Today's disturbing fact

[Chico]

The fact that you refused to answer my question (and not for the first time) for one. As I said, I'm just going to carry on as normal, and if the need arises (by which I mean the second coming of Jesus actually happens, and I'm not holding my breath here) then I'll repent all my sins (well, the ones which I can remember anyway) and hope for the best. Surely a forgiving God won't mind...

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

[Francko]

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Does it mean you will spend the eternity listening to incoherent and meaningless ramblings?

[threaded]

As far as I am aware, there is not one world religion who teach that when you're dead that's it.

Zen - nirvana - nothingness

HTH

[oraclesmith]

Not quite. The term nirvana does not indicate annihilation but rather entry into another mode of existence and experience.

[threaded]

I'm on about the Zen version of Nirvana

[oraclesmith]

In Zen Buddhism, after death you are reborn into one of the Six Realms. Eventually you may reach Nirvana, which is the state of supreme and permanent happiness - but it's not extinction.

See : http://www.zenguide.com/principles/k...ncarnation.cfm

[threaded]

by becoming nothing

HTH

[oraclesmith]

Sort of. The idea of Nirvana being a nothingness is a Western interpretation.

Mind you, most religious belief about the afterlife ends up in a kind of nothingness - a nothingness of happiness or torment.

Although we think of actually going to Hell or Heaven or Nirvana or wherever, it's not your actual body that goes there obviously. It's your soul or conciousness or whatever you want to call it that is being damned, enlightened, saved etc etc.

All those medieval pictures of people writhing in Hell or ascending to Heaven or whatever are intended for an illiterate audience who needs to actually see something.

[Captain Jack]

All those medieval pictures of people writhing in Hell or ascending to Heaven or whatever are intended for an illiterate audience who needs to actually see something.

People like Jabberwocky and AndyW you mean?

[oraclesmith]

Would they be writhing in Hell, ascending to Heaven or just illiterate ?