HELL

it just strikes me as kind of weird that the goal of all human existence in buddhism is what happens by default to the worst people in the world in certain strains of christian thought

tbh living forever in any form sounds like Hell to me so Buddhism otm

right, i mean absent the curse of the survival instinct no so-called "heaven" could ever tempt me to reject the gift of nonbeing. i feel like francis and i aren't exactly on the same page here.

Hi I'm Satan https://t.co/rbpoSaSlCR

— Iggle piggle (@1gglepiggle) October 1, 2018

I think we're in it

bump

theres at least one ilxor who afaict believes in hell

this is minblowing to me

altho they dont upthread

confused now

I ain’t no hippie, but in response to Neanderthal and Kate’s annihilationism riffing upthread, if the options are between eternal unity with the divine, and none-existence, I know which one I’m taking

When I examine all the possible origins for the idea of Hell as a place of eternal punishment for eternally anguished souls who shall never escape their extreme pain and humiliation for all time, not one of them makes any sense to me in terms of morality, physics, philosophy or divinity. The only hypothesis that makes the slightest sense to me is that Hell is a falsehood that was concocted solely to frighten credulous people into better behavior by well-meaning but stupid religious leaders who thought they were doing a good deed by teaching this grotesque doctrine to those who respected them.

In this world, we're just beginnin'
To understand the miracle of livin'
Baby, I was afraid before
But I'm not afraid anymore
Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?
Ooh, hell is a place on Earth