Concept of Hell

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Imagine falling asleep like any other night.. falling off a cliff looking at bird men flying up thinking why am I not flying, why do they have wings? Where my wings? I want to fly, god damnit! Then you hit the bottom, and theres a boat and river.. so you get in the boat.. because why wouldn't you? Then this boat brings you to a bottomless pit with a man walking around the edge saying turn back, this is my bottomless pit. And you say, "can I go in?" And he says, "You can, but I dont want you to, go away." Then, "too bad, im going in now." And you walk twoards it, and he says "nope. no. go back! dont do this." And you reach the edge.. and he says "last chance, go back." And you say fuck you bitch and jump in... then you fall down down down and the flames go up up up. And you look up and the angel at the top is flipping you off all the way down.

You see, hell is made up of questions, and lust of knowledge. Your hell will be your own minds.
 
No man, hell exists here on Earth. It's not a state of mind, but it IS the result of a particular state of mind.
 
All things that myths want us to believe are only told to us by people who never have been to any of them. If you've never been to a mythological place then your only imagining what it might be like not even if it exists at all. After all only the living tell write about things that only dead people can know.
 
Faith, in every country, is only a blind deference to the sentiments of the priests, who are always infallible where they are sufficiently powerful.

Our priests are unceasingly talking to us of the weakness and errors of the human mind; but is the mind of a priest more infallible than mine? Is his understanding less subject to error than that of an unbeliever? May not his passions and interests deceive him in the same way that others are deceived?

We no sooner refuse to believe on the bare word of a priest, than he endeavors to frighten us; but the terror he excites in us is not a convincing argument, neither can fear be a motive of credibility. Believe, or you will be damned. This is the strongest argument in Theology.

But is it certain that I shall be damned for not believing what appeared to me incredible? Divines have long been asked to reconcile the dogma of eternal punishment with that of infinite mercy; but this they will not meddle with; yet still they persist in representing our heavenly Father as a tyrant, to whom no father of a family would wish to have any resemblance.

Why would you punish a guilty wretch when no utility can arise from his punishment? What good results to mankind, or to the Deity himself, from the punishment of the millions of unfortunate beings who have already been damned?

The dogma of eternal punishment is the offspring of folly, of atrocity, and of blasphemy. If God will punish eternally, what proportion exists between the offense and the chastisement? If he punish for his own satisfaction, he becomes a monster of barbarity; if he punish to correct others, his rigor is useless for those who are not witnesses of it.

But further: Why is this God so wrathful? Can man, either living or dead, tarnish his glory and disturb his repose and felicity? If God be offended at sin, it is because he wills to be offended. If God will eternally punish sin, it is because he wills that sin shall eternally be committed.
It is pretended that God, will burn the wicked man (who can do nothing against him) in a fire that shall endure forever, yet should we not regard as culpable any father who should plan the easiest death imaginable for his son, though that son had compromised his honor, his fortune, or even his life?
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http://www.skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id4.html

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If God be offended at sin, it is because he wills to be offended. If God will eternally punish sin, it is because he wills that sin shall eternally be committed.
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I know, right?
But he LOVES you!

Kinda like the ex who stalks you, repeatedly violates the restraining order, hangs your pet dog and sets your new place on fire...:eek:
 
Knowledge91 said:
Imagine falling asleep like any other night.. falling off a cliff looking at bird men flying up thinking why am I not flying, why do they have wings? Where my wings? I want to fly, god damnit! Then you hit the bottom, and theres a boat and river.. so you get in the boat.. because why wouldn't you? Then this boat brings you to a bottomless pit with a man walking around the edge saying turn back, this is my bottomless pit. And you say, "can I go in?" And he says, "You can, but I dont want you to, go away." Then, "too bad, im going in now." And you walk twoards it, and he says "nope. no. go back! dont do this." And you reach the edge.. and he says "last chance, go back." And you say fuck you bitch and jump in... then you fall down down down and the flames go up up up. And you look up and the angel at the top is flipping you off all the way down.

You see, hell is made up of questions, and lust of knowledge. Your hell will be your own minds.
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I suffered from mental illness for 5 years and I really do know what hell is like.

I used to believe I had to stay up all night or some one or something would sneak into my room and kill me in my sleep. THAT'S HELL!
 
Diode-Man said:
I suffered from mental illness for 5 years and I really do know what hell is like.

I used to believe I had to stay up all night or some one or something would sneak into my room and kill me in my sleep. THAT'S HELL!
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Hell is a state of mind. 90% of mental illness is made up by ones own mind. From ages 10 to 19 I assumed eveyone and anyone disliked me.
 
Hell is made up by people who saw vulcano first. Hell = everlasting fire. When one thinks of hell one thinks of deep in the depths with hell fires and ground that moves and quakes. Sorry but this is just the description of the center of the earth.
 
Knowledge91 said:
Hell is a state of mind. 90% of mental illness is made up by ones own mind. From ages 10 to 19 I assumed eveyone and anyone disliked me.
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90% is kinda a hard estimate. My bipolar disorder can be shown in the brain and it shows what is not functioning well, If you have zero understanding of mental illness please do not talk about it. I come from a family where autism and bipolar disorder are matter of the day. Its actually well proven thats it is a malfunction in certain brain sections not some made up shit. I think its rather fucking ignorant to talk like that. Yes there are allot of people that think they are depressed or they want to suicide just because they got bullied. But thats not 90% of the mental illness. If you think that you should see a psych very soon.
 
Hell is other people.

All those fake fuckers at church supposedly go to heaven right? Ya that's hell to me.
 
Wasn't Hell originally a garbage dump? Someone here pointed that out from a Greek version of the original works.
 
Bowser said:
Wasn't Hell originally a garbage dump? Someone here pointed that out from a Greek version of the original works.
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Place where they took trash to be burned, I believe.

Hmm...how about Buddhist hell?

Raurava – the "screaming" Naraka. Here beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground. When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside. Life in this Naraka is 8.2944×1014 years long.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)
Not too much of the translated stuff talks about the Buddhist hells...they have a whole system of hells.:bugeye:
 
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