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Conversation with Old Nick

OK. The worst of them I like to interview myself. What was your name below?

ME. You are Old Nick and do not know my name.

OK. I demand respect from all that make the descent into Hell. You do realise who I am or are you lacking in brains or common sense.

ME. That is up to you to judge, I will give no information willingly to a Devil that calls himself Old Nick. I always thought that you went under the name of Lucifer or Nickodaemus. If you are the boss here, what is your real name?

OK. I have many names just listen to the people that use my name no better still go for a walk through Hell and see for yourself. Keep your ears open many are the names that I am called.

Me. Are you not afraid that I will escape from Hell. Oh no there is no escape the only other place is heaven. Believe me they will not take you.

Me. What if there has been a mistake and I should be in Heaven.

OK. There are no mistakes the system is foolproof and by the way you are not the first to try to worm his way out of Hell. Many have tried to beat the system but this system has been in place for millions of years. There is no way out.

Me. Have you no way of earning a release from this place. No, there is no release once here, here you stay until the end of eternity.

OK. Unions are forbidden any one caught trying to escape is thrown into the eternal fires and there they stay. Any kind of religion is dealt with in the same way. Eternal fire is exactly that. You are subject to a heat that will roast you and you will feel every second of it for evermore but your body stays the same. Sniff the air can you smell roasting meat? Do not say that you have not been warned now walk around Hell Take in all that you can, I will see you in ten years time. The time here in hell flies by and it will only seem like seconds. We have arranged things so that every second seems to fly by but in reality it is longer than a hundred years. Yes you and your fellow sinners will certainly rue the day that you broke those Earthly laws. Here we have no laws. Just watch out for your back and if any one should point a gun at you he or she will shoot. You will either die or be badly wounded and will feel the pain a thousand times worse than on earth. Now off you go I have wasted enough time on you already.

Me. Should I say goodbye or wave I would hate to think that you thought that I did not respect the boss of Hell.

OK. Sarcasm does not count here nor does swearing you may call anyone whatever name enters your head and do not be surprised at the names that you will be called in your eternal struggle to try and rise above this place called hell. The best is that you forget Heaven and believe me there are only a very few Angels nearly all come here and will stay here till the end of eternity.

Me I wandered around Hell I saw many that I had known while on earth. No one wanted to know me no one even recognised me, talking was down to a minimum, no laughter not even a grin except when some poor devil was going through his or her private hell. Ladies in hell all are naked both men and women so get rid of any ideas of how one will dress in hell the heat does not allow for clothing of any kind.

OK. I returned to see Old Nick, he was waiting and his first words were now do you know my name. Your name is not important. You are not important in fact you are just a figment of my imagination. I refuse to believe that there is a heaven and or a Hell Why has no one been able to see you and the so-called heavenly three, where are the Angels. We have been taught a form of history rising in the Middle East. There is talk of Abraham, Jesus and the one God of the Jewish nation, in fact there are as many religions as there are nations Take Indian, I do not think that any one knows how many different religions there are in India.

OK. You win, you may wake up now I am a dream a bad dream but a dream after all.

Me. I am pleased that I met you and more pleased to see you vanish from my dreams. Please do not come back I am after all wide open to ideas no matter where they come from but the ideas must be good for mankind not some rubbish about eternal fire and locked up in a place consisting of heat. After all I am a scribbler that records most of what I dream by the way my name I do not think I mentioned it is Bern.