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Re: Rethinking the Afterlife ..
« on: April 10, 2011, 19:09:08 »
Ok Martin, please tell me what you think happens to someone who dies in total enmity with God

Well ISTM that the 'in total enmity with God' bit is superfluous. When you die your brain, that thing which make you what you are, goes out.  I suggest that it will be like it was before you were born. For me, heaven and hell are states, they are metaphors for the way the world could be, for the ideals that we strive for.  Hell, ISTM, is the shallowness of selfishness, greed, thinking that the whole world should revolve around oneself.  That isn't real living, it's hollow, unsatisfying existence.  Heaven is a life lived striving for good and right, a life of finding joy in other's pleasure, of wanting and enabling people to be all they night be, of  knowing the beauty of happiness brought to others, and sharing the joy and the pain with others in community.

So, for me, it isn't about what happevs when you die, but what happens while you are alive.
It's not just what you're given, it's what you do with what you've got.