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My idea of Heaven would be, that it'd be a place where you get to spend as long as you want there before deciding to move on. Like whether you want to comeback as someone new or want to be an angel or want to do something on a cosmic or spiritual scale that contributes to the bigger picture. You're free from all suffering, regret, torment and guilt.

The idea of Hell is, is you get planted into two potential places aside from the commonly registered idea of hell that's depicted. One place is solitary confinement, for your spirit. No contact, nothing. Whatever you suffered with, still remains and nothing or nobody will bother with you.

Another place, is where you get to relive your better dreams and memories. But they're going to be fucked with until they're nightmares, robbing you of ever reliving the pleasantries that they once provided you. It'll be like partaking in a bad sitcom and you're its star. You're here in this idea of hell for quite the eternity, you don't get choice as to when you want to leave or what you do with your spirit.

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[-] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting ideas.

My idea of Heaven: no place, but reincarnation. That way all the 'good' people will be inhabiting the earth. They have the opportunity to be evil in that life, and then they would go to hell. If they keep continuing to be good, they keep getting reincarnated.

My idea of Hell: Nothing. Just pure death.

What would the criteria of going to heaven or hell? No idea.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

I don't believe in any afterlife.

[-] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

They say that life's a carousel

Spinning fast, you gotta ride it well

The world is full of Kings and Queens

Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams

It's Heaven and Hell, oh well

And they'll tell you black is really white

The moon is just the sun at night

And when you walk in golden halls

You get to keep the gold that falls

It's Heaven and Hell, oh no

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

My heaven could not exist if hell is also real.

The very concept of hell is abominable to me.

[-] UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Heaven and hell are individual: what the mind creates from the worldview it has built up until death, that one must experience as cells in the brain die and connections sever. One's final dream, so to speak.

So if you have built strong convictions of the existence of either, neither, or something else entirely - your brain will default to the imagery that you yourself have constructed up to that point in the brief moment that those connections still exist.

[-] LucJenson@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think there's a benevolent all-powerful being, so I'm not even sure I believe that there's a good vs. bad place.

If there were a benevolent all-powerful being, the amount of injustice and brutality in the world that the truly innocent suffer would be spared from it.

If there is an afterlife, suffering continues there. But not all face suffering. And in that same plane, peace continues there, but not all face peace.

So, if heaven and hell exist, they're the same place.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

hell would be to reincarnate back to this world

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

I think that would be purgatory.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Heaven would be somewhere that you can just do all the things you ever wanted to, with no restrictions on time or capability.

Want to know the answer to every mystery or conspiracy theory? Done.

Want to watch and savour every and any great old movie, with the full cinema experience? Not a problem.

Want to be a rock star, or a DJ, or a classical pianist? You are.

Want to be able to relive great moments from your life, happy times with your kids or your friends or your parents? It's all just there for you whenever.

And there's no boredom, and there's no sadness, and there's no rivalry. Just endless happy times.

[-] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago

You might enjoy reading The Egg by Andy Weir, if you haven't already

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Good Place after the adjustments have been made.

And maybe an option for reincarnation (with custom spawn options), in case you don't want to completely cease to exist yet.

Edit: The hell part is obvious, just flatten their [genital]s

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Hell: An eternity of the skin-peelingist, ball crushingst torture you can imagine. Eyeball needles. The works. Because everyone has a creative psychological hell that's worse than actual torture-hell, but to those people I say- have you tried torture-hell? Humans can rationalize anything, but it's hard to rationalize a good ball crushing.

Heaven: The abandoned residential belt around Birmingham, Alabama on a hot Saturday afternoon. Immediately following two months of torture-hell.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

In hell, they strap you to a chair and make you listen to Taylor Swift for eternity.

[-] occultist8128@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

be careful of swifties

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago
[-] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I think your first hell doesn't sound too bad. unless you're adding that something outside the spirit is keeping it locked in stasis artificially, incapable of making any progress, that just sounds like the core aspect of meditation.

I quite like meditation

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