god made hell... doesn't make sense

[delusionsofNORMALity]

Hell is such an incredibly primitive concept, devised from a primitive society who's idea of justice is simply revenge.

isn't the entire concept of religion primitive? with all of this belief in mythological creatures and fantasy realms, we seem to be no more advanced than our distant ancestors. we seem to be trapped in our imaginings, unable to see past these childish dreams, and we will probably remain so until we are willing to admit that the answers we seek in religion are most likely unattainable.

[hazetwostep]

i wouldn't classify religion as primitive personally. i see it more as a necessary evil of sociological means to carry on information about spirituality that is beneficial when not viewed through fundamental eyes.

for instance... forms of meditation like Vipassana (buddhist awareness meditation) is an amazing tool for both spiritual and completely "natural" reasons. the religion of buddhism has developed this method and carried the tradition on that people today can benefit from. i practice it yet do not follow the religion. if it weren't for the traditions in the religion this information would not have survived and been refined so much over the years for the benefit of people today.

religion = necessary evil

[PureEvil760]

purevil

do you want to elaborate? sounds like an intersting perspective...

Well, I'll try but I dont have experience in hell besides being human. I've read that hell is a collaboration of all negative thoughts given by all humans in the entire history of earth, and heaven is made up of all positive thoughts, then there are many places in between. 3 lower realms "hell" being the lowest, 3 higher realms "heaven" being the highest, and the physical realm is in the middle which counts as 1 realm. All that stuff is'nt real its just a very in-depth illusion.

I read that from some buddhist astral projector which explained every realm he explained what it felt like in each one, like hell felt like being stuck in mud very hard to move and theres body parts floating around everywhere or somthing like that. I remember one of the higher realms he said theres people that just constantly build things..im guessing thats where people like engineers and people that are obsessed with constructing and fixing things go.

I think he is the one that said that the buddhist realm is just nothing all that exists there are your thoughts and feelings and it is so empty that some people that visit there can get freaked out by it.

[hazetwostep]

interesting for sure