Poll: Hell or a total void of nothingness without conciousness or feeling of existence?Which do you prefer

[Nyffenschwander]

"I have been dead for billions of years before I was born and have not suffered the slightest inconvenience." Mark Twain as far as I know.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Well, my view of hell is suffering for a while followed by nothingness (annihilation.) So, basically both.

 

[Zildjin81]

Nothingness, of course. Hell is pretty fucking terrifying.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I'll take the nothingness. Burning hurts. If I don't exist anymore, then I won't even be able to realize that I don't exist, right?

 

[Heathrow]

Seems to me like you'd get used to the pain after most of an eternity, and existing will always be better than not existing. When I cease to exist, as far as I'm concerned, everything that ever happened to me ceases too just as though it never happened. I must admit that I'm baffled with everyone that seems so comfortable with that idea. Nothingness means all your accomplishments all your legacy all your children and loved ones cease to exist, at least in hell you would be able to look back on the good times.

It's a pity that nothingness is the most likely answer, who knows though maybe something happens to save our minds. And on that note I'm just going to leave this here:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Edit: Classically hell is just the absence of god too so if that's the case then I can really deal with that.

 

[Omikron009]

So, going to hell or just dying? Because that's what death is. I'd say that, because I wouldn't know I was dead.

 

[GloatingSwine]

The existence of hell implies that the guiding principle of the universe is sadism, therefore nothingness.

 

[accountant]

I can't see how eternal torment could be better than no worries, if you don't exist, then it doesn't matter, eternal torment just REALLY sucks.

 

[ilion]

yeah, well were does nothingness start? if it is nothingness, how can it end? my favourite quote from the hagakure -» Our bodies are given form from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two separate.

 

[sokka14]

eternal pain and suffering or nothing?
is that even a choice?

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Hmmmmm... Eternal pain or not existing? Well, seeing as if I stop existing, I won't be there to miss being alive, and eternal pain just plain sucks, I going to have to go with the latter.

 

[The_Echo]

Hell.

The former.

I am not religious but the ceasing to exist is incredibly scary.

Took the words right out my mouth.

 

[KEGman321]

Hell. I mean, i would rather feel something then just be non-existant. And why is Hell constant torment and suffering? If all the evil people are sent to an evil place, ruled by an evil person, wouldn't they be rewarded for being evil???

 

[Bananajoy]

Nothingness. Not existing would be way better than suffering for eternity.

 

[lacktheknack]

Psst... A common interpretation of hell IS non-existence.

 

[Xanadeas]

Eternal suffering or nothingness? Meh... It doesn't matter. If I spend all my time worrying about what happens when I die then I'm not exactly living now am I?

 

[Daverson]

Nothingness easily. The real kicker would be a total void _with_ conciousness.

 

[mechanixis]

Nothingness would be nice. It would be like a deep sleep from which you never need to wake up.

I had a dream once where I was in a plane crash, and it was lucid enough that in the moments leading up to it I came fully face-to-face with the concept of death, and exactly how fucking terrifying it is for something that colossal and inevitable to be completely unknown to us. It's too grand a terror to think your way out of.

And what happened in the dream was, after my sudden death in the plane crash, I reappeared fifteen minutes earlier, as if having woken from a dream, and forgot what had just happened. And then the plane went down again, and I relived all the terror and apprehension all over again before another death. And so on. Infinite cosmic terror timeloop. THAT is a scary thing to happen when you die.

 

[Kingsman]

Actually, It's possible we might never get to either of those conclusions. There's apparently a theory that the brain remains active for about 6 and a half minutes after death, and that that time period would be an eternity to the person dying.

Has anyone ever seen the movie "Jacob's Ladder"?

 

[CobaltBomber]

Hell.