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| What do you imagine Hell is like? | |
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| Dr. Noah | Apr 29 2005, 08:38 AM Post #61 |
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Sistertrek's Asian Correspondant
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Psyfi, Indeed we do have different concepts of karma. Part of the concept of karma is an attempt to explain why bad things happen to good people, something most philosophies and religions don't address. |
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| psyfi | Apr 29 2005, 08:56 AM Post #62 |
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Well I do agree that karma explains this very well, but not within a punishment framework so much as a framework of mind and what it draws to itself in order to facilitate evolving spiritual consciousness. |
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| Dr. Noah | Apr 29 2005, 11:38 AM Post #63 |
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And perhaps someone who lied to start a war would best learn from his mistakes by knowing what it's like to live in a war zone especially since while making that decision he never knew what war was like in the first place. |
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| psyfi | Apr 29 2005, 05:54 PM Post #64 |
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Sounds more like a punishment scenario than a facilitator of evolving spiritual consciousness. What if you knew for a fact that the absolute and only way that "somebody who lied to start a war" (I won't say Bush because I don't share your perception of him) could break the karmic cycle and move toward enlightenment was for him to be placed in a loving and warm and supportive environment in the next life, one that nurtured him as a person and judged him not for anything done in previous lives. Would you be for it? |
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| somerled | Apr 30 2005, 12:42 AM Post #65 |
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^^ as a bottom rung rifleman - infantryman on the front line in a vicious battle that lasts forever. That would be poetic justice.
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| bonja | May 1 2005, 07:06 AM Post #66 |
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Somerled- Your "poetic justice" sounds like the same kind of hell you'd find yourself in-if you actually believed in hell. Let's try to keep politics out of this thread. |
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| Minuet | May 1 2005, 09:53 AM Post #67 |
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I concur! Watch where you take this Somerled and Noah. This is not the politics forum. |
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| somerled | May 1 2005, 10:10 AM Post #68 |
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If hell exists - and I am NOT inclined to believe that - it's probably chockers and where nearly everyone winds up. (Maybe we are all there already - it's called Earth.) But it doesn't so no drama.
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| Fesarius | May 1 2005, 01:31 PM Post #69 |
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I believed this as a teenager. But after several years of researching the primary documents on the subject, I have come to a different conclusion. |
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| psyfi | May 1 2005, 03:18 PM Post #70 |
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In terms of Heaven or hell being reflected here on earth, I think that there is a very real sense in which every decision we make is made for Heaven or for hell, and collectively these decisions bring into our emotions and awareness exactly which of these we have decided for. |
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| deep1666 | May 4 2005, 12:01 AM Post #71 |
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Loyal follower of Dagon
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I would have to go with Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. You would be forced to choose your eternal tourment. Each person is differnt so hell will be differnt for every one. What your worst fear. That will be your hell. Me it would be at the mercy of other people that I'm in a full body cast. Still awake, but unable to move and no one will listen to my opinion.
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| Swidden | May 4 2005, 12:48 AM Post #72 |
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^^^ So really, nothing will change for you except the body cast?
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| Fesarius | May 4 2005, 08:28 AM Post #73 |
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^^^
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| deep1666 | May 8 2005, 06:24 PM Post #74 |
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Loyal follower of Dagon
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Hey there is one that listens to my opinion. He maybe only 3' but he listens.
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| Reverend_Doyle | May 9 2005, 12:05 AM Post #75 |
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Prophet of Dagon
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I chose undecided. When I was in my early teens I would have said the Hell, for me, would be like the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. When I was older I would have said eternal isolation. Now I'm not so sure. Being a deist, I'm not as certain that there is a Hell. Not the way everyone thinks anyway. I would venture a guess though that whatever it may be like, it will be an unspeakable horror, like in a Lovecraft story. The Rev |
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