My own metaphysics posit that the good go to heaven, no matter their metaphysics, and the evil to hell of some sort.
As I visualize it, hell is a version of the monkey trap. In this trap, used throughout Asia, in my understanding, something desirable to the monkey is placed at the bottom of a bottle, which itself is tied to the ground. The opening to the bottle is big enough to let through an open hand, but not a fist.
The monkey grabs the whatever–for stereotype’s sake lets say a banana–and refuses to let go. Since it won’t let go, it is easily captured.
As I define it, this is the sort of desire that is damaging.
Hell, then, is a repeated happening that arises out of the unresolved compulsions of the person there. What I want to emphasize is that the goal is NOT punishment, but learning. Yet to the precise extent that person refuses, over and over, learning, the system IS punishment.
Hitler: he finds himself as a young boy–say 11–in a Yeshiva School. Whenever he reads the Torah, it is upside down, and backwards. They give him tests, and he flunks every one. Then he gets held back.
The next year, the same thing happens. This goes on for 1,000 years at least.
In his real life, he never got a high school diploma. How much more traumatic to be held up in a Yeshiva?
Jean Paul Sartre. I really don’t like this guy, since he was a piece of shit. He was a Stalinist long after it was known what that meant, a misogynist, philanderer, and Speed Freak. Given what he thought was his genius, I see him in a classroom, too. He is expected to listen, essentially forever, to a dull, unoriginal teacher, who misunderstands everything he said. Yet he can’t speak, without being punished. This goes on for a 1,000 years.
Stalin I see ice-fishing. He catches something, and it is an enormous fish which swallows him whole, then shits him out. He emerges to cold water, and an inability to breathe. He gets to the surface, then the shore. Once there, he has no options but to put his line in again. Then he gets swallowed again, and it starts over.
Mao is pursued everywhere by a horde of rats. No matter where he goes, or where he tried to sleep, a large group of rats follows him. He can’t rest. He can’t stay in one place. Always he is in flight from the rats. This lasts for 10,000 years.
Pol Pot. I actually find it easier to sympathize with Hitler than this piece of shit. Hitler had his people torture people for information. The National Socialists killed because they, in their idiocy, thought it scientifically necessary.
Pol Pot set up many torture chambers, where people were put through a very systematic pain regimen prior to being shot and their bodies dumped wherever happened to be convenient.
Him, I see hanging upside down from a rope, and people beating his head with bats. This is the most unpleasant vision I’ve had, but if you really get down to it, had Hitler killed proportionately as many people as Pot, then it would have been in the 20-30 million range AT LEAST.
Anyway, I was drinking my nightly Truth Serum, and this is what occurred to me.