Do you believe in hell?

Duke · 03-09-2005, 04:00 AM

I'm not sure that this is a good topic but I'm really just curious.

If you do believe in it, what is your idea of hell?

Vautrin · 03-09-2005, 10:20 AM

Sartre said: Hell is other people.

I say: Hell is the place where you are not allowed to speak in first person about yourself.

Star · 03-09-2005, 10:32 AM

I believe there's a heaven so I do believe there's a hell too.

I'm not sure if I believe that the world we live in now is hell or if the soul goes to hell like it does heaven. I'm not sure I really want to find the answer to that question out actually. I think I like the thought of going to heaven better then to hell.

Stone · 03-09-2005, 10:47 AM

This is HELL :? :evil: :evil:

Vautrin · 03-09-2005, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Stone

This is HELL :? :evil: :evil:

Somehow it is a strange thing to read, if you look at Stone's avatar.

Samson · 03-09-2005, 11:47 PM

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I'm not sure that this is a good topic but I'm really just curious.

"Good" in the sence that it isn't heavenly? :roll:

Hell, I think is a useful tool that western religions use to extort money from the gullible and certainly more effective than involking the "Boogie Man" in order to persuade children to return home after dark.

Duke · 03-10-2005, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Stone

This is HELL :? :evil: :evil:

I'm not entirely sure what you mean :?

twinkle · 03-10-2005, 04:07 AM

I think I understand her. Heather must be visiting some dark places right now. I am also, but certainly not the same way she does...

If we're dead, where does that leave the conscience of our own body and of our own life? I think that's the question. If when you die it's the same as when you are given birth, you forget everything ... I don't know.

As much as I take my thrength out of God and religion, I am convinced there's nothing after death. Hell, heaven are abstract things, yet wrapped in notions that us, as humans, can understand. These are tools that help us have a term of comparison. What's right and what's wrong. I believe that the notions of right and wrong are a bit overrated, once you go to space, let's say .And what we did is only change the place. What if you change the dimension?

Hell is on Earth and on Earth exclusively.

Merika · 03-10-2005, 08:35 AM

I believe whatever God says in the Bible. He says we will live forever bcause we have an eternal soul. We will either live it IN His presence or OUT of his presence. For now....He says the sun will shine and the rain will fall on good and evil alike. One day though....that won't be the case. Hell is merely being separated from the presence of God.

Stone · 03-10-2005, 08:45 AM

I believe LIving here is a lesson or school sort of speak for our eternity.

Merika · 03-10-2005, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Stone

I believe LIving here is a lesson or school sort of speak for our eternity.

Well...it certainly has taught me that you that you can't live it happy without God in it...and that when you goof with His guidelines...it always comes back to bite you in the butt. LOL!

Duke · 03-11-2005, 04:20 AM

I'm pretty happy and I'm not aware if God is or isn't in my life.

Merika · 03-11-2005, 10:22 AM

Yeah....but God's gonna keep nudging you until you know differently. He never gives up.

Duke · 03-11-2005, 11:43 AM

Well He better be a bit more obvious about His signs because so far I've seen nothing obvious.

Merika · 03-11-2005, 02:14 PM

I've never known it to be outwardly obvious. It's just a nagging feeling inside of you.

Stone · 03-11-2005, 03:13 PM

He has made it Obvious to me SEVERAL Times to the point where it's scarry, I'll post that story in the religion thread when I get home.

Samson · 03-11-2005, 09:08 PM

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It's just a nagging feeling inside of you.

I've found decreasing the amount of liquids I have before bedtime usually prevents this.

Duke · 03-12-2005, 03:03 AM

rofl

Just stay away from the coffee, tea and pop, anything with caffeine in it, there all diuretics and make you lose water.

Maybe one day I'll see some reason to go and pray but for now I don't really see one. I guess the whole idea of praying to someone I can't see or feel, that may or may not have ever existed is hard for me. I just don't know.

Star · 03-12-2005, 05:45 AM

I pray on occasion here at home. I don't go to church though because I hate church and all it's politics.

I believe that little voice you hear inside of your head is god speaking to you. God does work in mysterious ways. Things happening, good or bad is all part of his plan. that's what i believe.

twinkle · 03-12-2005, 05:53 AM

This is not about praying or about God. It's about your beliving that HELL exists.

Do you?

Star · 03-12-2005, 05:58 AM

Like I mentioned on an earlier post, I do believe in hell. If there's a heaven there has to be a hell. I'm just not sure if it's here on earth or not.

Duke · 03-12-2005, 09:23 AM

I'm not entirely sure if I believe in the existance of Heaven or Hell to be completely honest. I believe that life on Earth is only a small part of your souls journey but I have no idea what the rest of it may be.

Star · 03-12-2005, 10:27 AM

Do you really want to find out? I don't. Not right now anyhow. I think the only way we'll really really know the answers to that is when we die. I'm not ready to die just yet. :?

Duke · 03-12-2005, 08:32 PM

It wasn't so much about finding out in the existence of it, it was if you believed in the idea of there being hell.

Star · 03-12-2005, 08:41 PM

i do believe in it because i do believe in heaven. but, then i have my doubts also. it's reallyhard not to have doubts about things when you can't see them.

03-09-2005, 04:00 AM	#1
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	Do you believe in hell? I'm not sure that this is a good topic but I'm really just curious. If you do believe in it, what is your idea of hell? __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-09-2005, 10:32 AM	#3
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	I believe there's a heaven so I do believe there's a hell too. I'm not sure if I believe that the world we live in now is hell or if the soul goes to hell like it does heaven. I'm not sure I really want to find the answer to that question out actually. I think I like the thought of going to heaven better then to hell. __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

03-11-2005, 04:20 AM	#12
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	I'm pretty happy and I'm not aware if God is or isn't in my life. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-11-2005, 11:43 AM	#14
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	Well He better be a bit more obvious about His signs because so far I've seen nothing obvious. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-12-2005, 03:03 AM	#18
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	rofl Just stay away from the coffee, tea and pop, anything with caffeine in it, there all diuretics and make you lose water. Maybe one day I'll see some reason to go and pray but for now I don't really see one. I guess the whole idea of praying to someone I can't see or feel, that may or may not have ever existed is hard for me. I just don't know. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-09-2005, 10:20 AM	#2
Vautrin Administrator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Between thought and expression My Communication Style: Experience, Supportive Posts: 10,643	Sartre said: Hell is other people. I say: Hell is the place where you are not allowed to speak in first person about yourself.

03-09-2005, 10:47 AM	#4
Stone Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,862	This is HELL :? :evil: :evil:

03-10-2005, 04:07 AM	#8
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	I think I understand her. Heather must be visiting some dark places right now. I am also, but certainly not the same way she does... If we're dead, where does that leave the conscience of our own body and of our own life? I think that's the question. If when you die it's the same as when you are given birth, you forget everything ... I don't know. As much as I take my thrength out of God and religion, I am convinced there's nothing after death. Hell, heaven are abstract things, yet wrapped in notions that us, as humans, can understand. These are tools that help us have a term of comparison. What's right and what's wrong. I believe that the notions of right and wrong are a bit overrated, once you go to space, let's say .And what we did is only change the place. What if you change the dimension? Hell is on Earth and on Earth exclusively.

03-10-2005, 08:35 AM	#9
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	I believe whatever God says in the Bible. He says we will live forever bcause we have an eternal soul. We will either live it IN His presence or OUT of his presence. For now....He says the sun will shine and the rain will fall on good and evil alike. One day though....that won't be the case. Hell is merely being separated from the presence of God.

03-10-2005, 08:45 AM	#10
Stone Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,862	I believe LIving here is a lesson or school sort of speak for our eternity.

03-11-2005, 10:22 AM	#13
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	Yeah....but God's gonna keep nudging you until you know differently. He never gives up.

03-11-2005, 02:14 PM	#15
Merika Retired Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 13,207	I've never known it to be outwardly obvious. It's just a nagging feeling inside of you.

03-11-2005, 03:13 PM	#16
Stone Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,862	He has made it Obvious to me SEVERAL Times to the point where it's scarry, I'll post that story in the religion thread when I get home.

03-12-2005, 05:45 AM	#19
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	I pray on occasion here at home. I don't go to church though because I hate church and all it's politics. I believe that little voice you hear inside of your head is god speaking to you. God does work in mysterious ways. Things happening, good or bad is all part of his plan. that's what i believe. __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

03-12-2005, 05:53 AM	#20
twinkle Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,254	This is not about praying or about God. It's about your beliving that HELL exists. Do you?

03-12-2005, 05:58 AM	#21
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	Like I mentioned on an earlier post, I do believe in hell. If there's a heaven there has to be a hell. I'm just not sure if it's here on earth or not. __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

03-12-2005, 09:23 AM	#22
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	I'm not entirely sure if I believe in the existance of Heaven or Hell to be completely honest. I believe that life on Earth is only a small part of your souls journey but I have no idea what the rest of it may be. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-12-2005, 10:27 AM	#23
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	Do you really want to find out? I don't. Not right now anyhow. I think the only way we'll really really know the answers to that is when we die. I'm not ready to die just yet. :? __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

03-12-2005, 08:32 PM	#24
Duke Founder Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Under your bed. My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 25,259	It wasn't so much about finding out in the existence of it, it was if you believed in the idea of there being hell. __________________ My Daughter Rules! "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."

03-12-2005, 08:41 PM	#25
Star Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada My Communication Style: Honest, Supportive Posts: 5,635	i do believe in it because i do believe in heaven. but, then i have my doubts also. it's reallyhard not to have doubts about things when you can't see them. __________________ *Life is what you make of it. Make it happen.*

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