'Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven'

[Oeditpus Rex]

Discuss.

:popcorn:

[Heidi]

1. As a believer in neither heaven nor hell,

I'd have to disagree.

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I love the way you employ logic

:thumbsup:

[Heidi]

3. I love the way you employ

your excellent wrists. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Oh, sure

I start a thread that combines philosophy and theology, and all you can do is ogle my limbs. :eyes:

[Heidi]

11. Sorry.

So, how about that Wittgenstein? Was Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus really somethin', or what?

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Wittgenstein?

Feh — a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

[Heidi]

15. I prefer Hegel

to Schlegel. :) But I've seen _your_ wrists, so you win.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Well, y'know...

David Hume could out-consume Schopenauer and Hegel.

[Heidi]

20. So what?

The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger can eat his weight in deli roastbeef. Everyone has a talent. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Hey, I've had a tough day

All I can do at this point is quote Monty Python.

[Heidi]

24. Does that smiley have

a Band-aid on his butt? :rofl: :spray:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. M'gosh, I believe he does

Nice catch. Visual journalism, huh? :thumbsup:

[Spider Jerusalem]

31. Whereof one does not know, thereof one should not speak.

Be nice if more people paid attention to that, eh? It'd do wonders for the signal-to-noise ratio of most discourse.

[Heidi]

34. You obviously have mistaken this thread

for discourse. :P

[Spider Jerusalem]

36. No, I wouldn't make that mistake (this IS the lounge, after all)...

:D

[Heidi]

38. .

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Well, duh, all the cool kids are in hell anyway.

LynneSin said so. I'm doomed because I eat a lot of shellfish and I'm a homosexual, so I might as well do whatever I want anyway.

[Heidi]

6. Homosexuals in hell?

Oh my gay stars! <---- Thanks to arwalden for one of the absolute best phrases I've seen on DU.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. Yep, although personally, I feel the Bible is wrong about that.

[Burma Jones]

49. Well, the restaurants will be better in Hell......

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. You eat a lot of shellfish??

And I asSOciate with you??

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Yup, especially during the summer when I spend time in CT.

Digging fresh clams everyday. Lobsters that my stepdad gets scuba diving, etc. It's awesome. It's balanced out though with stripers, bluefish, and fluke from our morning's catch. Yeah, I pretty much live off fresh fish when I stay there.

[Random_Australian]

5. Actually, um, YES. I can think of no worse thing than bieng in paradise

while others suffered! I would just have to go to Hell to convert Satan to a nice and reasonable bieng.

No, honestly. I can't sit by while others are tortured. See if I don't make a damned good effort to remove it from this world too. :mad: :grr:

[Heidi]

7. .

:hug: You seem to have caught on to the importance of love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity at a young age, my friend. :thumbsup:

[Random_Australian]

13. Thankyou miss moonbeams!

(As per morning crew thread yesterday)

And may I complement you on your lovely lovely hug? And what's more, backatcha! :hug::pals:

Remember, love is not like salt, the more you give the more you have! (And I meant that in a purely 'frat'ernal way)

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Want some practice?

You could start in Washington, D.C. :patriot:

[Random_Australian]

17. I've not the power. I am practicing though, both here and in yahoo answers

:)

Practicing understanding even people with views diametrically opposed to mine. :) Once I do that, I need but one more ingredient to become a real someone. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Facial hair?

:shrug:

[Heidi]

21. !!!!!!!

:rofl: :spray:

Now you be nice to R_A. Bless his hoart, he's a nice young man.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Meh

He's an accordianist. :P

[Heidi]

25. It's OK.

I won't make you spell it out. ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Oh, that part's easy

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume Schopenauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothin' Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, drank half a pint of Shandy, was particularly ill
Plato, they say, could stick it away — half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle; Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore, I am"

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed

[Random_Australian]

26. No, power :)

We don't need no education!
We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom!
Teacher leave themkids alone!
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone!

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all your just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education!
We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom!
Teachers leave those kids alone.

Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!

All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

(I typed that as I was listening to P Floyd, so I typed what they said. Pretty fast huh?)

[Dangerously Amused]

35. I'v never heard the thought of being in Heaven expressed that way before.

I am impressed. You continue to amaze me, young man.


:hug:



P.S. I'm really glad you're back. I maybe... might have... missed you... a little. :blush:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

42. Nor could I, but the entire basis of this poll defies what the bible says

anyway (granted, I couldn't get past the first book :P), so I guess I like your answer best (about converting satan). Although, as I said in another post, if this is the Christian god, I don't know if I would want to serve someone who was willing to send me to hell if I didn't read their book.

[LisaLynne]

43. But here's what I don't get ...

Satan is opposed to God, right? You got to hell for breaking God's laws, right? Well, why would Satan be mean to you? You're on the same side! I think it's just one big old party down there, personally.

[NMMNG]

28. Better to be in hell than in heaven with the fundies.

Not that I believe in heaven or hell, I'm just playing for the purposes of the thread.

[LaurenG]

30. I haven't read the whole thread but you seem to be talking

about Bush and he's brought his hell to earth!

[Fox Mulder]

32. True dat.

But I don't believe in Heaven or Hell...so yeah.

[Mutley]

33. If I believed in either one, I'd agree.

:7

[Deep13]

37. Rather just be me and not serve or reign.

ya' know?

[Shell Beau]

39. Nah!! That's just hogwash!

:P

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

40. Well, assuming you believe in Heaven and Hell, than I would have

to say reigning in Hell. I say this because I don't really want to be serving any 'god' that is willing to send me to Hell, just because I didn't read his book.

[Shell Beau]

41. Come on now! You don't have to call it a comic book!

You don't have to believe it, read it, or give two shits about it, but the Bible is something that a lot of us hold in high regard. No need to belittle something I and lots of others hold dear.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

45. That's true, it was callous of me.

I apologise.

[Shell Beau]

46. Thank you!

:pals:

[Deja Q]

44. I like to serve. And Heaven sounds preferable to Hell.

:)

[RedCloud]

47. Some folks can't wait to get on their knees and worship...

Sounds like they don't know what's in store for them.

[Burma Jones]

48. Milton - Paradise Lost

a long and, to me, tedious poem.......

I point out the corollary:

A Big Fish in a Small Pond


or:


Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

[cemaphonic]

50. or better yet...

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

[Burma Jones]

51. hear hear

[Jokerman]

52. "Heaven doesn't want me and Hell is afraid I'll take over."

My mom, a pro-choice Catholic and active democrat, carried a key chain with that phrase engraved on it for years.