On April 29, I posted an essay on this blog in which I said that eternal torture in Hell was impossible because any mind, even artificial intelligence, would tune out the sensation of pain after it had been going on long enough.
I mentioned this idea to some friends recently, and they immediately rejected my idea. Their objection was, basically, what is there about infinity that you do not understand? While a “mortal” brain suffering in Hell might adjust to one particular kind of suffering relatively soon—say, after a million years or so—God can (and, if fundamentalists had their way, would) create a new kind of suffering, and the process of adaptation would have to begin all over again. This could go on forever, for an infinite God can create an infinite number of ways to torture anyone whom the fundamentalist Christians tell Him to.
So I admit I was wrong.
At least this means that Hell would not have an infinite number of kinds of torture at any “moment” in “time.”
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