A-Z Challenge 08: Hell

Many religions have some kind of Hell-like concept.  Hell is probably at least as important as Heaven and Paradise. Religious leaders need this scary place full of suffering in the mist by the hills to make people stay loyal with their Gods and with their religious authorities. The latter is probably the most important.

Different people have different perceptions of Hell, and I have mine. Hell is a place with geology field trips at day time, black metal concerts in the evening, and … yes, you know what I think of … at night.

Hell is probably a place where it’s easy to sell ice cream.

Hijab is

Haram in

Hell >:D

Signed up for the A-Z Challenge

I signed up for the A-Z Challenge again this year. It's gonna be fun. This year I will go for a theme, but not sure which.

Today, I took a day off from work, and went up to the mountains with little boy and a couple of his buddies. The boys are already out skiing in the snow park, jumping on the big jumps.

I'm sitting in the cafe drinking a cup of fairly good coffee (not the best), and reading some work mail. We have another two days of skiing ahead of us, so I think I will skip the skiing today. I will try to get some work done, and think about a theme for the A-Z Challenge.

I should find a theme which is interesting, and doesn't provoke or offend anyone. No, I think I will reduce my ambition. I'll find a theme which is just interesting. There are som nice options in the sub-heading of my blog:

"about science, mathematics, skiing, drumming, black metal, opera, sex, summer, winter, Heaven and Hell"

Science would be a cool theme, with plenty of topics to write about: astronomy, biology, chemistry, dinosaurs, evolution, Feynman, gravity, Hubble ...

Maybe I should go for mathematics, which also has lots of topics: asymptotic analysis, Banach space, complex numbers, divergence theorem, error function, functions, Gauss distribution, Hilbert space ... Might be fun to write about, but maybe interesting to only a few readers.

Opera could be a cool topic, with posts about Aida, Bizet, Carmen, Donizetti, ...

No, I think I go for the last two options: Heaven and Hell, or some variety of it. Just wait and see till April >:)

(Picture taken today, when I sent little boy and his buddies off in the chair lift)

Going to Hell

The Italian mafia bosses will end up in Hell, unless they stop doing crimes. That's what the Pope has told them, according to the news. (Maybe they will share destiny with the Vatican mafia).

It's pretty rediculous with the Catholics, and the Christians in general. You can be as bad as you want to, if you just remember to pray for forgiveness before you die.

I'm just an atheist, blasphemer and God-mocker, and I'm not gonna ask for forgiveness. I wonder where I will end up >:)

(Another post from my cell phone, written while eating lunch in the ski resort. I took the picture half an hour ago. The snow-covered mountains is my cold Heaven, which can quickly turn to Hell if the weather changes into a blizzard.)

Heaven and Hell

Heaven is a place where
the French are the chefs,
the Italians are the lovers,
the Swiss are the bankers,
the Germans are the engineers,
the English are the police.

Hell is a place where
the English are the chefs,
the Swiss are the lovers,
the Italians are the bankers,
the French are the engineers,
the Germans are the police.

Some funny European stereotypes. I don't know who invented this joke. It wasn't me. I learnt it from a Californian.

If you're a Satanist, you may want to swap Heaven and Hell. That's fine with me >:)

(I took the picture above when we visited Paris three years ago. The big walk-in map of Europe was in the park by the Eiffel Tower. The lines for the lift were endless, so we walked the stairs up the tower. I don't like climbing high, so little boy and I stopped at the first level. Older boy climbed up to the second level. That's the highest you can get by the stairs.)

Twenty minutes in the school band

I was eight years old. The school band had recruitment day. I came early, eager to join the band, I wanted to play drums. The band did not accept new drummers that year. They offered me a trumpet. I left, went straight home. That was my twenty minutes in the school band. I don't want a fucking trumpet, I'm the natural born drummer, the drummer from Hell.