What If You Could Do It All Over?

Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by ALittleLight on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:39PM (#25548063)

I feel like this is a huge exaggeration of "hell" or a demeaning of the concept. For example, if you asked me if I'd rather meet my best possible self, or have my arm broken with a bat, it would be a no-brainer. I'm actually pretty curious to meet my best possible self and would probably pay some amount of money to do so, whereas I'd very much prefer to never have my arm broken again. And being hit with a bat is one of the most banal forms of suffering you could imagine.

I get that it is trying to say something abstract, like, you could be a lot better than what you are, but it just sounds so incredibly ignorant of how horrible things could be that it irritates me.

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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by krustyburger on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:51PM (#25548136)

I propose a synthesis: hell is having your arm broken with a baseball bat by the best possible version of yourself.

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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by borroka on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:24PM (#25562296)

It is a sentence that makes no sense whatsoever, but it feels slightly profound and gives a sense of smugness when liked. Similar to the Heinlein's quote about specialization being for insects, which for some reason attracts nerds like catnip attracts cats.

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