To all those who do not believe in Heaven and Hell, will you be sorry if you are actually wrong? Eternity is never ending and one of those 2 places would be a complete drag to spend your forever, wouldn't it?
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druebeall
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it's better than spending this life in a lie ,forced on you by others . .
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I feel firmly convicted that the supernatural is all imaginary creations. However I am interested in persuing a more in-depth study of karma because I believe karma is a spiritual element of nature. So I should probably be nicer to the fundamentalist people and stop saying bad things about the police..
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I believe in God, but neither of those places. And Im pretty confident that they don't exist. For the sake of my ideals, I am willing to bet my life--literally--on this idea. And even the chance that ppl who read this and angrily disagree will "minus" me.
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this question has been debated over & over on Answerbag. there is no reason to keep beating this dead horse.
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Yeah, I'd be sorry to be wrong. Isn't everybody, generally, sorry to be wrong? The reverse case is true for yourself - if it turns out the hindus have got it right and you end up reincarnated as a dung beetle because you didn't tend to your karma, boy, you'll be kicking yourself, won't you? And if we're right, and there isn't a heaven and hell.. well, nobody will be sorry most likely, but you'll have wasted a good percentage of your life on a bunch of meaningless rituals. So really, taunting us with "you'll be sorry" is not going to be all that effective. Maybe you're right, maybe I'm right, I guess we'll find out in the end. (And y'know, heaven sounds like kind of a drag anyway. Eternity floating on a cloud playing a harp with Jerry Fallwell and totally despicable people like him? At least hell has rock'n'roll...)
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Sure. But if you're right, then in order to get to Heaven, you have to worship the kind of God who would create a universe in which people can spend never-ending eternity being tortured. Think about that... BTW, Please note that I'm not criticizing God. Rather, I'm criticizing people who don't know how to use their brains...
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So are you implying that just not "believing" in a dogmatic and abstract concept of "heaven & hell"--regardless whether one may be a person of good heart, morals, and deeds-- warrants a person to be thrown in a "lake of fire" for eternity? This idea runs counter to every meaningful concept of justice and fairness. It doesn't seem compatible with the preconceived notion of this god being "good", "just", and "merciful"--does it? I doubt very much that such coercing premise could ever generate any real and meaningful love for such a god, because the chief appeal of such a belief is fear; whereas all the fear in the world could never get from people any more than the affection of a dog that licks the hand of its tyrant at feeding time......when there's no whip to be seen. The "Pascal's wager" certainly would not work. Because it presumes that to believe is subjected to the will, and by determining that one is in safe-bet situation, one goes ahead and choose to believe to cover his/her ass; which also implies that such a god is a fool and would buy into the "ass-covering-just-in-case."
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doesn't life feel like a never ending eternity already? go get a real hobby and quit bible-bashing, what a pointless life you must lead........
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To all those christians who do not believe in Allah and his final Prophet - will you be sorry if you are actually wrong and yada yada yada? To all those muslims who do not believe in Shiva and etc. etc. ...add a good ten thousand or more options here... They cannot all be right - but it is possible they are all wrong. Putting all your eggs in the jesus basket may be your undoing as well...
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How are you going to feel when you realize that you wasted your days worshipping whichever god you worship and failed to make the world a better place? Why do you think your opinion is the right opinion?
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Heaven and hell are imaginary places, like figments of Christian mythology. At the death of body and consciousness we will exist in a dimension where time does not exist.. we will be able to see as in a dream but I don't think we will be able to feel emotions or be able to think.. As an atheist I try to search for realistic answers as an alternative to the dead end of ancient supernatural beliefs.
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Not sorry but surprised...anyway..according to the KJ Bible "eternity" is only 1,000 years in either place - then comes "the second or true death", which means most of us are taking a dirt nap for the remainder of galactic history - and we're not going to notice a bloody thing ever again. Why can't we come to grips with the fact that we only get one ride on this merry-go round of life and be satisfied with that? Why do we pay idiots to dream up and market these hokey stories of "afterlife" to us? Yeah, some aspects of them are cool, and some parts are as bizarre as a lunatics dream - but no matter what part your reading it's still a lot of hokum and hooey and it blinds us to the truth which is of course that this life you have now is all your going to get and you might as well get the most out of it that you can, When I die I am gone - I'm history - and I'm not coming back or going anywhere but to be used as landfill until I completely decompose. Just like Beethoven.
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Both places sound like a complete drag, to be honest with you. I'm just going to paste my answer to another, very similar question about Atheists and Hell: ******************* I'd actually rather be there than any version of Heaven I've seen described by any Abrahamic religion (only 2 of which believe in hell). It's gotta beat continually praising a psychopathic, genocidal, misogynistic, homophobic narcissist. Eternity in subjugation to that IS my definition of Hell. In Hell, at least I'd be free of the proselytization. Like it would even happen... ******************* I'd also like to point out to you that it isn't just Atheists who do not believe in Heaven and Hell. Jews do not believe in Hell. It is a Christian concept that carried over into Islam. Hindus do not believe in Heaven and Hell. Buddhists do not believe in Heaven and Hell. Wiccans do not believe in Heaven and Hell. This is just a short list.
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No, I don't pretend to have all the answers it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong about something. I'll make the best of whichever hell I land in, even if it's the pretty one with all the harp music. Gawd, I hate harp music.
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Nah, as a life long warrior, I'll accept the ride from the Valkyrie and dine in Odin's great hall and prepare for the day of Ragnarök like other the other warrior born. You're pretty conceited to think that you version of heaven and hell is the correct one, many other and older religions have their own versions. There is no evidence that your's is real and the others are often better, so it would make more sense to follow one of the other religions, just to make sure that you get it right.
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I got a life to live now. I'll worry about that when poor little Chainsaw bites the dust. Until then, make mine Marvel.
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Yes, it would be a drag, and I'll be pretty sorry I was wrong if I go to Hell. Happy I was wrong if I go to Heaven. Not sure how I'll feel if I end up in Valhalla. Maybe the Jews are right, and I'll just be a janitor in Heaven, which would be ok I suppose.
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Well, since I don't know anyone who has been to either placed and lived to tell the tale, it's difficult to answer that question. Besides, as far as hell is concerned, most of our images of it come from art and literature, which is the personal interpetation of the artist. Does simply not believing in Heaven and Hell mean you are doomed? No. We make our own Heaven and Hell.
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Well if you dont believe in heaven or hell then you wouldnt.
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I'm too busy enjoying life here on Earth to even worry about that.
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