If hell were real, would that really be so bad?

[Weebster]

I understand, it is similar for me. BUt a real all-consuming fire would be much, much, much more painful if it is real. My hop eis that it is not real, but I don't know that for sure. This fear hasnb't pushed me into believing a religion that doesn't make sense to me- I hope I don't regret that choice, but I just can't make any religion make sense to me.

If there is one, then I would've ended up there eventually anyway. In light of eternity, this life is a blink, A few more decades here would not really alleviate anything.

 

[GentleJerk]

Chinese Hell sounds hectic. https://china-underground.com/2011/04/27/the-eighteen-layers-of-chinese-hell/

 

[Niko66]

Don't worry, the Source/Essence of Things loves you. It definitely isn't utterly indifferent to sentient beings' incessant screams of pain.

Lol I am agnostic-atheist if it wasn't clear by my first message.

 

[Talvikki]

 

[TheBroken]

I believe there's a heaven and hell - can't prove it nor does just having belief mean I can fly or that there are such places. I live in hell so since my time is coming soon I'm putting my hope in a savior and grace to enter the better place. Again, no proof, just my beliefs and hope. The world has taken everything else from me, but can't take my hope.

 

[motel rooms]

Lol I am agnostic-atheist if it wasn't clear by my first message.

So, my efforts to convert you are in vain? We have cookies, kittens & infinite love on this side of the divide...

 

[Weebster]

So, my efforts to convert you are in vain? We have cookies, kittens & infinite love on this side of the divide...

Kittens and cookies? Pathetic. Who wants such temporal shit?

 

[Niko66]

So, my efforts to convert you are in vain? We have cookies, kittens & infinite love on this side of the divide...

Yeah, another personal reason I don't mind them is that no one has ever really tried to convert me into anything. Otherwise I'd find them annoying .

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Not to sound like an antichoice weenie but If it's possible to adapt to eternal suffering via hellfire and brimstone, then shouldn't that mean it's also possible to adapt to literally any bad circumstance one could be going through in life? If it's real (and suicide really does send you straight to hell), then it actually makes less sense to want to escape this life just to go there. Plus there's no guarantee they can't just keep finding new ways to torture someone. Maybe for some people they would reset your memory so that it stays just as brutal every time.

I'm not saying I believe in hell though or that I think it's a good idea. I personally think that even if it is adaptable, the punishment still doesn't fit the crime. No human is capable of inflicting the sort of pain hell promises (at least not for eternity) plus it just makes more sense to use that eternal amount of time instead to be able to rehabilitate each and every rotten soul no matter how long it takes.

 

[cosifantutti]

I remember in Dante's Inferno that the whole idea of hell isn't about just making you suffer and prolonging it forever, it's about torturing you inside and out until you give up hope and not once but countless times. Whether worse than the hell that life is now that's debatable.

I read Dante's inferno too. Then I started on Purgatory. I've been stuck in Pergotary since the '90s.

 

[sserafim]

Wouldn't we evolve over the eons and adapt to the fire thus becoming fire creatures? Then we can kill God!

I'm atheist/agnostic (still deciding) and personally I don't believe in hell, but if it existed, I would not want to be tormented or suffer eternally. Hell seems like a place meant to break you and for you to lose all resolve. I'd rather just suffer in this lifetime, and be done with it. I honestly think that the concept of hell exists to scare people, and exists as a deterrent (against suicide for example).

I believe in reincarnation though, and I think the idea of reincarnation makes more sense than heaven or hell.