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dekoi
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-Aldous Huxley
Could our contemporary society be an example of "hell" in the future?
Could our current society be looked at as a 'hell' by another alien life?
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-Aldous Huxley
Erazman said:honestly I am never happy for a long period of time. To me, happiness comes in quick spurts (literally).
ah hell, humanity goes through cycles, like everything else. perhaps you see the downward spiral as being negative. while i agree that we have problems, i also see that it is motivating change.dekoi said:Olde drunk: you are referring to a theological type of hell and heaven. Although i would disagree with you on that subject, i am here referring to a 'a hell on Earth' -- a decay of humanity so to speak.
wuliheron said:According to Buddhism, Earth is one of seven hells.
When you die, they read the Tibetian Book of the Dead over your body. Basically it just says things like "A ball of green light will approach and you will feel overwhelming envey... just ignore it, it will go away." If you give into the temptation, that is the hell you are reincarnated in.
Dayle Record said:Here is my strange theory of the week. A couple of years ago it was reported that the first poetry was discovered, and it was by a woman, a Babylonian priestess (I think), something of that sort. She was wailing in this poem about why God would bring this terrible destruction upon them? Why there was this killing fire in the sky that was destroying so grievously her world? Suddenly this popped into my head today, and I wondered, what if we are only vaguely separated from all of time and being, and her complaints, coming to us from 6000 years ago, are actually about things happening in her time due to what we are doing in her area, in this time? What if things are a lot more delicate than we can imagine? What if the hellish actions we take in this time, move through time, and influence or damage time its self. Now the tremendous power of the Sun is a part of what we all share and have shared, it isn't constant, but it is a constant of existence, both its energy and its embrace. Maybe our acts are so extraordinary, and contrary to the process of life, that they do damage across a spectrum, we do not yet understand? Maybe that Buddist thing of doing no harm, and staying unattached has to do with leaving the fabric of time intact?
Erazman said:honestly I am never happy for a long period of time. To me, happiness comes in quick spurts (literally).
decibel said:you guys know what sucks?...we will NEVER know if god exists or not, or if there's a heaven or hell, or what happens after one dies.
yeah! and since there are an infinite number of questions we should have the answer to at least 3/4 of them by then. I think the deity question gets answered 1 or 2 questions before infinity.Smurf said:well you might never know (but i intend to find out), but in 2000 years we would have discovered many answers to questions we havn't even asked yet, we will know what death and life really are, and the 'diety' question isn't a large step from there.
Impossible? said:And about the God thing, we are all so wrapped up in being better than everything else, that we think we are capable of understanding God! If we were granted with this divine understanding, God would not be testing our faith. Humans are simply not intelligent enough to understand God.
tribdog said:yeah! and since there are an infinite number of questions we should have the answer to at least 3/4 of them by then. I think the deity question gets answered 1 or 2 questions before infinity.
Smurf said:The Deity Question will be answered sooner or later provided there is still intelligent life out there, but by the time we do figure it out our idea of an 'important' question will be so much more 'important' than that boring theory that's been tossed around for the last 10000 years.
point taken, but I'll bet we can ask almost half of infinity.Smurf said:If there are an infinite number of questions, can you name 3/4 of them? Have you even thought of the smallest fraction of them? In 2000 years we will have 2000 more years of new knowledge, and 2000 more years of new questions that 2000 years ago, we couldn't even comprehend. Rinse and Repeat, I wish I could live forever.
The Deity Question will be answered sooner or later provided there is still intelligent life out there, but by the time we do figure it out our idea of an 'important' question will be so much more 'important' than that boring theory that's been tossed around for the last 10000 years.
I think that's one of the most interesting things is that it WON'T have any value, and it will cease to exist, humanity will take a whole new direction. I am not religious and Faith always seemed more like stupidity to me, Believing something because you believe it, I hate people who believe "CNN is the most trusted name in new's" just because they say they are, and to me I can't tell the difference between this and that.dekoi said:Disagree. Like i said before, the God argument will not be completely proven. If it was completely proven, faith would have no value.