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And... why there is no Heaven, actually?

No, seriously. Of course "I prefer Hell for the company"... but how come there is no Heaven at all in Glitch?

Posted 6 months ago by Ayzad Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • The Giants imagined there being no heaven.
    They found it was easy when they tried.
    Posted 6 months ago by Joan Holloway Subscriber! | Permalink
  • none of us are good enough ;)
    Posted 6 months ago by phelps.mike Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ur is good enough. We don't need no heaven :)
    Posted 6 months ago by natsumi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Anya Jenkins :D
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • summers day?
    Posted 6 months ago by jiva Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anya's answer is perfect. 
    Posted 6 months ago by Candy Warhol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think they imagined only Ur originally as utopia. The giants themselves may have not even imagined hell at all. Could have been Trisor. But now that the rook has invaded Ur and made it less of a utopia, maybe the giants have a reason to imagine something better now.
    Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I imagine heaven is where all the giants live, and it is where all the released cubies go!
    Posted 6 months ago by ~Kaydee~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Heaven as a socio-political construct is a tool that is used to deter people from pursuing what they want in the here-and-now.  
    Posted 6 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Anya Jenkins
    Posted 6 months ago by Rowan Croft Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe Ur is heaven!
    Posted 6 months ago by Finley Linker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I believe jiva AND Anya are right. Maybe there Summer's Day was supposed to be Heaven, but then it was forgotten over time, and then the Giants' didn't want to remember it until now.
    Posted 6 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Walruz
    Posted 6 months ago by DUG1138 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Because you're a sinner?  I go to heaven every time I die.

    /pure as the driven snow
    Posted 6 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Anya Jenkins- That is so ftw!
    Posted 6 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Because your firefly cubimal plotted against you.
    Posted 6 months ago by OMG BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Muncey " I think they imagined only Ur originally as utopia."

    erm...since when is hell part of utopia?
    Posted 6 months ago by Woochi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Isn't heaven a monotheistic concept?
    And aren't the Giants more like a pantheon?
    And what about Valhalla?
    After all, we fell in battle against....making plain crystals. Or cheese. Or ingots. Or just chatting on Global. Mighty warriors we.
    Posted 6 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Woochi -  I mean to say; I think Ur was meant as Utopia, and Hell didn't exist, at the time of the first imagining. Maybe Hell was imagined later for a certain reason. Or demagined, haha.
    Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not the heaven I've been to

    It's the best place EVA
    Posted 6 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like that this Hell seems to follow the ancient Greek model of the underworld - good or bad, everyone ends up there. It's not so much punishment (especially since Glitch death is only temporary) as it is just a thing that everybody has to deal with.
    Posted 6 months ago by HeyHeyHolly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • With all the recent Latin references and other  tells in game, I'd say they were adherents to a Roman world view, rather than Greek, small as that distinction is (Rome's military and use of various forms of subjugation to control the masses, it's single most prevalent contribution to the world...if one can call it that, but unparalleled in the Greek system)
    Posted 6 months ago by Woochi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There was a heaven, but current news points to the fact that it now belongs to Larry Ellison. It must have been blocking his view.
    Posted 6 months ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There is no heaven because we are all naughty Glitches.
    Posted 6 months ago by FTW BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Anya Jenkins.

    But yes, where is Cosmaland?
    Posted 6 months ago by Stuv Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Walruz
    Posted 6 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • more +1 Anya Jenkins! You win the Internet today.
    Posted 6 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Muncey 

    I agree.  I too think Ur was originally imagined as perfect, needing no heaven. But somehow it has become a fallen world, (perhaps something to do with the rooks?)  That is why there is a hell. But there is hope because we are still so early in the story. After all, we are still in the land of Ur!
    Posted 6 months ago by Miss Bobbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • because haven has unlimited cubis and the giants don't want to give them up for free!
    Posted 6 months ago by cheese danish king Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Its Plexus, Obviously.
    Posted 6 months ago by garden⚛gnostic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like HeyHeyHolly's interpretation that it's simply an Underworld that everyone passes into. :-)
    Posted 6 months ago by Becky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Anya winz teh internets forum.
    Posted 6 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hell was only created when Clopunny committed the first murder when he killed his other half - Trisor.  The Utopia of Ur fell, and Rook is only attacking us because he is pissed off and wants his Giant (Trisor) back.
    Posted 6 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Based on ruins within hell like the old shrines and a lone door standing by itself, I think hell is made up of old realities imagined by the Giants that were later destroyed, to be buried as new realities were imagined on top of them, the latest of which is our current beloved Ur. It has been hinted in various places that the giants fought among themselves in these earlier realities, destroying eachother's work out of anger and ripping the worlds apart. So hell is just the dark past that the Giants would prefer to forget.
    Posted 6 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oohh, +1 Shepherdmoon! I like that!
    Posted 6 months ago by Fernstream Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cool Shepherdmoon. I'm gonna go with that one:)
    Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But, Glitchen, don't you know? I'm sure
    that Heaven is a place in Ur...
    Posted 6 months ago by Verea Subscriber! | Permalink