You create an utterly fantastic, sadistic fantasy of hell (for which there is no conceivable evidence you could offer since it is a non-falsifiable hypothesis), where everyone who doesn't believe and think precisely as you do are eternally tortured (it hardly matters if you remove the Biblical references to fire--how can you possibly believe in something like hell, it is so monstrous it is hardly conceivable!). Why exactly in the first place would you want such a falsehood to be true, except you derived pleasure from fantasizing your neighbors being so punished? And then of course, you do yourselves the enormous favor of granting yourselves the power of saving the innocent from such punishment by persuading them to think and believe precisely as you do. That must make you feel good about yourselves.
How could you think that I considered these women physically dangerous? O'Brien was physically dangerous. It is really no surprise that after prolonged torture, he was able to induce Winston to say, 'Do it to Julia!' But to want, under no compulsion, to surrender your freedom to groupthink, to pretend that it is a virtue,that is dangerous.
"Nice post thank you for sharing that with us?" Doesn't irony like that violate the ninth commandment? By the way, which other literary tropes are forbidden by Biblical law?
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Re: We dont belive in a hell that you burn in...
Date: 2010-03-23 11:57 pm (UTC)You create an utterly fantastic, sadistic fantasy of hell (for which there is no conceivable evidence you could offer since it is a non-falsifiable hypothesis), where everyone who doesn't believe and think precisely as you do are eternally tortured (it hardly matters if you remove the Biblical references to fire--how can you possibly believe in something like hell, it is so monstrous it is hardly conceivable!). Why exactly in the first place would you want such a falsehood to be true, except you derived pleasure from fantasizing your neighbors being so punished? And then of course, you do yourselves the enormous favor of granting yourselves the power of saving the innocent from such punishment by persuading them to think and believe precisely as you do. That must make you feel good about yourselves.
How could you think that I considered these women physically dangerous? O'Brien was physically dangerous. It is really no surprise that after prolonged torture, he was able to induce Winston to say, 'Do it to Julia!' But to want, under no compulsion, to surrender your freedom to groupthink, to pretend that it is a virtue,that is dangerous.
"Nice post thank you for sharing that with us?" Doesn't irony like that violate the ninth commandment? By the way, which other literary tropes are forbidden by Biblical law?