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Originally Posted by fruglemonkey
First of all, if we could only have bliss or torment, we would not be able to call it bliss or torment. We can only experience one, if we have experienced the other (ie you can only feel heartbroken if you loved something, in the first place)
Second, if we could only feel bliss, would we be in paradise? If we lost the capability to feel anything other than bliss, we wouldn't be free, in a sense. And that wouldn't be paradise, but just a different version of hell.
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We would be able to call it bliss or torment, in comparison to what we interpret these emotions/feelings as now. We can distinguish when we are happy and when we are not, so Heaven as its always been referred to me, can basically isolate and lock us into those feelings which we now interpret to be bliss/torment.
Is that my idea of happiness? No. Do I believe in an afterlife in the sense that we're all chillin' out at the pearly gates? Of course not.
My personal belief is somewhat of a take on reincarnation in the collective unconscious sense, and rebirth in the more physical sense perhaps best exemplified by the old alchemical viewpoints.