If you don’t believe a certain way you go to Hell?

Well either way you get an everlasting afterlife and either way it’s eventually going to get boring.

Christianity is basically a lose/lose situation

If there is a God out there who is pissed off at you for having questions, is that the kind of god that deserves worship? Hypothetical situation: there is a boy who has only ever seen one girl in his whole life. Do you think she is flattered when he tells her he loves her, that she is the only girl for him? How much more would it mean to her if he searched the entire world, saw every girl out there, came back and said “you are the one for me, no one is like you, i love you”? If we never branch out and look at things for ourselves with an open and skeptical mind, if one tiny point of view is all we know, then does your praise for God mean anything? Does it mean anything if you believe out of fear and ignorance?
You don’t have to completely subscribe to a particular world view to learn about it. Just be open, skeptical, smart, and empathetic. See where it leads you. And if there is a god worthy of worship, he will be glad you did so.

@Keenan

Naah, heaven is supposed to be awesome,.. but never been there yet myself

I think hell is just a state of mind (that a vast majority of people live in!).
@ Keenan “Christianity is basically a lose/lose situation” haha you should devise a poster that says that :)

Hell is earthly ignorance to truth. Truth is an uncertain future and realization of happiness within it.

@ Dan

Well stated, but I’m kind of confused on what you mean in the second paragraph. It just seems to me that you’d fall under the label of agnostic atheist as well, please explain if you disagree.

@ Dan

That’s a funny connotation, maybe it was my username that implicitly primed your mind to associate the word agnostic with amish, seeing that my username seems pretty close to it as well. But I think labels suck anyways so it doesn’t really matter.

I’m confused on how it is impossible for people to integrate their externalized inner-self into their personality if it’s that external inner-self that it shaping their beliefs in the first place. And I think people can be whoever they feel that they are, as in the case of Brandon Teena(portrayed in the movie Boys Don’t Cry) who was a biological female but felt that he was a male. Therefore as far as I am concerned, he was.

I don’t know, might have misunderstood what you wrote. Need to get to sleep in order to wake up for school at 2 pm haha.

@ Animus
You make it unattainable when you turn it into an object/character outside from yourself, no?

Hell is not a place.
Maybe if you don’t believe a certain way you do ‘go to hell’
Maybe those who deny their lives, and even more deny their own deaths go to ‘hell’ I’ve thought about it a lot. It’s like going to your dreamland, everything there is so familiar. Maybe because of DMT?
But Imagine when you die, you just go off to live in the dreamworld where you create the reality around you. Those who deny this whole process could enter a ‘void’ where there is just darkness. They are aware of darkness, but they don’t even have themselves to think about it, because in their hell, they don’t even exist.
Maybe that’s why people try to reach enlightenment. Heaven on earth..

@Taylor. Well, in a way. That would require us to define the word life first. However, I’ve never seen any reason to believe that life just stops. We don’t even really know what death is. I just simply believe after we die we enter a progressively more ‘real’ version of ‘life’ and the universe. A constant upward progression. To me, the more natural way of the universe is creation. Reality is extremely subjective.
What I meant about denying their lives, is that people sometimes have a tendency to do anything and everything that is bad for them. Some people don’t give a shit about themselves or their lives. Some people just refuse to live.
In all honesty, whatever is after death is the more ‘real’ version of the way things should be anyways. You spend only a small fraction of your time alive, and the rest dead. How do we even know we didn’t even put ourselves here? In theory, I could be a fish swimming around in a fishbowl, and my brain is tricking me into believing I am a human being with bigger and better things to do (but really, I’m just swimming along) Our brains are capable of doing this to us.