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From: ddw@cornell.UUCP
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Subject: Heaven and Hell
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Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 14:32:28 EDT
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From: ddw (David Wright)
To: net-religion

We've been getting a fair amount of discussion on resurrection, life after
death, and suchlike topics lately, but most of the descriptions of Hell seem
rather uninspired.  Okay, those who don't make the cut get cast into the
lake of burning brimstone for Eternity, or something like that.  I have a
much more fiendish alternative:  those who don't make the cut are stuck
forever at a terminal with no 'n' key that prints nothing but Bible-thumping
net.religion articles full of logical fallacies but you can't reply to them
because your mailer is broken.  (I know, it's a run-on sentence, but it's
the effect I was trying for.)

One other comment:  we had a discussion here a while back about how, thermo-
dynamically, Heaven should be hotter than Hell.  I think I have the solution:
Heaven is air-conditioned, the waste heat is vented to hell with some losses
that form background radiation in the universe.

                           With tongue firmly in cheek,

                                 David Wright

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