflak over 4 years ago
My wife is a nurse, she likes to cook and she’s a good cook. I think our marriage is based on the principle, “She likes to cook; I like to eat.”
She can make the good stuff taste good. We eat healthy. My issue is not with eating too much bad stuff, it’s with eating too much good stuff.
FredWaiss over 4 years ago
If you want to read a really good sf novel that gives a new view on both of those places, read “Job: A Comedy of Justice” by Robert Heinlein.
Herb L 1954 over 4 years ago
Good to see Drumpf,and Steven Miller still have jobs ;(
edstephens74 over 4 years ago
Great, finally find a Celiac friendly buffet and everything is made of tofu
Impact55 over 4 years ago
Aww hell.
Buckeye67 over 4 years ago
Thanks to Covid, it will be a very long time before we see buffets again.
VickiP123 over 4 years ago
it’s all in the mind….and was brainwashed into minds a long, long time ago as a control by humans over humans…don’t see how it’s any more depressing than the real ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust, get where you’re going by eternal combustion’…the only afterlife is the generations coming after you…Mother Nature designed it that way
mistercatworks over 4 years ago
I once made a fat-free, gluten-free, tofu cake for friends. Everyone said how much they liked it; no one asked for a second piece (even though it was loaded with sugar).
DCBakerEsq over 4 years ago
So, there’s no cheese?
the lost wizard over 4 years ago
Just think how healthy we’ll be.
Fido (aka Felix Rex) over 4 years ago
Alternate gag: Keep the same image (the guys are naked), except now it’s a wonder all-you-can-eat buffet with all the finest gluttonery ever imagined. But the sign reads “NO SHOES, NO SHIRTS, NO SERVICE”.
locake over 4 years ago
And all the other people will be Vegans and they will make sure you know that every single day.
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
Bet you didn’t think you’d open this can of worms. OR maybe you did.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago
As long as you’re still alive, things can always get worse.
COL Crash over 4 years ago
At least they’re not serving Soylent Green.
vanaals over 4 years ago
But…but…it’s barbecue. An eternal buffet barbecue!
Another Take over 4 years ago
In hell, there’s always the option of eating your neighbor.
scmods2005 over 4 years ago
Neither the concept of heaven or hell make sense to me. You die, and somehow your soul – whatever that is that makes you ‘you’ – is still conscious and able to feel pain? Or, if you go to heaven, you… what? For all eternity? If my soul can still feel, then it can feel boredom.
bakana over 4 years ago
“Anyone who would live on the Rim would go to Hell for a Vacation.”
— Commander John Grimes. [A. Bertram Chandler]
Triker2011 over 4 years ago
And I was thinkin’ to myself, this could be Heaven or this could be Hell…
lordhoff over 4 years ago
Conversely, heaven sounds boring.
theoldidahofox over 4 years ago
The probability that a god exists, let alone one who gives a rat’s ass about humans, is infintely small.
Iwa Iniki over 4 years ago
I love tofu; however, Heavenly Tofu only.
sml7291 Premium Member over 4 years ago
No worries, heaven and hell are both made up constructs to scare the gullible and control the fearful.
My one near death experience was simply nothing… one moment I was experiencing the crash and the next I was waking up in the middle of the desert I had crashed into… no lights, no other signs, just nothing, no experience at all. Far too many people are so scared of death that they have to make up something that makes it something to look forward too. As @Kveldulf said earlier in these same comments — “What happens to a person after death? Same as happens to a mosquito after swatting.”
I would never admit to anyone that I was so ignorant as to believe in any of that malarkey about heaven or hell or gods or devils or that I worshiped a device of agonizing torture as a symbol for a religion. Such death cults are an abomination and deserve to be mocked for the foolishness that they are.
librarian4hire over 4 years ago
Fat-free, gluten-free & made of tofu. Given the right seasonings, I can make a heavenly meal out of that.