just sad

Harmony Cobel saying that her mother was an atheist, and that the good news about hell is that it’s just the product of a morbid human imagination, but the bad news is that whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.

Harmony as a child laborer, but seemingly holding no ill will towards her mother over this fact, and continually grieving her death.

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Ether used recreationally would induce “frolic,” leaving people unable to remember their experiences while high, including no memory of how injuries may have occurred.

The Catholic Church refused absolution for those addicted to ether.

Harmony was not lying just for the hell of it when she told the two versions of her mother.

Her mother was a Catholic.

Lumon came in and decimated their town with its ether factory, leaving its residents disabled, addicted, and poor. The very substance they were creating - “sweet oil of vitriol” - necessary to survive first the horrors of the labor, and then the after effects.

Harmony’s mother’s health deteriorated from the labor, and watched her child start down the same path. There was no forgiveness for an inescapable situation - they were condemned to hell by Lumon.

Harmony’s mother became an atheist.