Heaven, Hell and Hamlet
Remember those SAT analogy questions? 1.) BIRD : NEST as... (A) dog : doghouse (B) squirrel : tree (C) beaver : dam (D) cat : litter box (E) book : library I hated those questions. Though I was young, I knew in my bones that WORDS : ANALOGY as CUCUMBERS : MUSIC. With that in mind... Been noticing a lot of chatter on the Heaven/Hell issue lately. Since I'm sitting around with not much to do, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. HEAT : COLD as LIGHT : DARKNESS. and COLD : REALITY as DARKNESS : REALITY as UNICORN : REALITY That is, "cold" and "darkness" are not actual states of being. They don't, in a sense, exist. They are states of nothingness. "Cold" is simply the absence of "Heat," and Heat is simply the energization of lifelessness. "Darkness" is simply the absence of "Light," and Light is simply the energization of emptiness. Not everything has an opposite. Take Love, for instance. You know, agape ? I used to th...