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View Poll Results: If you were to spend eternity with millions like yourself, would it be heaven or hell?
Heaven 24 60.00%
Hell 6 15.00%
Not Sure 10 25.00%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-22-2015, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Prepperland
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If one’s condition and companions in the after life are based on similar traits, one should strive to be a person one would like to spend eternity with, rather than avoid for eternity.

In other words, if you were to spend eternity with millions like yourself, would it be heaven or hell?

Would it be a punishment to be excluded from others?
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Old 11-10-2015, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Vagabond
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Ugh. Don't get my death fantasies going!
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:16 AM
 
Location: Purgatory
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Purgatory.

Of course most people are going to think heaven!
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Old 11-13-2015, 06:21 PM
 
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Well some think the world we live on IS HELL so the answer is apparent....
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Old 11-17-2015, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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I'm not sure I've ever met someone like me
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Old 11-19-2015, 12:54 AM
 
Location: Caverns measureless to man...
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How come there's no option for "both?"

At any rate, I'd hate like hell to spend eternity with people just like myself. It truly would be hell, because I can hardly imagine anything more boring.
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Old 11-19-2015, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Federal Way, WA
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I have no interest in being stuck in crowds for eternity. Which is why I'm glad the lights go out when we die.
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Old 11-19-2015, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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I've pondered this exact thought many times because I think there is some validity to the concept. Like attracts like. Since I believe no external entity will be "judging" anyone, you, yourself will be "send" yourself to wherever you fit in. You'll of course fit in with those most like yourself. While I do indeed like myself, and think I'm a good person etc...., I would hate to live in a world with everyone exactly like me. What a boring existence !

I personally think we'll be attracted to those who are at a vibratory level are "like/similar" to us. This doesn't necessarily apply to our human personalities, or tastes etc..., but rather those at our vibratory level with our level of goodness/badness/caring/uncaring/helpful/unhelpful etc.... We may still have vastly different personalities or personal tastes.

I would see heaven/hell as no one place, but rather a continuum from worst to best with millions of segments in between. Segments so small you really can't tell the difference in vibratory level between adjacent segments.....but there are huge differences between the very bottom and the very top vibratory level. Words don't really do justice to what I'm trying to describe.....but hopefully my idea is clear enough for some to understand.
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Old 11-21-2015, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Portlandia "burbs"
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I've not been a saint but I haven't committed any crimes, either. Not a particularly benevolent person, but people still like me and my friends and family love me. I don't think I've earned points for Hell, so I'm not worried.
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Old 11-23-2015, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Prepperland
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I've pondered this exact thought many times because I think there is some validity to the concept. Like attracts like. Since I believe no external entity will be "judging" anyone, you, yourself will be "send" yourself to wherever you fit in. You'll of course fit in with those most like yourself. While I do indeed like myself, and think I'm a good person etc...., I would hate to live in a world with everyone exactly like me. What a boring existence !

I personally think we'll be attracted to those who are at a vibratory level are "like/similar" to us. This doesn't necessarily apply to our human personalities, or tastes etc..., but rather those at our vibratory level with our level of goodness/badness/caring/uncaring/helpful/unhelpful etc.... We may still have vastly different personalities or personal tastes.

I would see heaven/hell as no one place, but rather a continuum from worst to best with millions of segments in between. Segments so small you really can't tell the difference in vibratory level between adjacent segments.....but there are huge differences between the very bottom and the very top vibratory level. Words don't really do justice to what I'm trying to describe.....but hopefully my idea is clear enough for some to understand.
Spot on.
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Which can also explain the concept of being "kept away" from a consciousness whose vibratory level is fundamentally incompatible with yours. Damnation is not a judgment imposed, as much as it is a consequence of one's own incompatibility with the supreme being - who may happen to be Methodist - or Punk Amish.
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