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Who You Working For Dumbass? [1]

['Greg Dworkin', 'Aspiring Polymath', 'Bill In Portland Maine', 'Rob In Vermont']

Date: 2026-06-29  

What is hell if not hate institutionalized?

I’ve never heard a rumor, or even a whisper, that the denizens of hell are happy to be there; enjoying the mild temperatures, partying every night or got a really good deal from their travel agent. Have you?

To all those self-righteous holier-than-thou types, unless I’m missing something major (which I must be to be critical of the god-in-my-pocket folks), the connection between hate and hell seems to have blurred somewhat. Here I have been sliding through life under the (mistaken?) impression that the message is ‘do unto others as you have them do unto you’. Must be a pretty big fudge factor in that or so many people who nurse their hate like new born child wouldn’t spend time piously telling god how the run things, asking for favors or being ‘saved’ from everything but themselves.

The whole ‘saved’ business is a bit challenging for a simple man like myself. Professional clergy tell us we need them to be saved. Why not, after all its their rice bowl. How are you going to be saved without their say so.

Paid semi-pro influence’s get to laugh in contempt at those dumb enough to buy whatever they’re pitching (and pay for it, of course. It’s amazing what a couple hundred bucks will do for your chances in the entry to bliss draft). Everyone needs an agent, right? Or is being saved like cutting out the spoiled part of an apple and eating the rest? Having your rotten parts ‘forgiven’ doesn’t mean they won’t tip the scales when it comes to a package deal.

I’m sorry, people, if the only way something can be real is if you believe it to be, it very likely isn’t. Don’t abandon faith. Hoping (praying) for the best while expecting the worst doesn’t give the warm glow that earnest advice to the omni-dude does, but it does prevent one from being manipulated by the merchants of hate who prey on hope and the willing suspension of disbelief of the committed devotee. Don’t be used, that’s all I’m saying.

If you already paid to have your ticket punched, you can behave anyway you want to the rest of the time, right? The hubris this sort of attitude fluoresces makes me nervous, especially when I standing next to the sure and pure.

What is hate if not the license of hell?

So go ahead haters. Knock yourselves out. Because it doesn’t matter who or what the object of your hate is. What counts is who you’re really working for.

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