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Poll: Regarding life after death ...
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I don't believe there is any kind of afterlife whatsoever. When you die - it's lights out!
73.33%
22 73.33%
I believe that the Heaven and Hell of the Bible are very real and they are our only two options.
3.33%
1 3.33%
I believe in reincarnation or some other kind of soul metamorphosis.
3.33%
1 3.33%
I think an afterlife might be possible, but highly unlikely. I wouldn't rule it out though.
13.33%
4 13.33%
I haven't made up my mind about the existence of an afterlife.
3.33%
1 3.33%
None of these options work for me. I'll explain.
3.33%
1 3.33%
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Your Personal Hell Deluxe
#21
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
OK, let me put it this way:

If you ask me what happens when we die, I'll say "I don't know", which is the only really honest answer. We don't know much about the nature of consciousness.

If you ask me to speculate, with plenty of "perhaps" and "maybes" thrown in, I'll say I think reincarnation is a more likely model than others (Heaven, Hell, etc).

The Heaven-Hell model doesn't answer where we came from before we were born. If there is such a thing as "souls" and these things are eternal, then there must be a "herebefore" as well as a "hereafter".
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#22
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
(December 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: The Heaven-Hell model doesn't answer where we came from before we were born. If there is such a thing as "souls" and these things are eternal, then there must be a "herebefore" as well as a "hereafter".

Amazing point, I've never even given consideration to this while debating fundamentalists. What or where was the soul before it belonged to you? Plenty of people can make comments about what happens afterwards, but I doubt very many consider where it is before hand.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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#23
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
My personal hell would be not being able to shoot high powered lasers from my hands...
Cunt
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#24
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
i suppose reincarnation as something would be plausible if the soul wasnt a figmant of underactive religious and wishthinking minds.

if it was true, whose to say we'd be human or an intelligent lifeform?
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#25
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
My personal hell is being locked in a room with walls comprised entirely of televisions playing 'Yo Gabba Gabba' on an infinite loop.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#26
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
My personal hell would be becoming trapped within the body of the pope, but not being able to control him.
Cunt
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#27
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
Um... my personal hell would be being trapped in the body of the pope's altar boy and being unable to get his dick out of my asshole.
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#28
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
(December 20, 2011 at 4:18 pm)Perhaps Wrote:
(December 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: The Heaven-Hell model doesn't answer where we came from before we were born. If there is such a thing as "souls" and these things are eternal, then there must be a "herebefore" as well as a "hereafter".

Amazing point, I've never even given consideration to this while debating fundamentalists. What or where was the soul before it belonged to you? Plenty of people can make comments about what happens afterwards, but I doubt very many consider where it is before hand.

Thank you. I'd first asked that question when I was a very young child, long before I'd even thought of death. Mom and dad were talking with some others about a vacation they'd taken. I asked why I didn't remember it. They told me it was before I was born. Where was I then, I wondered? The idea that I didn't exist at some point in the past broke my very young brain. Long before I knew the word "sentience" or could have even said it, I found consciousness and the experience of reality from one sole perspective to be mind boggling.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
...      -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
...       -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
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#29
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
My personal hell would be stuck in a large room full of hot women who have absolutely no interest in sex.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#30
RE: Your Personal Hell Deluxe
...is that possible with you around?
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