03-24-2010, 12:04 AM
Wow, what a great collection of quotes, Cyclops, thank you. It all resonates so well.
Hell is an amazing concept, and very, very powerful in many peoples lives. Millions of people. I myself used to be really quite terrified of it when I was growing up. It kept me in line for the most part- well, for a while at least.
When you pause to think about it- what better way could you possibly have to control people? It's my opinion that Hell is a construct of the church for that very purpose. It reeks of STS design in my view. "Love Jesus, or else..."
If anything like hell exists even remotely it is on Earth. We have all seen or heard of the horrors of the holocaust, or of starving people in small countries, or of warfare. We can create any kind of reality we wish to create. And yet, in contrast to the religious version of hell, nobody enters without knowing full well what they're in for. We write the rough draft of our lives before incarnation.
There is one other possibility I have read about from another channeled source. In this scenario one could descend in to a firey hellish place after death, but only in the circumstance where one believed in hell 100% during his or her lifetime, and before dying was convinced that that's where they were going. This would be an artifact of freewill, again. However once in "hell", as soon as that entity started feeling any discomfort and wished to be out of it, they would be out of it. And simultaneously they would realize that they create their own reality. The only ones who would not do this (if any) would be true masochists. But of course, since they would be enjoying where they were, it really couldn't be called hell. The above circumstance is, I suspect, so totally rare that I hesitated to even mention it.
Hell is an amazing concept, and very, very powerful in many peoples lives. Millions of people. I myself used to be really quite terrified of it when I was growing up. It kept me in line for the most part- well, for a while at least.
When you pause to think about it- what better way could you possibly have to control people? It's my opinion that Hell is a construct of the church for that very purpose. It reeks of STS design in my view. "Love Jesus, or else..."If anything like hell exists even remotely it is on Earth. We have all seen or heard of the horrors of the holocaust, or of starving people in small countries, or of warfare. We can create any kind of reality we wish to create. And yet, in contrast to the religious version of hell, nobody enters without knowing full well what they're in for. We write the rough draft of our lives before incarnation.
There is one other possibility I have read about from another channeled source. In this scenario one could descend in to a firey hellish place after death, but only in the circumstance where one believed in hell 100% during his or her lifetime, and before dying was convinced that that's where they were going. This would be an artifact of freewill, again. However once in "hell", as soon as that entity started feeling any discomfort and wished to be out of it, they would be out of it. And simultaneously they would realize that they create their own reality. The only ones who would not do this (if any) would be true masochists. But of course, since they would be enjoying where they were, it really couldn't be called hell.
The above circumstance is, I suspect, so totally rare that I hesitated to even mention it.