The price for being Good as opposed to being Evil.
I think so, yes. I can think of nothing better then to know that death brings the peace of nothingness to all, good and bad. I wouldn't like to think of those who have harmed me living on and on in hell, and as such don't need a 'hell' for people to suffer. I also try to be a good person for the sake of it, not the promise of 'heaven' and would be more then happy to have a little peace and nothingness to look forward to when this journey through life is over. Worms need food ya know
Yes, and that "judgement hall" is full of gods all waiting to hear you're reasons for choosing only one of them to believe in. The one god you have chosen may indeed want to send you to one particular chamber, but the other gods will democratically vote to send you to the other because you rejected them.
That is exactly what would call hell, everlasting consciousness. To be aware, always, no end, unending, try sitting in a blacked out room for as long as you can stand with only your mind for company. They have actually done this as an experiment and the volunteers couldn't take it for more then a few days. Eternity is a very very very long time. You could learn the pattern of every atom in the universe, you could watch every star burn out and die in the universe, you could experience any and ever thing you could ever want, both good and bad in order to understand it to totality. You could do this billions and billions of times over and over again, you haven't gotten through .0001 of a second in that blacked out room called self awareness or consciousness where you might not be talking about a few days that your mind can actually handle, you are talking about it never ending. Until you have gone totally mad from lack of anything new to learn or do that you haven't done trillions and trillions of times over and over again, eternity hasn't even started. Eternity is a very very very long time and it will be hell for the self aware mind eventually, no matter the goodness of that mind, especially with no body, at least you could give yourself brain damage if you had live for ever, make sure you can't remember more then 5 mins of memories. I wouldn't wish an eternity of self awareness on the most evil and vile person to have ever lived.
I don't say that I came here for anything. My mother had sex, a sperm fertilized an egg. I was born. Mom didn't ask me if I wanted to be born and couldn't have if she had wanted. As for something zapping my energy, that is your interpretation of things, not mine. Energy is closely related to matter, when you split an atom you get loads of energy (usually destructive). Speed up the rate at which something is moving and it becomes lighter, because mass is converting to energy in basic terms. Energy like matter is neither created or destroyed, it simply changes. I like to imagine it as being recycled. The energy driving the complex chemistry that is my body is electrical and has always existed in some from. Like I said in my previous post, when I die that energy might fuel some worms, who in turn fuel the body of a bird, that you eat at sunday dinner. That doesn't make me you. The energy will support a chemistry that has an awareness of 'self' but when the energy is recycled, there is nothing to support the sense of 'self'. This doesn't bother me one bit and has absolutely no bearing on how I live my life while I have it. The shortness of life is what makes it so special, and worth it. To play some part in allowing new life to form and take my place when my time is up would be the greatest honor, by living well and making the world as good a place as I am able is the only way that will happen.
This is a lovely thought. Sadly love is like hate, it can die, thankfully!
Did you know that a knock to your head and the person you love most in the world today could be someone you hate tomorrow? There are many cases of parents who love their kids more then life itself get in an accident and after, they have no feeling for their kids at all. They know they should, but its just not there. An entire personality can change if the right bit of brain is damaged. A kind person can become a violent and dangerous person, or worse. Love is one of the wonders of life, from an animal that would die to protect its young for love (not all animals will, some will happily eat their young instead) to the person who show generosity to a stranger in the name of love. It is fragile and can be destroyed so easily and yet can be so strong that an abused child will still love their abusive parent. It's like the concept of self, its brief and will fade and is made all the more valuable for it. If 'self' exists forever then its no big deal to abuse another, barely a blink of the eye for that persons existance, if however self ends with death, you couldn't commit a larger cruelty then to deprive one of the brief time with a self to have hurt. Love is the same, if it was forever, it could handle abuse but the person who abuses love is the saddest creature to live. It is downright dangerous to abuse love, it can turn to hate with ease.
I will tell my kids that I think the killer must have lived a life I cannot imagine in order to become a killer, and that I think it is probably beyond sad. I would have to be hurt pretty badly to kill someone, or be in grave danger. I cannot live the life of a single other person so who am I to judge them? I know only what I am capable of and when I fall short of that. I know that what I am capable of is limited and I enjoy the space I have within those limitations. I manage to live a life I think is pretty good. I help children cross the road safely every day and I get lots of smiles. I get them every day! I also get called a tomato, and a banana head, to which I reply 'I'm not a tomato, your a tomato!'. That gets more then just a smile, it usually gets a laugh from the kids, the moms and me.
Give me a moment of joy and you can have your eternity if you want it, I would advise you really think about it tho. You might be asking for something more then you can handle
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