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Originally posted by Pennington
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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I think Pennington is right on the money here. The movie "What Dreams May Come" sums it up for me. In heaven you get to see the people you love and share the joy of that love. You also get to do whatever you can imagine because your thoughts create your reality. In hell you end up in utter dispair, loneliness, and desolation never knowing love or joy.