If you fail to choose heaven, you are headed for hell

[Solve et Coagula]

"Those who do not put themselves in service of the light necessarily serve the darkness. This is an implacable law. Willingly or not, consciously or not, if you fail to choose heaven, you are headed for hell. If you do not make the decision to climb, you will come tumbling down. You may think: ‘The light? Heaven? What on earth is that? I want to be free!’ Well, you will not be able to prevent the forces of darkness from coming to dwell in you. Those who seek this kind of freedom will discover slavery. They fail to realize that they are placing themselves under the influence of dark entities which are only interested in exploiting them. They get mixed up in things, imagining it is they themselves who desire and decide, when in fact they are carrying out someone else’s business. Most people are like children when it comes to understanding freedom: they believe they are free when they engage in all sorts of unreasonable and dangerous things, which will eventually limit or even destroy them. They open the cages of wild beasts which will tear them apart and devour them. Only the wise know that to be free they must first limit themselves, by placing themselves in service of the divine world."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

 

[moe]

"Those who do not put themselves in service of the light necessarily serve the darkness.
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

To me this is a true statement. The real question is does a person who does not accept a certain type of belief system automatically serve darkness no matter what good that they may do?

Although a Christian myself there is no way I can ignore or deny the history of my own religion. Christians in the past or present who commit atrocities and genocides are serving the light?

I myself do not really believe they did. In fact they destroyed the good that those who truly are trying to serve the light do.

Moe

 

[Thorgasm]

YouTube - AC/DC Highway to hell

 

[Singularity]

Singularity's First Annual 'Throwdown Like A True Sinner' Party in Hell

Greetings athiests, agnostics, alcoholics, fornicators, homosexuals, gluttons, and all you other party people!

We see each other quite often down here, yet none of us have really gotten to know each other very well. I say we remedy that by throwing a good old-fashioned, Earth-like shindig! I mean, we are essentially immortal - gone are the days of worrying about eating too much or drinking holes in our livers. And morality? Hey, we're in HELL! Booze, drugs, gangbangs with hot chicks or dudes, and all completely guilt-free!

So let's do this!

When: This date, 120 years from now (if you are still alive, kill yourself. Trust me, it'll be worth it, and life after 110 has gotta blow).

Where: Hell. Duh! To be more specific, follow the Seventh Circle until you come to the Plane of Discord. Take the escalator down to the Great Hall of Sin, and look for the millions of us that'll be there.

What to Bring: Every guest is required to bring one good Christian bound for Heaven. Haha JUST kidding! Seriously, if I wanted wet blankets, i'd have asked for them specifically.

Who Will Be there: Besides yourselves, every fantastic rock band and musician will be performing except for Stryper, who sucked anyways.

Hopefully i'll see ya there!

 

[Thorgasm]

These internet evangelists are a curious lot.

 

[winston53660]

HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL

A study was conducted to determine the temperature of Hell. The reasoning process used in the study is interesting because itinvolves both the knowledge and the logic with which you should
be equipped. The Bible (Rev. 21:8) tells us that Hell is a lake of fireand brimstone. What is brimstone? Brimstone is sulfur. Sulfurmust be molten (liquid phase) since the Bible says it is a lake.

From this information, we can determine the temperature of Hell. Start by looking up the melting and boiling points ofsulfur. If sulfur is present as a liquid, its temperature mustbe somewhere between sulfur's melting and boiling points. The boiling point of sulfur is 832 degrees Fahrenheit, and themelting point is 246 degrees Fahrenheit. Since Hell is eternal,it could not be at the boiling point for then it would quicklyevaporate. Most likely, Hell is about 246 degrees.

The same study also determined the temperature in Heaven. The Bible (Is. 30:26) tells us that in Heaven the light of the moon is as the light of the sun. Also, the light of the sun isseven times the light of seven days on earth. Heaven receives 50 times more light than the earth. Heavengets 49 times the amount of light from the sun relative to theearth and an additional amount of light from the moon that equalsthe amount of light we on earth receive from the sun. So, all in all, Heaven receives 50 times more light than we do on earth. Assuming that the temperature of Heaven remains constant,Heaven must also lose by radiation 50 times as much heat as doesthe earth. The Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power radiation law predicts that Heaven must be 977 degrees Fahrenheit if it were toradiate this much heat.

Knowing that Hell could be about 750 degrees cooler thanHeaven may be a comforting thought for some of us.

Adopted from an article written by Ronald DeLorenzo appearing in Problem Solving for General Chemistry, 1993, Wm. C.Brown Publishers.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

Yeah, and you're going to Hades, the Underworld, and the bad afterlife of every other religion you don't believe in.

Appeals to fear don't work, the claims can apply to all afterlife reward religions; and there is no reason to believe in yours above theirs.

If anything, fear of hell is a very contemptible reason to be good.

 

[emdash]

If anything, fear of hell is a very contemptible reason to be good.

possibly the worst.

 

[emdash]

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900, Serbtzi, Bulgaria - 1986, Fréjus, France) was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, alchemist, mystic, magus and astrologer. He was a disciple of Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno), the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

for some reason I kept picturing a school of sharks. I guess that'd be "Great White Brotherhood."

 

[emdash]

I'm really sorry guys, no more posting tonight. too much christmas spirits maybe.

 

[Sir Loin]

YouTube - Hell Is For Children

 

[DAR]

We see each other quite often down here, yet none of us have really gotten to know each other very well. I say we remedy that by throwing a good old-fashioned, Earth-like shindig! I mean, we are essentially immortal - gone are the days of worrying about eating too much or drinking holes in our livers. And morality? Hey, we're in HELL! Booze, drugs, gangbangs with hot chicks or dudes, and all completely guilt-free!

That was great! That reminds me of a similar hypothetical situation that I've thrown at my Christian friends a few times over the years...

Suppose you're on your way to Heaven... And there you are waiting outside the pearly gates while St. Peter (or whoever is working the door that day) reviews your Permanent Record. While you wait, you peek over the fence and see (little old atheistic) me in there, and I'm hanging out with John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe, and we're playing badminton with Jesus. And you look some more and see some porn starlets from the 70's, Abbey Hoffman, the Clintons (Bill, Hillary and George), a beer tent and maybe catch a faint whiff of marijuana smoke...

By now you've concluded that Heaven wasn't quite the place you'd figured it would be, but what the hay, you'll adapt, and in a few minutes you'll probably be joining me and JC in the Heavenly Badminton Semi-Finals against Charlie Parker, Marlon Brando and James Dean. You can smell the barbeque brisket and french fried potatoes and you're starting to look forward to Eternity, despite the fact that it wasn't quite what your Sunday school teacher had described.

You've lived a good and righteous life, obeyed all of the commandments, tithed at the prescribed rates, avoided public restrooms and buttoned your shirt right up to the neckline. Getting into Heaven should be a breeze, especially if I (and the Clintons) got in. But after reviewing your Permanent Record, St. Peter asks you to step over there and points to the downward escalator that descends into a fiery pit. "We don't like your kind around here," he says. You start to question the Saint and timidly protest, but he'll have none of that. "Over there! Now!" he commands, "Don't make me call The Manager!"

Any god that's savvy enough to get Creation done on time and within budget is certainly crafty enough to deceive us mere mortals about the notions of Heaven and Hell. As Chris Smither suggested in his lyric, "Heaven's just a sin away." Indeed.

Regards,
DAR

 

[obvious Child]

possibly the worst.

It's actually a good measure of separating the mature Christians from the childish ones. Those who's beliefs have matured into something respectable and those who believe out of fear/greed.