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What if?

It's hard to think of life after death, I mean sure we could just be simply dead but if it's not that the case then what? It's brain wracking to think about but what if god did exist, and you lived your whole life as an atheist only to die and go to hell, how would you feel? If you could go back would you be "saved"?

Lucindayvonne 3 Jan 25
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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?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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Pascal Wager overload!

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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.

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