This reminds me of something I've heard one of my brothers say a few times:
"Heaven (God) won't have me and hell's (Devil) afraid I'll take over"
I don't know what a hell would be. My limited mind doesn't allow me to realistically know. Is it fire and brimstone and demons picking at my flesh for eternity, or is it not realizing my life potential? Is it having my head twisted and turned while spikes get continuously stuck through my eyes, or being reborn into an existence of suffering (no matter how minor or major I see it as being)? Is it piranhas eating my pecker off for all eternity, or asking questions that I will never know the answers to? What if it's feeling something good and then feeling something bad? What if it's spending 40 years loving someone and then in an instance losing them? Is it unrequited love?
Most people see hell as something extraordinary or incredibly grand, but what if it's something that just eats away at you slowly or something like that throughout your life?
Doing something you absolutely hate over and over again, so something I hate lol
If there is such a thing, I think we are already here!
I am sorry but that folder with heaven and hell got thrown into the fire.
A place where I'd be stuck in an emotionally abusive place without the opportunity for me to leave it. Where I'd be put down, reminded of my worthlessness, and chastised anytime I tried to be helpful. No aging out, no chance at moving away, only a blade against my wrist and the darkness I hide away in to escape the pain.
Before I became an atheist, I considered hell to be the complete isolation of the consciousness. It would be as if some spiritual tether was cut loose, flinging the soul irreversibly into the void.
Hell is when/where you are constantly punished without any reason. The intensity of the punishment increases continually at an ever increasing rate and if you are not suffering enough,others you love are tortured to increase your suffering. There is no reason or justification for your punishment, there is no way out, there is nothing you can do to appease the punishers, no-one tries to help you in fact all those around enjoy you being punished and encourage it. Punishment is mental, emotional, physical.
Emotional pain is Hell ! ( or being stuck in a job you don't like )
Being stuck in hell forever with all those I thought had gone to heaven.