Hell

[Legion.As.One]

If in almost every religion, it is clearly pointed out that if you don't follow their path, you're going to 'hell' (if you will). So, it doesn't really matter, everyone's going to 'hell' anyway.
Not that I believe in hell, I'm just pointing it out.
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[InspiredTruth]

Not really. Some religions say "all roads lead to God."

 

[Sphinx777]

In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict Hell as an intermediary period between incarnations.

Punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed in life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each wrong committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy), and sometimes they are general, with sinners being relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or level of suffering. In Islam and Christianity, however, faith and repentance play a larger role than actions in determining a soul's afterlife destiny.

In Christianity and Islam, Hell is traditionally depicted as fiery and painful, inflicting guilt and suffering. Some other traditions, however, portray Hell as cold and gloomy. Despite the common depictions of Hell as a fire, Dante's Inferno portrays the innermost (9th) circle of Hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt. Hell is often portrayed as populated with demons, who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, the Hindu Yama, or the Christian Satan.

In contrast to Hell, other types of afterlives are abodes of the dead and paradises. Abodes of the dead are neutral places for all the dead (an example would be Sheol) rather than prisons of punishment for sinners. A paradise is a happy afterlife for some or all the dead (an example would be Heaven). Modern understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a state of loss rather than as fiery torture literally under the ground.

 

[morningstar2651]

If in almost every religion, it is clearly pointed out that if you don't follow their path, you're going to 'hell' (if you will). So, it doesn't really matter, everyone's going to 'hell' anyway.
Not that I believe in hell, I'm just pointing it out.
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Where did you get that idea? Can you name even ten religions that clearly point this out?

How about five?

 

[Legion.As.One]

Eh...?! Its just a saying my friend made up!
Don't take it so seriously, I like arguing... but come on!

 

[sidhe]

What's being discussed here? Are we talkin' qlippoth, or Goetic realms? Hungry ghosts?

Or is it some realm where you've got nothing but an Atari 2600 and two games - E.T. and Custer's Revenge?

*shudders*

 

[BlueStarSkyMonkey]

i live in hell?
seriously, i'd take anything over my life sometimes.

 

[awitch]

What's being discussed here? Are we talkin' qlippoth, or Goetic realms? Hungry ghosts?

Or is it some realm where you've got nothing but an Atari 2600 and two games - E.T. and Custer's Revenge?

*shudders*

Hmm...Gehenna was the desert landfill outside Jerusalem that was associated with Hell in the Jewish traditions.

Does that mean there are two Hells because of the desert landfill in New Mexico where all the unsold ET cartridges are buried?

 

[Legion.As.One]

Hahah! But Hell is what individuals percieve it as. So everyone is living in someone else's Hell...

 

[Eudaimonist]

Or is it some realm where you've got nothing but an Atari 2600 and two games - E.T. and Custer's Revenge?

*shudders*

Come on! No God could be that sadistic. :o


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[ChildishFears]

If in almost every religion, it is clearly pointed out that if you don't follow their path, you're going to 'hell' (if you will). So, it doesn't really matter, everyone's going to 'hell' anyway.
Not that I believe in hell, I'm just pointing it out.
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I may be tormented, possibly endlessly in some type of Hellfire. Just burning burning burning burning burning burning burning screaming screaming screaming screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning burning screaming burning burning burning burning screaming screaming burning screaming burning. screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning screaming burning screaming. That's just the way it goes,

 

[Eudaimonist]

In the Discordian religion, Hell is reserved only for those people who believe that Hell exists.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Legion.As.One]

Discordianism is brilliant
If I do say so myself (and I do). A great and true concept.

 

[vespasia]

Originally Posted by sidhe

Or is it some realm where you've got nothing but an Atari 2600 and two games - E.T. and Custer's Revenge?

*shudders*
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Come on! No God could be that sadistic. :o

We have humanity for that.

 

[awitch]

Hahah! But Hell is what individuals percieve it as. So everyone is living in someone else's Hell...

According to Dante's Divine Comedy, I would either be in Limbo- for unbaptized, virtuous Pagans who reject Christ where I will whine about being separated from God all day, or the 6th level of hell-for Heretics who get locked in burning tombs (Smores for everyone!).

Then there's the Norse Hel, where, if I remember my mythology correctly, was reserved for the souls of people who died of old age or sickness instead of those died gloriously in battle.

 

[Eudaimonist]

I believe in a place called Heck. And, gosh darn it, you'll end up there.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[LadyDeflora]

by dante's judgment, i'd be in level two...it'd definitly be a crime of the flesh that would get me into serious trouble, if i continued those pursuits anymore, fortunately finding God again it all seems, boring.

What's being discussed here? Are we talkin' qlippoth, or Goetic realms? Hungry ghosts?

Or is it some realm where you've got nothing but an Atari 2600 and two games - E.T. and Custer's Revenge?

*shudders*

this would be paradise for my ex, he actually has an old game system collection, his pride and joy, the first atari system(1800 or something) that has one working game....he plays it frequently.

i had eight years of that hell, maybe level two wouldn't be so bad?

 

[Legion.As.One]

Ohhh, that would be a blow. Just because you didn't die in battle...

 

[AcornThornpicker]

Ohhh, that would be a blow. Just because you didn't die in battle...

I've always presumed that to be allegorical "battle"; as in, you go to Hell if you wouldn't face tasks, or quit prematurely - "cowards", in other words. In the Viking Age, people usually didn't become old without ensuring they were kept away from risky situations... And sickness? I assume that's a superstition - if you got sick, it's cause you offended some God, right?

I get the eighth level of Dante's Inferno; I refuse to give up petty fortune telling. ^-^ Although I'll have to visit the Sixth level some time - the Heretics always made me think of Vampires, especially with Doré's illustrations!


I'm pretty sure Hell would be either irritating or boring - flames and ice aren't subtle enough. You need something that would really gnaw at your nerves over the millenia... like your own personal Navi.

 

[Arthra]

Baha'is believe "Hell" is remoteness from God, a spiritual condition rather than a literal place:

"Heaven and hell are conditions within our own beings."

~ Shoghi Effendi, High Endeavours - Messages to Alaska, p. 49

Bahá'u'lláh teaches that heaven and hell are not places but conditions. Nearness to God is a state of being in heaven, while remoteness from Him is hell-fire.

~ Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Baha'u'llah v 2, p. 264