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Dorian Gray

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Wed Jun-07-06 10:27 AM
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37. Hell is more of a theological/philosophical

construct in my opinion. It's not a physical place, but an absence of God's love found through the personal rejection of His love. So, if I denied God, I would be Nothing. It's a sort of Nothingness.

I find the Faustian and the Dostoevskian philosophies to be quite apt, actually. Of course, I have no way to prove this belief, but I don't believe in fire and brimstone so much. More of an empty absence. A spiritual malaise. A melancholic nothingness.

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