My question is: can hell and heaven be the same place? — TheMadFool
What difference does location make when determining if you're receiving eternal pleasure or pain? If you're having an orgy in your bed on Monday and being beaten mercilessly in that same bed on Tuesday, your heaven and hell, so to speak, occurred in the same place. — Hanover
But...an orgy is different from a beating. One is clearly reward-like and the other is clearly a punishment. In the joke, the same thing, companionship, is both a punishment AND a reward. — TheMadFool
The heaven and hell in both examples and in all examples will be the subjective interpretation of the person experiencing the event. Theoretically, the orgy could be someone's punishment and the beating someone's pleasure. — Hanover
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