Writer's Block: Back from the dead

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Okay, I'm not actually even going to answer this. I just want to say... hello, Internet, you are funny. Or really not funny. Or something. Or... er, yeah. Anyway.

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[iamradar.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is: "What is this I don't even..." and icon.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...yeah. This is why I was particularly ticked off to see LJ Spotlight talking about the latest Writer's Block questions. Newsflash, LJ: not everyone wants to know about this service, and judging by the responses there are some people who maybe shouldn't be contributing.

...okay, it looks like that was a rogue poster on lj_spotlight, since the post has been deleted.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Well, were I going to answer it, the answer would read as follows:

As an agnostic, mostly what I hope for from the afterlife is a state of complete oblivion without sensation. Accordingly, if I'm right, what I get is a very good sleep, preceded by acute apprehension and succeeded by deep relief.

However, being an agnostic is a condition that admits (indeed, is defined by) doubt. Accordingly, there is a possibility that I am wrong about the afterlife and that what I will experience will not be a complete oblivion without sensation but something corresponding to some version of heaven, hell or purgatory which (being brought up in the tradition in which I have been brought up) implies the presence of either God or the Devil in charge.

Which leads me on to "Who is offering me this free trial, and what's in it for them?"

And since there is no reason in my theology to believe my God (about whose existence I am sceptical) would put such an offer on the table, then the only person likely to be behind such a deal would be the Devil. Aka the Father of Lies.

So all that accepting the offer would do is establish the existence of the Devil, while giving me no useful data.

Of course I'd refuse: what sort of mug does the OP (who may or may not be identified with the Devil) take me for?

Incidentally, is there any chance of anyone looking into the theology of Who at Gallifrey? Some of us are wondering.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, is there any chance of anyone looking into the theology of Who at Gallifrey? Some of us are wondering.

No idea, but a lot of people have been making a lot of noises about various things at least tangental to that lately.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

When I was ten years old, that was my dearest wish. I wanted to KNOW, it frustrated me so deeply that I had no way to find out for sure except for actually dying.

[natf.livejournal.com]

This. Also, as someone of slowly advancing years with a progressive disability, I would love to know what the "point" of my increasingly "hell"-like life is, if there is one.