Essentially, what happens is our brains release an overdose amount DMT and we hallucinate and that's why some people think they see heaven or hell. Whatever is in their belief system will be what they see. But after that, our brain receptors shut off and we power down...similar to like flipping a light switch and the nothingness.

Pascal Wager overload!

Which god are you referring to?

Every religion and even different christian religions have different ideas about heaven and hell.

So which hell or afterlife do you mean?

If you are talking about christians who can be total shits and accept Jesus as their saviour on their deathbed and so go to heaven - no I wouldn't go back to be saved. Why would I want to be a part of such an immoral regime?

There are more choices then god or no god. If you choose god, which god do you choose? Which god do you prefer to make angry? If I died and found out there was some version of hell I would feel cheated because all the evidence points to god. If we don't go on evidence then "god" expects us to get it in random chance?

If there is a hell and I go there, I'd prefer it to the notion of non-existence, it's harder to conceptualize, for me, the absence of thought because I'm trying to think about not thinking which people compare to dreamless sleep, but since I've always woken up I can't quite use it as a foundation because my mind tries to go out to infinity, death is forever and I love life and will take a torturous eternity where I maintain my thoughts over reality; but as an atheist who can't lie to himself I know it's a pipe dream and that when I die I will never wake up, and that's where the terror sets in.

Many of the celebrity atheists, when asked a similar question, quoted S. L. Clemens, and I paraphrase; I don't recall anything unpleasant before I was born, and I have no hesitation in returning there.
Works for me.

When I'm asked, "what if" I have to consider whether it has any evidence and is even a logical possibility. Did you ever think that maybe someone cooked up all this religious mumbo-jumbo just to exploit other people? One thing I believe is that P.T. Barnum was right. Would you buy life insurance that paid if you were trampled by elephants?

Well have all these comments and answers helped? your very young and you live in LAKEVIEW? now that is a quaint little town. I used to fight fire with the forest service........staged in lake view more than a time or two .......I do love the high desert......PEACE

If I died and found out god was real, I’d tell him what a piece of shit he was and if he wanted to be all macho and send me to hell then so be it. I would go to Hell happy, knowing I had more class than he could ever have. When that thought of hell comes to mind, just ask yourself these simple question and it will ease your mind that much more.

1. If hell is actually real then that would mean 80 percent of the world is going there. Does that seem just when there are tons of religions that claim to be true, yet the true god refused to prove he’s the one and only god?

2. Why would god allow people to be born, knowing in advance where everyone would be predestined to go, only to send them to the lake of fire, anyway?

3. If god created hell for the devil and his demons, so why create them if he knew they’d turn evil?

4. Free will? What’s the point of giving free will when god would already know that person is capable of making destructive choices?

Just ask yourself things like this when those thoughts come to mind or even if a believer try to threaten you with this ridiculous threat. Challenge them with these types of questions about Hell or free will in general since they love to use that method. I hope I helped.

That is a futile exercise. If there is "a" god, it wouldn't be the one of the bible, since; the time frames of the bible stories are so well documented (and they don't jive), original versions of the stories appear in earlier religions and histories of real people, the god of the bible acknowledges he is not all knowing or all powerful, and most of all, not perfect, most notably because there have been 5 mass extinctions which would mean he made 5 mass creation mistakes.
So, if the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god isn't real, then there is zero reason to consider a childish "hell".
And in all honesty, given the massive amounts of douche-baggery; children dying from starvation, violence, the permissiveness of groups like ISIS being allowed to succeed with a single attack, epidemic disease, increased slavery, etc.., I personally wouldn't want to be any where near a deity like that!

What if you live your whole life in an effort to be compassionate and loving, to help other people, and make life better for those around you, and then come back as a boa constrictor.

What if pigs could fly? Umbrellas would have to be very strong, carried all the time, and bacon would be hard to catch. But there is no evidence of pigs being able to fly, you don't have to worry about it. If it makes you feel any better - the evidence points to the fact there is no such thing as eternity anyway - the universe is expanding at an increasing rate and eventually will die, just like everything else, so enjoy the hell out of yourself right now, within reason of course. Don't worry, be happy!

If there's a God I would LOVE to know why it tortured me with chronic pain so bad and for so long that I stopped believing in it and wanted to die--and then condemned me to eternal torment because of the way I reacted to its unbearable torment of me in life.

But I doubt such a sadistic bastard would deign to answer, so...

Hell doesn't scare me. I lived there for years.

I am going to cross that bridge when I get to it.

Think I might turn to energy rocket off the greedy orb. lol

Ha ha ha ha ha...who the hell even CARES!? There is far too much to worry about w/o all THAT BS. In the end it's just someone's personal BS (belief system).

The Pope said there's room in Heaven for moral atheists. I guess he's supposed to have God at his ear. So, don't sweat it.

I've made it clear, IF "god" is real, I'm gonna spit in It's eye and take a swing at it for being such a passive/aggressive douchebag. I don't want to be 'saved'.

Come on now. Have you seen the state of the world? If there was a God, and that God wasn't a complete socio-path, he or she or it would have blown their head off by now. If that God is a complete socio-path, they would not follow through on that whole, "Adore and worship me and you can go to heaven" deal. "Make the World Great Again", yah come on God I'm not falling for that again you orange douchebag.. wait, I got off subject.

Live your afterlife now. You won't be disappointed.

What if theres a afterlife and when you get there your asked how did you like heaven

What if theres a afterlife and when you get there your asked how did you like heaven

I do not spend much time worrying about what happens after I am dead, as there is really only one way to find out. And, since you will be dead, it will not matter if I was right or wrong if I did think about it. Focus on matters that are actually in your control instead of trying to figure out an impossible fantasy

what if you lived your whole life as a devout believer only to find that after death you get a balloon, a piece of forever bubble gum, and a small brochure about time shares. Do you go back for a redo?

Religion have been used to control people and make them do things for a long time. The idea of a heaven or hell is just one of the tools in that package. By this, I do not mean religion is all bad. In some parts of the world many really need something to believe in. Something that give people with a hard life a hope of something better than what they go through every day. Something that makes them go on. Some times life do change drastically. Hope is a good thing.

For people fortunate enough to be in a position where they get educated, and at the same time have the capacity to reap the rewards of such insight. I would say religion, as most of the world see it, should be a part of the history.

This said. For me, the question is not if there is a God. The question is more, what God is. There must be something out there. If not, we would not be here. I spent time thinking about existential questions when I was younger. Concluding only that the more I learn and understand. The more certain I am that the one thing I truly know, in a big picture, is that I know nothing. Despite making that conclusion, I can not help but spend some time contemplating my own existence, and the point of it all. Long story short. For now I settled with the belief that what I am doing here is actually going to school. Of course, most likely, I am just completely insignificant. Thing is, that is a very boring conclusion. Not something a person as arrogant as me could settle down with at this point in time. So I rather choose to think that there is something we could call a soul at the core of my existence on planet earth. That there is purpose to everything. That we do go on after school on Tellus is finished. However, I do not think that happens in a "heaven or hell". What I would refer to as God could not possibly be that limited.