Items in alt.philosophy.checkmate

Subject:Re: Need Explanation
Date:Thu, 1 Oct 2015 23:47:17 -0400
From:Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:alt.atheism,alt.philosophy.checkmate,alt.usenet.kooks
Le 2015-10-01 22:48, Ms Kitty DoW #6 a écrit :
> "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious... what is your concept of heaven?  What do people do "up
>> there" do to enjoy that life?  How do they occupy their time?  Are there
>> parks and day rooms, and stuff like in an old folk's home?  I don't have
>> any idea what a typical "day" in this mythical place would be like.
>
> All I know is there won't be anymore sorrow or pain, and we will have
> glorified bodies. We know there is no sadness in Heaven: God "will wipe away
> every tear from their eyes" (Rev. 7:17). I think we will not be sad about
> the damned for the same reason God is not. According to the Sermon on the
> Mount, he will say to them, "I never knew you" (Matt. 7:23). God will wipe
> our memories clean. This is not falsehood or ignorance, but truth, for in a
> sense, the damned no longer are-that is, they no longer are in the most real
> place of all, Heaven. They no longer count.

You just described eternal torture.

>> I
>> suspect that no matter how wonderful it was, the eternity part would
>> turn it into a hell sooner or later.  When I die, I'd just as soon stay
>> that way.  I don't recall having any pain or discontent before I
>> existed, and I'd like the afterlife to be every bit as good as that.
>
> What if it is the biggest thing in all of history?


"the biggest thing in all of history" is eternal torture?


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Olrik
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