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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 2:09 pm
I guess if you're ok with everything in the bible, then be my guest and line up to go to heaven. I feel that I'm already a better person than Yahweh, or even Jesus, despite not being perfect, so I don't care to have them "fix" me.
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 3:39 pm
People voluntarily take drugs or get hypnosis to try to remove parts of themselves they don't like.
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 3:44 pm
You can't change too much in heaven or the reward of being there isn't accruing on you anymore.
Same for Hell. If you go insane or suffer a personality change while in residence, then the person that incurred the ETERNAL TORMENT isn't getting it meted out to him anymore.
And for both heaven and hell, if you aren't you anymore, what's the point ??
(like there was regardless)
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 3:52 pm
So to sum up: going to heaven is like having a lobotomy and/or being on drugs.
Hmmm...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 4:02 pm
In Hell, that lobotomy will be done without anesthetic and will have no effect.
Over and over and over.
Ouch.
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 26, 2014 at 4:50 pm
I'm tempted to say that a hell lobotomy will have no effect because a person would need their brain removed to take all that stuff seriously. But I won't.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?
July 27, 2014 at 10:01 am
Speaking personally, I don't want to change in ways that result in my not being me anymore. The premise of the heaven scenario is more that one's personality is sterilised and made to conform to everyone else's. Short of adding jackboots, I can't imagine a more inhuman and horrific proposal, let alone why it should be flaunted as desirable.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
