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Poll: ....will you accept God?
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IF in the end, you find that God does exist ....
RE: IF in the end, you find that God does exist ....
(June 2, 2015 at 12:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Eternity sounds like a long time to be one's self.  I don't know how my positions might change over eternity, or even that there would be any reason to call that changed self..an eternity from now, the same self.  Admittedly, most of my own personal bells and whistles are based on the expected shortness of my existence.  I think that this might be in the periphery of 

"after you've been tortured in hell you may change your tune"

-I may, but as with eternity above......it's difficult to argue that there is continuity of self.....regarding extreme torture.  I could be tormented with hot coals, or tormented with time..and either might coerce me.  But in the here and now..before being tortured or tormented...the only self I can make statements for - says I'd remain as uninterested in death as I am in life.

This.

In truth I could only answer the question the OP poses dependent on the specific beliefs of the poster regarding the said consequences of my decision.  For example, many christians we've debated on these forums believe that Hell is merely a place for the soul to go and die.  Chad Wooter once wrote that hell is more of a place for non believers to hang out and party simply without the benefits of god being around.  (although I can see none).  Still more christians believe that Hell is a place of eternal fiery torture ... excuse me torment - I wouldn't want to offend our local christards and say that god 'tortures' the unbeliever.  He only "torments" them.  

Whatever.  The point is that I would rather have death and peace without consciousness than accept that narcissistic bastard's "gift" of eternal life.  
900 trillion years in heaven of worshiping a self-absorbed, self-proclaimed angry, wrathful, jealous, genocidal, vindictive, blood-thirsty, racist god who loves himself more than he could ever love anything or anyone else??  Hmmm ... what are my options again?
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RE: IF in the end, you find that God does exist .... - by Cinjin - June 3, 2015 at 7:21 pm

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