First of all, the logic eludes me. Second, can you really add time to an eternal sentence? I don’t think that word means what Satan thinks it means.
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Some commentary on “three life sentences to be served consecutively” perhaps? I got nothing.
The guy in charge is supposed to reward good behavior. Satan is no exception, but being Satan, he anti-rewards. The guy is already eternally damned, so Satan can only inflict something that sounds worse but isn’t. I could say something mathematical about ω+1000 but I will forbear.
Usually good behavior is rewarded with a reduced sentence. But since this is hell where good behavior is disapproved it is punishable by … Oh, wait, if hell is where you are being punished for bad behavior so good behavior is… Oh, okay… this is the devil; he *likes* bad behavior and so… he likes hell and …
Okay, the joke IS that in hell you get *punished* by good behavior by having time *added* to your sentence. Period. Yes, somehow in the quintuple negative the logic lost one degree of polarity and ended up pointing in the wrong direction but… it’s not like it was a rib splitter to begin with.
As for adding to eternity…. I don’t think the cartoonist even thought about that.
Maybe it just feels like eternity before you get out.
Plus, of course, the devil can be expected to use any psychological torment he can in punishing sinners, so telling one that they will get extra time in eternal punishment seems about right.
And, of course, the twist is that this “extra good” person landed in hell. That’s what you get for wearing clothing made of different kinds of fibers, sinner!
Maybe “eternal” is supposed to be “infernal”.
My guess is that the fact that adding 1000 years to an eternal stay is nonsensical is part of the joke.
The guy is reminded where he is by the fact that he’s called before the Devil for such nonsense as that.
“I said I’d wait forever if it didn’t take too long ….”
See what Bill did there? Inconceivable!
I get something very different from this.
When I was young, one of the things our very northern Baptist pastor tried to force on us was the idea that “good works will not get you into heaven”. What I see happening here: this guy was an amazing great person in life, but he was not “saved” so he does not get to go to heaven. Satan is really repulsed by his good works now gets to punish him for them. Like a double whammy of what Pastor used to tell us.