(February 17, 2015 at 12:38 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 17, 2015 at 1:07 am)Nope Wrote: So, there will still be torture just not the forever kind?
That's how I interpret it.
So, then what is the big deal with going there?
After all, any limited time one spends in torture, no matter how long, is literally nothing when compared to eternity.
Lets say one spends 10 million years in temporary torture. Compared to, lets say, 500 billion years, that is like about 10 hours out of a year. And 500 billion years is even less time compared to eternity.
At some time along the way to eternity, it will seem like fractions of a second. At some time after that, it diminish into nothingness,
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
