So I was thinking…what if we’re all now living in the afterlife. The process of judgment, sorting ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people, and eternal damnation is all over.
This time is like a gazillion years (not human years but divine years) away. What if God puts us—the people in hell — through another test? This is the test where God experiments on the damned. He would like to see whether these pitiful, not dead nor living, sorry excuses for human beings can actually start a civilization and ‘build’ or ‘develop’ hell… of course this is as opposed to how they did not develop Earth.
So, these people do what they do best. They sin. But, this time since they’re put through this test of actually creating their own version of a civilization, they find a way to make use of their ‘sinfulness’. We’re talking lust, wrath, sloth, envy, vanity, gluttony, and greed…all characteristics that now make lots of money, considered very productive, and are used to actually create a sort of destructive economy.
Since these people are self-interested, the only form of conventional ‘good’ that can exist between them is cooperation. This sort of cooperation is a direct result from being self interested, NOT from actually being cooperation (not that they’re not the same, but that’s just my opinion).
This is what I’ve gotten to so far, but it’s nice to just think…what if??
This is just one of my rough ideas and I promise I’ll complete it as soon as I can.
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