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Re: Paradise, Hell, devil etc
Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Monday, November 26 2007, 19:04:34 (CET)
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pancho wrote:
>Personally, the idea of living forever in an afterlife is my idea of hell. In fact, choose anything that you dearly love to do on earth and think of doing it for 100 years....for 2000 years....for one million years. No thank you.
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>The one thing above all else human beans crave is variety...and heaven would become a hellishly boring place...I don't care what your greatest delights are.
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>Perhaps when life was cut short by disease, hunger and war, the idea of having a better chance at uninterrupted pleasure was apealling...the thing now is to live a full, usefull and interesting life, after which you lay yourself down in the arms of your mother earth, and go to sleep. At the end of a hard day nothing satisfies like a good sleep...it isn't a time when people want to party...but rest.
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>This life is indeed a mysetry...where we come from and why is something we can never answer...we, who can't balance a checkbook or understand algebra. And I'm content to leave it a mystery....I don't want the ending spoiled for me.

Although you don't believe in those things, you have still always shown respect, tolernace and have not hurt anyone or attacked them and I don't have a problem with your views even if they differ from theological views. That's what makes us unique we may not always agree on everything as human beings but we can always respect one another and I don't see your views offensive nor do I see you as a person who attacks others. You have right to believe just as any one else has and we all have a right to live, prosper etc without some tyrant dictating who can drive a lexus and who can't. So I don't have a problem with your views and I appreciate the tolerance and freedom you allow on this forum unlike the other forums I have seen.

I know you said you don't believe in the above things, and I admit they do sound unbelievable and are sometimes hard to believe or understand when trying to compare to this world and the whole creation in general. I just like to add something I noticed and almost forgot to say, and that is that we are limited by time, 24 hour day periods, but from the Islamic teaching we learn that God of course is not subject nor limited by time. So even in the hereafter as we believe in we understand that it is not like this life where we are limited by time and struggle other things. Even when the Quran says "Judgement Day" we understand that this is not a 24 hour day but it is just refering to an event that is to take place, and from the Islamic taught we further learn that the hereafter is not the same where people are limited to time, sickness, stress depression or getting bored. However, it is hard to imagine or believe when comparing to this life. I struggled with that for a long time before I took a look at Islam and reflected on all the available info and teachings.

But I respect your beliefs and please do not take my post offensive or anything like that. The real reason I even posted this message was to explain something to this Mancho person who is assuming that I am playing "chase the mouse" with him/her or that some how I am scared to answer his/her questions. Take care and keep up the battle, inshAllah.



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