i have a tendancy to believe in hell as the living metaphor rather than an actual place where the soul goes upon dying.
(death in my view is little more than the disintigration of focused energy and matter back into the soup of the universe...which more or less argues that the sum of our parts collectively (our bodies) simply returns itself to inert available matter for the larger sum of the universal part and/or consciousness....but i digress)
in this scenario, heaven, hell, limbo etc. all exist here on earth in stasis within our own perception and experience and do not exist in the postscript of our lives.
the concepts, i believe, are derivitive of the base elements of positive and negative.
further i would suggest that what is hell to one might be heaven to another depending upon the bent of the collective parts that make the person. in other words...to a positive man, hell is a place where a surplus of negativity exists...to a negative man, hell exits in a positive experience.
most religious doctrine is and was used to explain the fundemental workings of the universe in regards to these matters but started from the git go as a way of surpressing one or the other from passing through life without consequence.
who will go to hell?
i would suggest that half of the people on this board are probably already there on one level or another.
some are in heaven.
its a sliding scale of course.
some folks being closer to limbo.
to some in hell it is heaven.
for some in heaven...it is a living hell.
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