What makes you think that we don't believe in some kind of afterlife? Just because we don't believe in a Supreme Being doesn't mean we think that it's all going to be just black after we die...

I personally am content to wait and see. I think what is most likely is Reincarnation, but that's just what I think will happen. The only evidence for Reincarnation is very weak (people who recall past lives and things), but since there can never be any evidence at all in favour of Heaven or just Blackness, I choose Reincarnation...

[I'm not trying to start an argument here, by the way. I'm not just saying that there IS no evidence, but it stands to reason that there can never be, since if you believe in Heaven, then you believe that there's no coming back. Reincarnation is the only belief that could possibly have any evidence for it, so I choose it.]

Apart from anything else, it's what I would want to be true, which is what Religion is based on, anyway...

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Originally posted by Fazerina: According to you that's where I'm going, so where's the difference?

*sigh* Please don't get her going... We all know that Pinky feels uncomfortable telling people that she thinks they're going to Hell, and a comment like that could only be counterproductive... As Luke said, we're doing so well...

[Sorry if I sound arrogant or patronising here, but I am simply being cautious in light of past altercations...]

Yeah.. I felt kinda guilty after posting when I read Luke's reply..:o

i don't really have much to say, except kudos for those of us, well all of us, who kept cool heads throughout this entire discussion.
this was a very 'productive' discusssion, what with no fights getting in the way.
i do like the idea of reincarnation, as it seems the most likely to me...
i also like the idea my mom once gave me..and I quote,
"But what if our universe as we know it, is just like some fish tank in a persons living room?"
it's not the best, but it certainly appeals to me.
anyway, i'm rambling again...

Um no...that's not what I meant by Hell......

Also Dan, you lied because I don't think that everyone is going to Hell. You don't know what I think so don't tell me what I'm thinking, iight?

If I was reincarnated, I would be a g-string!:D LOL j/k

i cant stand to live another mans/womens life i would feel that my soul had been changed and my last self was just an outfit.
My belief is whatever you have faith in is what you shall get.

people who believe in god will get god
people who believe in satan will get satan
people who believe in nothing will get nothing
people who believe in reincarnation will get reincarnation
people who belive in white fluffy puff daddies will get white fluffy puff daddies

It is all based on faith

Kudos. My thoughts exactly.

Don't be provokative. I did not lie, what I said was "Pinky feels uncomfortable telling people that she thinks they're going to Hell", and you do. You've said so before. I've asked you the question, and you've replied "I'd rather not answer." I wasn't being provokative or insulting, I was stating a fact in order to prevent some kind of argument. Trust you to try and turn my peacekeeping attempts into rows...

I like that, appreciate that, respect that, and more or less agree with that. It may not be true, but if I were running the Universe, that's how I'd do it...

One question, though:How is it possible to believe in one without believing in the other? I was under the impression that you, for example, believed in both...

[Note for provocateurs: This is an honest question...]

I beleive what oddbodd mean't was that if you truely believed you would go to heaven you would go to heaven, if you truely believe you would go to hell you would go to hell. unfortunatly I get the bad end of that, I go to nothingness.

I believe in Santa Clause, so I will get Santa Clause.

Steve, nothingness isn't necesarily a bad thing. You wont have any reservations about nothingness when you not even your thoughts exist. I'd go as far as to say there's a sense of beauty in eternal nothingness. *wipes tear from eye*

But who really believes they are going to Hell? Not Hitler. Not Bin Laden. Not Nixon. Not Hussein. Nobody. (Or as near to nobody as makes no odds...)

Heaven must be crowded...

EDIT: *has a sudden thought* Where do Agnostics go?

Agnostics are doomed to spend eternity wandering around the universe, never knowing. Either that or they have to make do with the left-over beliefs. :D

*raises eyebrow* Hitler eh?

Beg pardon?