I wouldn't resist, Tacky.

My mantra is "temptation wins every time."

(March 16, 2011 at 9:16 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: He does not understand "branes"

In fairness, English is not his native language and our silly, overly complex spelling rules are likely confusing (and frustrating) for any foreigner.

Agreed with everything else.

(March 16, 2011 at 2:40 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: In fairness, English is not his native language and our silly, overly complex spelling rules are likely confusing (and frustrating) for any foreigner.

English is not my native language, yes, but fortunately I think my English is fairly good in terms of spelling and grammar. See all my other posts if you don't believe me. I even used to get high grades in my Creative Writing classes. Not to mention that there are foreigners who write better English than Americans themselves which means that being a foreigner doesn't necessarily have to mean that I'm not good at it like everyone else.

(March 16, 2011 at 9:16 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: He does not understand "branes" ...

Well, I've read a whole book on this topic entitled, "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions."

Here's a visual explanation:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmic...ll_750.jpg

Branes are higher-dimensional entities which are predicted by string theory, and if two or more branes collide, they can possibly create a new universe such as ours.

There are hypothetical particles called gravitons which can travel from one brane to another and thus carry information between the branes (as you can see in the picture above). And it's possible that our souls, whatever it's made of, can travel from one brane to another in a similar way that the gravitons move freely throughout the branes. I'm not saying this is what necessarily happens to the soul, but if it does, then here's a plausible scientific explanation.

While yes, it is theoretically possible for a hell-like dimension to exist, for a given definition of hell. The existance of a hell-like dimension has never been proven, nor has it been proven that we have a soul, nor has it been proven that our "soul" if such a thing exists would travel to this hell place for conduct that does not conform the the likings of a bunch of barbarians from hundreds and thousands of years ago. So you're making several assumptions here, but then again your entire worldview is based on assumtions so why should this be any different?

(March 16, 2011 at 6:43 pm)Ubermensch Wrote: While yes, it is theoretically possible for a hell-like dimension to exist, for a given definition of hell. The existance of a hell-like dimension has never been proven, nor has it been proven that we have a soul, nor has it been proven that our "soul" if such a thing exists would travel to this hell place for conduct that does not conform the the likings of a bunch of barbarians from hundreds and thousands of years ago. So you're making several assumptions here, but then again your entire worldview is based on assumtions so why should this be any different?

What use is a hell like dimension if you yourself only extend through the 3 non-hell spatial and 1 non-hell temperal dimensions?

(March 14, 2011 at 2:32 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Assuming that Hell is a man-made idea, why do you think someone would invent such a thing?

I don't see a good reason why someone would simply make up the idea of Hell if they want more people to convert to the religion. For example, if I was told to invent a religion which includes the belief in an afterlife, and if I said that the non-believers will be punished in Hell for eternity according to this particular religion, then I obviously know that a lot of people won't like the religion because of the idea of eternal punishment. So, I would've made the afterlife a lot more nicer than eternal punishment if I wanted to increase the chance of converting people into my invented religion instead of making them feel threatened by the religion.

To keep people in, once you've convinced them that mother goose is real you can threaten them when they have doubts and let their fear cloud their judgement.

Maybe it's just a good way to threaten people who don't agree. Maybe preachers get pissed off and vent.

There are plenty of conceivable reasons, all of them more likely than Hell being real because they're all based on things that we can demonstrate to be real, greed, oppression, fear, threats etc.

Quote:English is not my native language, yes, but fortunately I think my English is fairly good in terms of spelling and grammar.

I wouldn't even have guessed that English wasn't your first language, your English seems perfect to me