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Author: toolytooly Date: Sep 3, 2008 10:52
"Kevin B. Murphy" comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On 2-Sep-2008, Pop Fly gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 3) My sworn oath: I willingly would endure the fires of hell to
>>> discover
>>> what the truth is.
>>
>> Bad plan, Mr, Faust. If the fires of hell existed, avoiding them would
>> be the only thing that mattered.
>
> Well, you know, I don't believe that there are any obstacles in the
> afterlife that would impede us from going to the place where we want to
> go.
> Hell is too hot for some but perhaps not for others. Hell is an
> intriquing
> place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
>
I've always envisioned hell not as a place, but as an experience; that
experience not being the horrible pain of fire or other tortures [bad
enough], but of the simplicity of hopelessness. I base this on my
observations of life, where if my spirits remain high, I can weather much
greater hardships and whistle while I work as it were. But then if I have
lost spirit, even the tiniest stub of a toe can bring misery beyond belief.
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