Do you believe in God and do you think we go to hell for committing suicide? Or what do you think happens after we die?
Do I believe in God?
Well, kind of. My way of looking at it is that the Universe in its entirety is an intelligent being, and everything that exists is a component of that being.
I don't have a problem anymore (I used to) with calling that being 'God' because I think that all religions, despite their contradictions, primitive understandings (I don't mean that in a derogatory way; it's just that almost all sacred texts have passages that clearly reflect a more limited understanding of reality than we have today), and easy-to-interpret-however-the-hell-you-want passages, do offer a basic and somewhat valid perspective on the totality of the Universe.
But instead of relying on one ancient, archaic text to make sense of my world for me, I have explored them all (or most of them). The fascinating thing to me is, if you really put the pieces together, you can find common threads that connect Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, quantum mechanics, and some cracked out theories about Oneness that somebody had while tripping balls in their parents' basement. So to me, no religion is the TRUTH. Each is just a perspective of something greater than the sum of its parts.
I don't believe in a literal hell, as in an eternal lake of fire, and I don't believe that God "punishes" people for committing suicide.
I believe that "hell" is a state that we've already all been intimately familiar with. Hell is the confusion of life. Hell is being cut off from love. Hell is being rejected and stomped on by people who put themselves first and don't give a shit about us. Hell is growing up in a society that doesn't make any goddamn sense to someone who puts the slightest bit of sustained thought into it. Hell is having no viable choice but to end your life. So if you do end your life, I don't think you're going to hell, at least not a worse hell than what you've already been through.
My perspective on what happens when we die is easiest to understand if first you perceive time in a certain way.
My perception of time is that it seems linear from our human perspectives, but in actuality it is quite non-linear. Meaning that quite literally on some level, everything that's ever happened, is happening right now, and ever will happen is all happening simultaneously.
From the human perspective, it seems like the past happened before we were born and the future will happen after we die, but if we understand 1) that it's all happening at once and our perception of time is an illusion, and 2) all living things that seem separate are actually One and that separation itself is also an illusion, then....
Well, the soul that's inside your body is the same soul that's inside my body. I experience it as me, you experience it as you, Genghis Khan experienced it as Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler experienced it as Hitler, but ultimately, it's the same soul simultaneously experiencing infinite vantage points of reality throughout what we all perceive as the past, present, and future.
You still with me here? If so, I just love your spunk.
I could complicate this further with multiverse theories that blow my mind, but let me wrap this up and get to what I believe happens when we die.
I believe we go back to the source. We go back to Oneness. The illusion of separation dissipates. The dream of reality ends. We remember our true nature. And then we probably get bored with all that and repeat the whole hellish life thing all over again because we're a bunch of masochistic fucks.
That's my basic theory on things, anyway. What is your working theory?
Are you doing this because you want to become a psychiatrist or something
I would rather choke on a bag of stinky dicks than be a psychiatrist. I just haven't been to this forum in a while and the people here have been in my mind lately. It seems like many of the ones I bonded with are inactive now, but in all honesty I just really love and respect these forums and want to give back to them, because they've offered so much to me.
Well being honest in the first line of that was a very rude reply and most here most likely dont want to chat . And someone who.knows what its like to.be depressed hunny I dont go down that road. I am around 30yrs and battling depression since the age of 8. I am on meds that would power your house at this rate. I know only to well what it is what it feels like and where it comes from..
however not all feel that way some could have a very healthy very happy life and they decided to leave the earth. In another words a CHOICE a choice to live or a choice to be at peace...
OK. Question. Why are you engaging with me on a communications forum if you don't want to chat?
