bluegenes writes:
I agree about heaven. Let's face it, the Jehovah's Witnesses who knock on my door are going there, and the Islamic suicide bombers are, not to mention real horrors like all the born again hillbillies and G. W. Bush.
Like you, I'll give it a miss.
Though I agree on all counts, thats not actually what I meant.
I literally find the idea terrifying.
riVeRraT (Message1) writes:
but I feel that when it all comes down to it, and you are on your death bed, and you are taking your last breath, I think that will change at that moment for you.
If some sort of
truth pops into my head at my moment of death I see no comfort in an eternal
anything. In heaven I would have the time to actually learn the math behind all that physics stuff that amazes me, perhaps even learn the most complex aspects of biology. I would read every book (maybe even the bad ones), talk to every person {soul}, maybe even have a few millenea to bang heads with God.
Then what??? Seen it all, thought it all, learned it all.
Seriously - once I got all the bases covered Heaven is as much a curse as hell is. Hell may even be an interesting alternative being as I would not have experienced that yet! The interesting thing about pain is the more you are exposed to it the less it hurts. I don't actually fear hell any more than I fear heaven.
I think of Heaven like a chocolate bar. I enjoy it and may eat a second, but I know that faced with an eternity of eating chocolate I would rather sew my lips shut.
So I am agnostic and I hope that the Christians got it all wrong.