I think he’s referring here to the Gehenna of the Bible, which is fiery…
In the inferno, Satan is stuck between blocks of ice…glacial cold…
which is the Scandinavian version of the deep – hel.
Ah, Lila don;t let quibling obscure the main point. I see the THD post and I think how quibling over details that have no bearing on the key point or crucial aspect of an arugument, program or policy is a sort of cognitive impediment! This sort of thinking and fixation frequently is what hijaks rational discussion and or understanding the world. So just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin anyway?
Who cares if the straw in the handbasket to hell is blue, red or a mix of grass and hemp? What does it matter if hell is cold, hot, humid or full of mutual fund salesmen and local televsion news personalities?
The point is that those who do nothing in times of crisis will be dealt a harsh hand….Either by having the brutish life of people with no ethical basis sufficient to propel them to action–i.e. life of a coward…What if not hellish (cold, hot or listening to the speeches of Hillary Clinton) is a pointless and unprincipled life?
I like the touch about mutual fund salesmen..
do you know the Robert Frost poem?
Fire and Ice?
I’ll blog it..
But I am glad for TD to have made the point, because it makes me want to read up a bit more about the imagery in the Inferno..
and the reason for it.
Makes me think of Revelation 3:15-16, “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!”
I’ve pondered that text many a time.
I never used to like it, finding it very demanding and harsh in tone.
But as I’ve thought it over, I’ve begun to see it less as a pronouncement of judgment as a description of the way life works.
Life (the “I” in the text) rejects people who live without intensity…
If you look around you, you’ll find it’s true.
Success of any kind requires a certain level of intensity..
Good relationships require a certain level of commitment
Nothing is gained by indifference….or tepidity…
Life responds to emotion, desire, intensity, fire…
I’m not sure will I go to Heaven I don’t give alot as far as money or time my husband gives some money, and have done some things. I have done some immoral Things and have not admitted it to people that may have been affected. Will Heaven not be will I go. I’m so afraid of what my husband thinks. I have not gone out on him and never tried to hurt him but during a 5th grade religion class I was tapping the child leg with my leg. My husband was there during the class as a teacher aid. What should I do? Please let me know. I would Love to See The Glory of God, and I may be short of it . Let me know. I do not know if the child was affected? I am a Catholic, do I need to go to comfession
If I remember correctly, Dante’s hell was a very cold place, so I guess those neutral types are the lucky ones (in hell, anyway).
I think he’s referring here to the Gehenna of the Bible, which is fiery…
In the inferno, Satan is stuck between blocks of ice…glacial cold…
which is the Scandinavian version of the deep – hel.
Ah, Lila don;t let quibling obscure the main point. I see the THD post and I think how quibling over details that have no bearing on the key point or crucial aspect of an arugument, program or policy is a sort of cognitive impediment! This sort of thinking and fixation frequently is what hijaks rational discussion and or understanding the world. So just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin anyway?
Who cares if the straw in the handbasket to hell is blue, red or a mix of grass and hemp? What does it matter if hell is cold, hot, humid or full of mutual fund salesmen and local televsion news personalities?
The point is that those who do nothing in times of crisis will be dealt a harsh hand….Either by having the brutish life of people with no ethical basis sufficient to propel them to action–i.e. life of a coward…What if not hellish (cold, hot or listening to the speeches of Hillary Clinton) is a pointless and unprincipled life?
R –
nice comment…
I like the touch about mutual fund salesmen..
do you know the Robert Frost poem?
Fire and Ice?
I’ll blog it..
But I am glad for TD to have made the point, because it makes me want to read up a bit more about the imagery in the Inferno..
and the reason for it.
Makes me think of Revelation 3:15-16, “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!”
I’ve pondered that text many a time.
I never used to like it, finding it very demanding and harsh in tone.
But as I’ve thought it over, I’ve begun to see it less as a pronouncement of judgment as a description of the way life works.
Life (the “I” in the text) rejects people who live without intensity…
If you look around you, you’ll find it’s true.
Success of any kind requires a certain level of intensity..
Good relationships require a certain level of commitment
Nothing is gained by indifference….or tepidity…
Life responds to emotion, desire, intensity, fire…
I’m not sure will I go to Heaven I don’t give alot as far as money or time my husband gives some money, and have done some things. I have done some immoral Things and have not admitted it to people that may have been affected. Will Heaven not be will I go. I’m so afraid of what my husband thinks. I have not gone out on him and never tried to hurt him but during a 5th grade religion class I was tapping the child leg with my leg. My husband was there during the class as a teacher aid. What should I do? Please let me know. I would Love to See The Glory of God, and I may be short of it . Let me know. I do not know if the child was affected? I am a Catholic, do I need to go to comfession