RE: What the bible says Hell is like
August 9, 2016 at 10:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2016 at 10:30 pm by emjay.)
Apologies if this is off topic but thread about hell and thinking about hell, I just wanted to share a thought. In times of extreme trauma or torture, dissociation can happen in the mind, separating the self from the pain. So putting aside all the other objections, unless Christianity postulates that our minds are substantially different in operation in hell, it would be likely dissociation would occur and everyone would feel like they were floating above themselves, looking down on themselves but not feeling any pain. Just wanted to put that out there because the idea of hell fails in so many ways if an actual human mind, with its qualities and llimitations, is the subject. Likewise, even without dissociation, trance states like self-hypnosis or meditation... for instance would a Buddhist, practiced in non-attachment, even care enough about those sensations, however unpleasant? Maybe not. So with a human mind and its abilities and defences, the idea of hell seems fundamentally flawed to me. So just wanted to dump that thought.