Hell

[Stereocrisis]

I don't personally believe in Hell, in the sense that religion tells it is demons and the devil and etc..

But does anyone else fear that they will burn?

I fear that when I die, (and this is irrational, but I sometimes am scared by this) I will be in such a place as the sun. I mean, can you imagine the temperatures of trillions of degrees?

[Chumbawamba]

At 12/23/11 02:43 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: I fear that when I die, (and this is irrational, but I sometimes am scared by this) I will be in such a place as the sun. I mean, can you imagine the temperatures of trillions of degrees?

But good sir, the Sun is only 10 million degrees, at best.

[AlphaCentauri]

So you don't believe in demons but what you believe in is basically a giant fire pit?

But no, its incomprehensible, I doubt your body, if you could somehow stay alive, would be able to process the pain.

[Entice]

I sometimes fear that I am inherently a bad person and that I am going to hell, but if I ever went on believing that I would waste my life for fear of the afterlife. And I don't want to do that.

[CyanSandwich]

At 12/23/11 02:47 AM, AlphaCentauri wrote: So you don't believe in demons but what you believe in is basically a giant fire pit?

But no, its incomprehensible, I doubt your body, if you could somehow stay alive,

But he's already dead.

But paradoxically, I agree.

[Entice]

At 12/23/11 02:50 AM, bgraybr wrote: I sometimes fear that I am inherently a bad person and that I am going to hell, but if I ever went on believing that I would waste my life for fear of the afterlife. And I don't want to do that.

I usually consider myself an atheist/agnostic but sometimes I get caught up in "what IF I'm wrong and Christianity is like, the one true religion"?

[Winrar1337]

I might as well be afraid that I will be impaled by a unicorn.

[Sanch]

there is no hell, there is no such thing as a soul, what you have is all you get

[Stereocrisis]

At 12/23/11 02:44 AM, Chumbawamba wrote:

At 12/23/11 02:43 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: I fear that when I die, (and this is irrational, but I sometimes am scared by this) I will be in such a place as the sun. I mean, can you imagine the temperatures of trillions of degrees?

But good sir, the Sun is only 10 million degrees, at best.

I knew when I posted this that someone would call me out on that. haha

I know, by the way. I'm just saying, what if the place we experience after Earth is some kind of Hell? Einstein proved that energy could not be created, nor destroyed. Sooo... what does that mean for our energy? And can our energy feel pain?

Because if our energy does go someplace, and it can feel pain... this universe, outside of Earth is either painfully freezing cold, or mind fuckingly hot.

[MagicMichael66]

I don't believe there is hell altough I believe humans have souls. The body is the prison of the soul, the only way to free your soul is to DIE. I believe souls, spirits are in another dimension that we can't see. But hey, no one has ever come back from the dead to tell us how it is.

[Arachnus]

When you die, thats it. its as simple as that, you wont remember anything from life, it will just be like closing your eyes forever but you wont even realize because your brain doesn't function. its sad knowing that after around 80 years thats all you will ever get from existence, but it seems the most realistic to me.

[MatthewF]

Hell may exist but even if it does there is no real way to keep from going there. Millions of religions and they all say differently. Live a good life and treat others with kindness and hope for the best thats about all you can do

[PrincessLuna]

I wouldn't worry about hell, or any form of it. It's all fiction.

[Shade]

Hell ain't a bad place.

[Lare]

I'm way too rational to believe that after I die, I'll magically continue to feel pain as I'm magically transported to an off-world place where magical flames burn me for all eternity.

[Lemonardo]

I don't believe there is a Hell. I believe that when I die, I'll be dead. I won't sense anything, I won't even know I'm dead. Just stone dead. I'm not afraid of dying, either.

[Sense-Offender]

At 12/23/11 02:50 AM, bgraybr wrote: I sometimes fear that I am inherently a bad person and that I am going to hell, but if I ever went on believing that I would waste my life for fear of the afterlife. And I don't want to do that.

Yeah, the latter is a lot more likely. Screw that whole Pascal's wager thing.

At 12/23/11 02:57 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: Sooo... what does that mean for our energy?

reddit.com/r/askscience

[MaartenC]

Well, I love stories that involve demons, but I don't believe in them.

[yurgenburgen]

If any of the major religions are correct, which they aren't, hell is populated by the most interesting and intelligent humans ever to walk this planet, while heaven is populated by people who are content to sit on clouds strumming harps for eternity.

I know where I'd rather go.

[All-American-Badass]

At 12/23/11 02:59 AM, Xyphon202 wrote:

At 12/23/11 02:44 AM, Chumbawamba wrote:

At 12/23/11 02:43 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: the temperatures of trillions of degrees

But good sir, the Sun is only 10 million degrees, at best.

Doesn't even make a difference. I doubt the human body coult d recognize the difference between 10 million degrees and 10 trillion when an 80 degree cup of coffee is hot enough to give us third degree burns and send us to the hospital. At the temperature of 10 million it would be an incomprehensible heat.

I think you forgot a 1 in front of the 80. Unless you were talking in terms of Celsius then that post would make sense

[Slint]

At 12/23/11 02:56 AM, Sanch wrote: there is no hell, there is no such thing as a soul, what you have is all you get

Well that's depressing.

[escobargames]

At 12/23/11 02:43 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: I don't personally believe in Hell, in the sense that religion tells it is demons and the devil and etc..

But does anyone else fear that they will burn?

I would try to find out where your fears are coming from. Are they coming from men? Or, are they coming from your own intuition? If it is the latter, maybe you should investigate further.

[The-Last-Guardian]

At 12/23/11 02:43 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: I don't personally believe in Hell, in the sense that religion tells it is demons and the devil and etc..
But does anyone else fear that they will burn?

I believe not in the Holy Father, but I believe the devil.