November 30, 2011

  • Do you believe in heaven and/or hell? Why or why not?


    Sure. I just have different ideas about what they are. I believe heaven and hell are right here, on Earth.

    I believe you make your own heaven and you make your own hell, then you live with it and then you die and spend your eternity with it.

    Why I believe this has to do with the way I believe things work. I do not believe that heaven and hell are special collectives of extremely themed spiritual nature, like what religion teaches. I do not believe there is "nothing" after death because science, itself, dictates that neither matter or energy go to "nothing".. and those are the two things of which you're composite.

    The body doesn't go to "nothing" when it dies. It merely changes form and is deposited back to the whole from which it's elements came. Why wouldn't it stand to reason that the energy base that forms our consciousness does something of the same?

    The body's former elements are subject to recommission in another body at some time, by re-absorption into the living end of the life cycle. Why wouldn't the soul be?

    So there's my "why".

    The belief is actually very simple: As this life goes on, you suffer and prosper by the decisions you make, for they create the reality you live. In death, those decisions are forever in memory to be remembered, seen and reflected on, so that suffering/prosperity you created and lived goes on with you, in spirit, constituting your personal heaven to reside in or hell to endure.
       

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