Aug. 27th, 2006

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"So, in your opinion, am I going to hell?"

Such a simple little quesiton. So entirely impossible to respond to.
Every time someone asks me this, they seem to be expecting a yes-or-no answer. So, what should I say?

"No, I don't." -I can't say that, because it's absolutely untrue.
"Yes, I do." -Technically accurate, but the cultural context of our conversation means that my answer will inevitably be interpreted as follows:

"Yes, you ARE going to hell! Because you're nasty-wrong-bad, and you have no redeeming features, and God hates you, and I hate you too, and you might as well DIE right now, you good-for-nothing SCUM!"
-which is not what I mean at all.

The problem is, to actually give a real answer, I need maybe ten minutes of discussion - and you can rarely do that at a party.

Really, I need to develop some kind of time freezing device...

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