i find both places torture chambers
hell means you get roasted for ever in a self concious state
heaven means you enjoy bliss for ever in a self concious state
to me both places sound extreme forms of punishments
what about you friends?
xmuslim / free thinker
2007-08-12 03:26:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the very thought of me having to endure eternal life with no end scares me
2007-08-12 03:28:06 · update #1
Easy! I would rather go to hell. Based on the stories of the bible. Satan helped Adam and Eve gain knowledge. God punished them for learning. So I would rather go with a teacher rather than a murderous deity that forces me to act like a sheep.
2007-08-12 03:29:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I don't really understand with your first sentence about you find both places torture chamber and what made you think heaven is an extreme form of punishment?
The very thought of having to endure eternal life with no end scares me too. That's why I choose HEAVEN for eternal bliss.
In Bible, Jesus has described hell as a place of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" and I am pretty sure that He REALLY mean it.
2007-08-12 03:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by Duke of Tudor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon: Heaven is gonna be finished with Jesus-like human beings or with Christians? If with Christians, then I desire Hell. The rational cool human beings would be in Hell, George Carlin, Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, and so on.
2016-10-02 04:04:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain said, "Go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company". I agree that nonexistence is a much better ending for me. An eternity of anything would get very dull.
2007-08-12 03:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Heaven you will be bored out of your mind. You will be required to shout praises to Jesus nonstop.
There are no breaks of any kind. There is no day or night, you won't need to go pee; you will be in a large hall, so large you likely will never see the walls, and you will stand in a crowd of roughly one billion people and you will shout praises to Jesus, and short little angels with scurry around whispering loudly: "Louder."
After about three hundred years of this you will start wondering what Hell is like. But you don't want to go there.
There you would burn and rot forever. You would suffer painful farts. You would itch and can't scratch. Your own screams would startle you. Every alley and alcove is crammed with tortured souls writhing and moaning angrily.
Certainly anyone would prefer eternal boredom over eternal agony. I'm surprised you even ask.
2007-08-12 03:32:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Everyone will experience both. In Islam, a higher consciousness is understood, but reward and punishment is given on our level. It's like offering candy to a kid, but it's not really true. If all intelligence belongs to God, maybe we just return to God. And whether we were good or bad, this return may be heaven or hell.
2007-08-12 03:36:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like to have a holiday resort in both and be on a tourist visa.That way the daily routines wouldn't bind me and can enjoy whatever is best .
2007-08-12 03:47:58 · answer #7 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It IS scary, most people don't even consider that. Imagine constant worship, constant mental and physical surveillance, and never ending servitude. Wow, I'm ready for a nap just talking about it.
I choose none.
2007-08-12 03:34:22 · answer #8 · answered by Apollo's Revenge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's what life is for - you can live in either heaven or hell, for a time; and when you choose to change, you can - here and now is the only reality that we have to 'live' in and you can make it whatever you want
2007-08-12 03:40:25 · answer #9 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right. The idea of going to heaven and staying there forever is, frankly, quite boring. No conflict? No pain? No desire? What are we to DO all day?
2007-08-12 03:36:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋