Poll: So hypothetically , if heaven and hell exists , where do you think you'll be sent?
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Same here.omicron1 said:
Granted, I'm just now starting to reconnect with my faith, which I have gone without for a longer time than I had wished but still.
I try to be a good person, all the same.
Well, since I am an atheist (and even worse, I used to be a Catholic, but turned away from the Church because I realised many personal things about it, one being that it is completely unable to adapt to changing cultures after 2000 years, and that it continues to force itself on other people, which doesn't work on an ethical and philosophical level), then I'd say hell.
But my actions aren't for wrongdoing, I'm doing what I believe is the most tolerant and ethical ways I can be. If I was hypothetically based on that, I'd say heaven.
But my actions aren't for wrongdoing, I'm doing what I believe is the most tolerant and ethical ways I can be. If I was hypothetically based on that, I'd say heaven.
Probably hell as far as most religions go.
And I'm quite cool with that. An eternity of pain isn't really that much different than an eternity of bliss when you get down to it. Sure, the first few decades might suck somewhat more but that's such a small time-frame relatively that it approaches zero. But after that time I'm quite certain you'd get used to it and it'd become your new normal, it's not like you can die from it anyway.
So from that point on, wherever you go, there'll just be some good days, some bad days and a whole lot of average days. It really doesn't matter where you end up, you're facing an eternity of unremarkable averageness anyway. If the afterlife exists anyway.
I'll take a finite life that simply ends in nothingness over infinite apathy any day. Scarcity gives value and meaning. With only so many years to live your life has both, what you do matters because the time spent on it can never be regained. With eternity in front it doesn't really matter does it? You'll always have time to undo the things you've done, you'll never have to make any meaningful choice because there will always be time for every option and you'll never really achieve anything real, in infinity a monkey with a typewriter can produce the greatest books ever written.
And I'm quite cool with that. An eternity of pain isn't really that much different than an eternity of bliss when you get down to it. Sure, the first few decades might suck somewhat more but that's such a small time-frame relatively that it approaches zero. But after that time I'm quite certain you'd get used to it and it'd become your new normal, it's not like you can die from it anyway.
So from that point on, wherever you go, there'll just be some good days, some bad days and a whole lot of average days. It really doesn't matter where you end up, you're facing an eternity of unremarkable averageness anyway. If the afterlife exists anyway.
I'll take a finite life that simply ends in nothingness over infinite apathy any day. Scarcity gives value and meaning. With only so many years to live your life has both, what you do matters because the time spent on it can never be regained. With eternity in front it doesn't really matter does it? You'll always have time to undo the things you've done, you'll never have to make any meaningful choice because there will always be time for every option and you'll never really achieve anything real, in infinity a monkey with a typewriter can produce the greatest books ever written.
Hell, no question there. Mostly due to my general hate towards most religions, especially those who say there's some kind of reward & punishment afterlife.
I suppose the multiple accounts of rape & murder also might contribute but I'm pretty certain that's moot considering how I don't mumble nice things to some clearly humble and reasonable deity every Sunday.
I suppose the multiple accounts of rape & murder also might contribute but I'm pretty certain that's moot considering how I don't mumble nice things to some clearly humble and reasonable deity every Sunday.
If it's the Christian Hell, it's Hell for me, considering that I'm an agnostic neopagan. I don't mind much, though, since Heaven is apparently completely perfect (and also celibate). I'd get bored there very quickly. And I'm a bit on the masochistic side, so the eternal torture might not be that bad.