Cash__ wrote:
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Would you choose Hell?
No, yet I was born anyways.
Can't believe I missed this genius comment. I feel the same way.
For the religious and specifically Christians, they will be aware that Satan was cast down to earth and that this is literally hell. If you want, you can consider this as the material side of the coin (mind experiencing universe from a single body) as opposed to the spiritual side (consciousness freed from the reducing valve of the brain) which can be at least temporarily experienced through psychedelics, meditation and near-death states. Altered states of consciousness hint at a possible mind-free-from-body stage of existence which might await us after bodily death, even if for only a matter of minutes or seconds (which, without linear time, could seem like an eternity). From a literal, metaphysical and religious standpoint, and whether we chose it or not, we are already in hell. The possibility of the continuity of consciousness opens the door to the idea that physical life constitutes a embryonic or even comatose stage of consciousness. I enjoy reading about the esoteric and occult and one idea from that world is that life is spiritual death and death is a spiritual (re)birth.
That's just my current belief system, however, so please ignore it or incorporate it into your reality-tunnel if it helps you understand and cope with this seemingly pointless and irrational world.
