<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>...hell aint half full, I am not sorry that I wont see you there though<p><hr></blockquote><p>You seem to overlook that non-believers can't go to 'hell', as perhaps you wish.<br>'Hell' is only a figment of the imagination of the 'believers'.<br>'Hell' simply does not exist for the infidels...and neither does 'heaven'.<br>So, IMHO, you and I are going to the same place. <br><br><br><br><br>[color:blue][/b]Been there. Done that.</font color=blue>[/b]

Once upon a time when I was still in college I was smoking a little number under a tree on a nice and warm early spring day, grooving on life as we used to say, when two Jesus Freaks (time to bring that phrase back into daily use) came up to me to convince me that I was doomed. They argued and they threatened till the cows came home to roost, and I didn't budge from my heresy of nonbelief. So they told me without a doubt I was absolutely definitely going to hell. So I said, "Well, for your sake I hope I do." That floored them and they left me alone.<br><br>

I think you'll find the GOP doesn't have a monopoly on this.....<br><br><br>OMG! They don't? <br><br>

One philosopher wrote, and I can't remember which one, cuz it's not really my field wrote that the prospect of the end of his consciousness was an exponentially scarier outcome than an eternity in hell. Don't know if I totally agree, but it was food for thought.<br><br>We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>the prospect of the end of his consciousness was an exponentially scarier outcome than an eternity in hell.<p><hr></blockquote><p> I would find that hanging out for eternity with yoyo's two Jesus Freaks or Pat Robertson would be exponentially scarier than an eternal barbecue or lights go out you're done or worms playing pinochle on my snout forever and a day.<br><br><br>

Got that right. Those bozos almost ruined a perfectly good day.<br><br>By the way lanovami, this isn't quite what your philosopher said, but the quotation goes like this:<br><br>[bllue]Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;<br>To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;<br>This sensible warm motion to become<br>A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit<br>To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside<br>In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;<br>To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,<br>And blown with restless violence round about<br>The pendent world; or to be worse than worst<br>Of those that lawless and incertain thought<br>Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!<br>The weariest and most loathed worldly life<br>That age, ache, penury and imprisonment<br>Can lay on nature is a paradise<br>To what we fear of death.</font color=blue><br><br><br><br>