Heaven and Hell

[Guest guest]

This is a story I've heard from a nice Christian truck driver who picked me

up while I was hitch-hiking...

 

 

A man dies and comes before St.Peter at the Heaven's Gate. St.Peter

addresses him:

 

- "You've been a very nice man during your life on Earth. So now you can

choose where do you want to go - to Heaven or Hell."

 

- "But I don't know anything about Heaven nor Hell."

 

- "Oh, that's no problem. I can show you both. Come with me."

 

So St.Peter takes him to see the Hell first. Hell was an enormously huge

hall with millions of people sitting at the tables there. The tables were

full of different delicious dishes but all the people sitting there looked

so starved like they just got out of concentration camps.

 

- "Why are they so skinny if there is so much nice food before them?", asked

the man.

 

- "Look in front of them. They all have these Chinese eating sticks which

are each 2 meters long. While trying to eat, they all have to hold the

sticks by their ends and hold the food they want to eat by the other ends.

Only occasionaly do some crumbs fall into their mouth as an accident. That's

why they're so skinny."

 

Then St.Peter took him to see the Heaven. The Heaven was an enormously huge

hall with millions of people sitting at the tables there, just like Hell.

The tables were full of different delicious dishes and all the people

sitting there were happy and fully satisfied. And they were all holding 2

meters long Chinese eating sticks.

 

- "But what's the difference!?", asked the man. "In Hell they all had the

same sticks and were starving but here everyone is nicely shaped and

healthy!"

 

- "What's the difference?", said St.Peter. "In Hell they were all trying to

eat by themselves. In Heaven they were feeding each other."