Do you believe in heaven and hell, if so what is your idea of either?

Question

Mine of hell is Blair running the country...oh dear he already is. Ok let's say running the world then.

Answer 1

You might be in purgatory.

Bush is hell.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Do you really think having Tony Blair in charge is hell- surely having George W would be worse. Hell is the worst thing you can imagine and more, try to open your mind to darker things than the mildly deluded Mr Blair. An eternity of it, with no potential of release. I don't believe in heaven or hell incidentally, just getting into the spirit of things.

Answer 3

I read a great story once that is the best imagining of heaven/hell i can think of (can't remember the title or author. anyone?) Briefly it goes something like this...

A guy spends his life pretending to love art in order to be *sucessful*, woo the right people, give the right impression. He considers himself a good person and expects to go to heaven. When he dies, he ends up in a huge art gallery, with no way out and no one else there. He complains that he should have been in heaven, not hell. I thought you were, comes the answer!

lol

Answer 4

Heaven to mean means a lot of different things.

Heaven to me is being at home with my 4 children. Safe and sound with food in the cupboards, sitting in my house by a warm fire and snow falling gently outside.

Heaven is also a place you go when you die to spend time with you past family and friends in happiness.

Hell means a number of different things. Hell is also know as Sheol, and Hades which all mean before the grave.

Switch on your television set and you will see that we are living in hell right now. Murders, starvation, rape, war.

I do not think hell is a place of fire and brimstone i think when you die you face your own personal hell because you will be held accountable for all the wrong doings you have achieved whilst you were alive. Self denial and realisation is your own personal hell.

In conclusion people have there own ideas of heaven and hell.

Answer 5

I think Heaven and Hell are both right here on Earth...maybe when you're really feeling low, and you wish you were dead, that could be Hell, b/c what pain is worse than feeling like nothing will ever be right again? and Heaven could be a state of total and complete peace of mind... but that's just me

Answer 6

We are living in hell now in a world where there is no trust where the rules of the stronger never end where cruelty and crimes are common thing!!! i think that heaven is where all stop to be reborn to a better thing and when we will all disapear a better world will start again without **** like guns,nuclear bombs or people using the name of GOD to kill others !!! heaven is where we will cease to fight and to cry !!!

Answer 7

This is a popular misconception, I feel.
I think Tony has done a good job and it
could have been a lot, lot worse.


So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Pink Floyd

Answer 8

Hell would be, sitting in a room with a crowd of people watching soaps, and then, them talking about it as; though it was real life.

Heaven would be meeting all the people I love, and miss.

Then cornering all the famous people I have admired,
but only read about.
And having great halls of learning to visit...

Answer 9

Heaven

blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision). In Judaism, heaven is pictured as the abode of God to which he ultimately welcomes the righteous and faithful. Many Christians believe that after the general resurrection the body of a Christian will be glorified and reunited forever with the soul in heaven. The Roman Catholic church teaches that before entering heaven many souls must pass through purgatory to be made ready. Much of the conventional imagery of the Christian heaven—e.g., golden streets—is based on the Book of Revelation. In Islam, the Qur'an describes heaven in graphically idyllic terms, replete with fleshly delights; but Islam also has a strong mystical tradition which places these heavenly delights in the context of the ecstatic awareness of God. In Zoroastrianism, the souls of the deceased must pass over the Bridge of the Requiter, which widens to allow easy passage for the good, who enter a kingdom of joy and light. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, existence is considered cyclical, making the rewards and pleasures of heaven a desirable but temporary experience; the higher objective is often conceived as a release from any form of rebirth, whether in heaven or on earth.


Hell

Abode of evildoers after death, or the state of existence of souls damned to punishment after death. Most ancient religions included the concept of a place that divided the good from the evil or the living from the dead (e.g., the gloomy subterranean realm of Hades in Greek religion, or the cold and dark underworld of Nilfheim or Hel in Norse mythology). The view that hell is the final dwelling place of the damned after a last judgment is held by Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Jewish concept of Gehenna as an infernal region of punishment for the wicked was the basis for the Christian vision of hell as the fiery domain of Satan and his evil angels and a place of punishment for those who die without repenting of their sins. In Hinduism hell is only one stage in the career of the soul as it passes through the phases of reincarnation. The schools of Buddhism have varying conceptions of hell, usually entailing some kind of punishment or purgatory. In Jainism, hell is a purgatory in which sinners are tormented by demons until the evil of their lives has been exhausted.

Answer 10

In my opinion there is no heaven and there is no hell, because our every action is pre-destined from the birth of the universe, so if someone goes into heaven or hell, he/she goes there because someone - called god or devil - pre-destined his/hers path, and that's not fair. We live, we die, and we want to know why.

Our complete biologycal existence is about survive. Let me illustrate it with an example: We love sex. Why? Because it is he key for the human race to survive. There is a reason behind Everything we do and everything we think.

And eventually we must decide for ourselves the kind of life we wish to live.

Answer 11

If it could be worse than Blain at the helm, then that is Hell and if it can be one who can be the exact opposite of Blair (even gender?), then that would be Heaven..... since both are concepts, no real instance can quite match it fully!!