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27 Jun 2016, 9:23 am

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When I was a kid, "the story" was..... "When you die and get up to Heaven, Saint Peter will meet you at the Pearly Gates. He will go-through the book of your life, and check-out all the things you did wrong, and decide if you're worthy of Heaven; and then, of course, let you through the gates, or cast you into Hell"----or, at least this is the way I remember the story.

My question to YOU is----whether or not, you believe this story----whether or not you believe in God, Heaven, religion, whatever----what would YOU do? What would you say, in answer to your transgressions? Would you try to defend yourself, or would you try to explain that you learned much better "ways", had turned your life around, and so-forth----or, what?


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27 Jun 2016, 10:08 am

Assuming it was true(and it's not) the first thing I would do would be sitting next to him and going through the book of my life, curious about all the events I don't remember. Then I would say I think I made the best choices given the circumstances and my personality and I am not ashamed of anything I did although I feel guilty for some stuff I did because of giving up to my weakness. Of course I wouldn't want to go to hell (assuming hell was you know... actual "hell", not just a place where souls not fitting for heaven go but place where torture you forever) but since I don't think I deserve so severe punishment I would accept the decision of me going to hell, if it was Peters choice - because if I am a person going to hell then hell can't be "tortures forever" type but probably something just a little worse than human life. Who knows, maybe I would actually fit there since I don't really like the idea of spending eternity in christian heaven either? And well - my dreams are usually nightmares and I like them so if hell was like my nightmares then it would actually be fun. :twisted:



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27 Jun 2016, 12:53 pm

adifferentname wrote:
Campin_Cat wrote:
When I was a kid, "the story" was..... "When you die and get up to Heaven, Saint Peter will meet you at the Pearly Gates. He will go-through the book of your life, and check-out all the things you did wrong, and decide if you're worthy of Heaven; and then, of course, let you through the gates, or cast you into Hell"----or, at least this is the way I remember the story.

My question to YOU is----whether or not, you believe this story----whether or not you believe in God, Heaven, religion, whatever----what would YOU do? What would you say, in answer to your transgressions? Would you try to defend yourself, or would you try to explain that you learned much better "ways", had turned your life around, and so-forth----or, what?


"Your boss is renowned for being omniscient. What's the point of this little exercise?"


Yep. I'd add: "where's the buffet line?" (I'm right behind you auntblabby :D ).



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27 Jun 2016, 4:30 pm

^^^^and after my psychic spiritual tummy was good and filled from that eternal all you can eat gourmet buffet, i'd do lots of exploring and formulating of questions to ask. first question i'd ask is where is our ultimate destination, or is it just a journey with no end?



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27 Jun 2016, 7:35 pm

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.....where is our ultimate destination, or is it just a journey with no end?

Good question!!

Another one I'd like to know, is: Why do some really good people have to suffer so much, while some really mean, terrible people seem to skate through life?







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27 Jun 2016, 7:47 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
.....where is our ultimate destination, or is it just a journey with no end?

Good question!!

Another one I'd like to know, is: Why do some really good people have to suffer so much, while some really mean, terrible people seem to skate through life?

for that to make any sense at all, one must entertain the concepts of karma and reincarnation.



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30 Jun 2016, 8:02 am

I would claw my way to hell.


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30 Jun 2016, 2:40 pm

^^^^what's so good about hell?



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30 Jun 2016, 8:10 pm

I would rather burn with a rebel than serve a monsterous mass-murdeder of newborn children(aka god)


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30 Jun 2016, 8:17 pm

be careful what you wish for. it might come true.



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30 Jun 2016, 8:23 pm

And i would have personal talks with satan on the workings. Show him to change it to fit punishment and redemption for those who can be redeemed, not make it what his enemy wants it to be, which is just torture for billions of people, amny of whom did nothing wrong. And besides, i don't believ in either of them or the afterlife.


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30 Jun 2016, 8:35 pm

I am curious as to the exact nature of purgatory?



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30 Jun 2016, 8:40 pm

Is this a question towards me?


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30 Jun 2016, 8:45 pm

^^^^
no. if it had been, it would have been prefaced with a quote of your statement, or with a "^^^^" pointing above.



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01 Jul 2016, 3:24 pm

I'm an atheist so don't believe in gods or heavens. However, one night I had a dream that I had died and there were large black bat-like creatures coming up from the ground heading towards me, presumably to take me away to hell and I remember thinking "Oh bugger, the Christians were right!" :lol:



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01 Jul 2016, 3:40 pm

^^^had you, by any chance, recently watched the movie "Ghost"?