Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony

[PEGShane@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/20/2002 12:52:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, yelost1@hotmail.com writes:


> hell of suicides, boy we sure do like to think of hell in a very catholic 
> way don't we.  it was my view that there is no hell, the is just the 
> deadlands, the rotting roots of the tree of the afterlife, and that is where 
> the bad people go when they die cause they don't go to heaven where the 
> angels fly.  very donte type view on things Mr.. black.



Hell of Suicides is far more interesting creatively and horrifically than anything atheistic.

> it was also my conception, but i might be wrong, that the next world applied 
> to everyone in deadlands it just took on the appropriate background for the 
> persons belief, if it even does that.  no hold on here is the kicker.  in 
> many cultures suicide is an acceptable way to end one's own life, so how do 
> we know there is a hell of suicides, granted if Mrs.. Hellstrom was in hell 
> then she would be somewhere but i doubt there would be a guarantee that she 
> would be in the same place twice.  stop thinking with western mindset, not 
> that your wrong to do so i do it all the time.  in the case of the afterlife 
> im not sure if there is a right belief in the deadlands system.

Maybe there's only a Hell of Suicides for those who believe its a sin. .. 

There is definitely not a *right* belief in DL, except that "good" people go to good places (The Happy Hunting Grounds), while the rest. . .

Shane