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Human - Good point about knowing pleasure and pain in the present life and that being remembered in the afterlife. But you have to remember that eternity is really a long time. Sure the first millenia or two of pain will be pretty bad but you will sometime reach a point where the pain becomes a moot point. Same thing with heaven.
Many claim that hell is just the lack of God's love. That there is no hope of knowing god in hell. To me, this is just like a friend dying. You now lack that person's love and you have no hope of ever seeing him again. You get sad, you mourn, but you get over it.
Pleasure in heaven is supposedly like love. You feel God's love, friends love and humanity's love. All the time. Hell is a lack of this love. Some hold that in heaven there is physical pleasure and in hell there is physical pain and fear. I don't see this as true. Physical things have no place in a spiritual world. So in my version of hell, there is just a complete lack of joy and love for eternity, which is pretty bad. I heaven its all joy and love for eternity, which iss just as bad. Me, I'd rather just reach Nirvana and be over with it.
fyi- I'm a unitarian universalist who doesn't believe in heaven, hell or a personal god. I'm just one notch above being an athiest.
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