Well, I haven't had the pleasure to read the story "Would you plan your death to minimize the..."but I will for sure. I will comment anyway until I do.
First over all, humanity is not responsible for the birth of their person, so the question begs why would an individual suffer an eternity of hell after death. I doubt the creator would destroy anyone perhaps improve the bad guy/gal's creation upon the conscience returning to the pure light of love.
Biblical scriptures state, "Let us make man from our own image" well, the way I see it is since the creator created humanity from "our own image" then if I'm a sinner then so is my creator. But, I'm no sinner nor would think to lower myself to wrong myself or anyone. It's no fault of mine my vulgar mouth resembles my arsehole both spew shit, and considering I was experimented on and now suffer with the mouth of Tourettes syndrome. Aimed only at one person who taught me the word hate, to experience hatred of him, to feel hated by him. The worst experience ever among many health detriments suffering a daily death sentence. No one had my consent. The least these conspiring fools could do if thoughtful at all but not even an apology although empty words, the most they should have thought to do was start-up a fund-raising so I could pay for my own funeral. I've been suffering since January 2016 after the initial injection into my right arm. I blame myself for ignoring my intuition to run-like-heck out of that office knowing full well something was up. I am enraged for several years, cry almost daily. This is not living, it is merely surviving an existence I don't want. Who the heck would want to live an eternity this way? One good thing that came out-of-these-many-health-detriments is it brought me closer to my creator as a woman-of-the-cloth. Huh, what a laugh that is a sewer-mouth Christian raised in the church. I won't ever call myself a Christian again--as tears flow down my cheeks in massive depressive state-of-mind. All I want is to be prevented from verbally slaughtering daily, the culprit who threw me to the wolves and likely paid to do so. Oh, and another good thing is I now have a good singing voice not sounding like a "howling cat" as he so mean-spirited said to me. The massive hurt I've experienced for the past 10 years at the hands of a small-minded psychopath suffering developmental arrest--immature stunted brain growth so no fault of his, and suffering a brain issue of Tinnitus too. So try to imagine the serious frustration of him not able to feel responsible for all the wrong he's down to an innocent person.
If you believe in God you're not taking the chance of going to hell. People often talk at the religions they have seen, where people are judgmental and unkind instead of loving.
Deep within everyman is the idea of God and this idea has been intimately tied to the Great beyond or eternity. A person cannot have any idea of the day and time he will die. This was a dilemma pointed to in the story. Anyone trying to plan that lacks common sense.
So, the only assurance of the afterlife seems inextricably linked to God. That is, a close relationship with the force behind all life. I happen to believe that Jesus has assured us a place in the heavenly realms. Maybe if you seek him you will find him.
BTW modern science has many ways of preventing pain including pain leading to death, probably. It's called palliative care
Thanks for the story. I'm part Finnish and it was fun to read.
Well, I haven't had the pleasure to read the story "Would you plan your death to minimize the..."but I will for sure. I will comment anyway until I do.
First over all, humanity is not responsible for the birth of their person, so the question begs why would an individual suffer an eternity of hell after death. I doubt the creator would destroy anyone perhaps improve the bad guy/gal's creation upon the conscience returning to the pure light of love.
Biblical scriptures state, "Let us make man from our own image" well, the way I see it is since the creator created humanity from "our own image" then if I'm a sinner then so is my creator. But, I'm no sinner nor would think to lower myself to wrong myself or anyone. It's no fault of mine my vulgar mouth resembles my arsehole both spew shit, and considering I was experimented on and now suffer with the mouth of Tourettes syndrome. Aimed only at one person who taught me the word hate, to experience hatred of him, to feel hated by him. The worst experience ever among many health detriments suffering a daily death sentence. No one had my consent. The least these conspiring fools could do if thoughtful at all but not even an apology although empty words, the most they should have thought to do was start-up a fund-raising so I could pay for my own funeral. I've been suffering since January 2016 after the initial injection into my right arm. I blame myself for ignoring my intuition to run-like-heck out of that office knowing full well something was up. I am enraged for several years, cry almost daily. This is not living, it is merely surviving an existence I don't want. Who the heck would want to live an eternity this way? One good thing that came out-of-these-many-health-detriments is it brought me closer to my creator as a woman-of-the-cloth. Huh, what a laugh that is a sewer-mouth Christian raised in the church. I won't ever call myself a Christian again--as tears flow down my cheeks in massive depressive state-of-mind. All I want is to be prevented from verbally slaughtering daily, the culprit who threw me to the wolves and likely paid to do so. Oh, and another good thing is I now have a good singing voice not sounding like a "howling cat" as he so mean-spirited said to me. The massive hurt I've experienced for the past 10 years at the hands of a small-minded psychopath suffering developmental arrest--immature stunted brain growth so no fault of his, and suffering a brain issue of Tinnitus too. So try to imagine the serious frustration of him not able to feel responsible for all the wrong he's down to an innocent person.
These are all wonderful points. It will be interesting to see how your opinions stay the same, or change, after reading the story. :)
Pascal's wager has to do with belief
If you believe in God you're not taking the chance of going to hell. People often talk at the religions they have seen, where people are judgmental and unkind instead of loving.
Deep within everyman is the idea of God and this idea has been intimately tied to the Great beyond or eternity. A person cannot have any idea of the day and time he will die. This was a dilemma pointed to in the story. Anyone trying to plan that lacks common sense.
So, the only assurance of the afterlife seems inextricably linked to God. That is, a close relationship with the force behind all life. I happen to believe that Jesus has assured us a place in the heavenly realms. Maybe if you seek him you will find him.
BTW modern science has many ways of preventing pain including pain leading to death, probably. It's called palliative care
Thanks for the story. I'm part Finnish and it was fun to read.
We were wondering if someone would mention "Pascal's wager!" Wonderful comments and so happy to see you sharing your thoughts with others here!