Not once in my life have I believed in any sort of afterlife. For some reason - which might be just simple reasonable thinking - I immediately upon hearing of these wondrous places, as are heaven and hell, discarded them as unimportant fiction.
Somewhat later in my life - somewhat, because I'm still young - I started thinking cynically and ridiculed believers. Amongst the various thoughts I had then was the following:
Heaven - Paradise... How can it be? I started questioning the human mind itself. Can a human ever be eternally happy? If the nonexistent soul is the very core of one's being then being in heaven should be like being on earth with the exception of having no worries or trouble... eternally.
Or at least until the last bells... which seem to be broken.
Forever happy with no worries? As I know the human mind - this must be hell! The thought of it sounds fine enough simply put. But what the creators of paradise didn't think of was that the human mind isn't simple. We require pain and suffering to be happy!
When the sun always shines, then what the hell is a sunny day?
That's what I thought of...
And now I wonder.. why did I never once until now think of the opposite as well? I guess thinking on fairy-tales all the time is useless. But thinking on it now:
Hell?! Eternal pain and suffering and horror and whatever else? Something about being in a boiling pot and being given some molten lava to drink or something? Well.. doesn't it get boring over time rather than increasingly painful? When your head aches you get accustomed to the pain over time. It needn't be cured in order for your mind to just accept it and start ignoring the pain. In pain and suffering one will forget and never remember and just be.
If it rains every day, then what the hell is a rainy day?
Thus I think that the human mind can not ever possibly be subject to something eternal!
And even though I feel tempted - horribly tempted - I wont start ridiculing and patronizing the hilarious inconsistencies withing the world of religion.
May god be with you.
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