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Originally posted by chadderson
You call it hell, I call it school. Its just a lesson.
The better you are able to focus on the positive aspects (which there are ALWAYS positive aspects in absolutely every situation) of this 'reality' the better it will be.
We are simply in a place, moving to a higher place, and going through the process of moving upwards...edit on 6-5-2013 by chadderson because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by qualm91
Originally posted by chadderson
You call it hell, I call it school. Its just a lesson.
The better you are able to focus on the positive aspects (which there are ALWAYS positive aspects in absolutely every situation) of this 'reality' the better it will be.
We are simply in a place, moving to a higher place, and going through the process of moving upwards...edit on 6-5-2013 by chadderson because: (no reason given)
I agree completely with this post. I, personally, do not believe in a "hell" nor a "heaven". Life here on Earth is a learning experience. If one's soul is not ready to become eternal and take it's place within the cosmos, it will come back until it is ready to ascend. On the other hand, I suppose you could say that we "live hell" here on Earth, in a way that we are tested, brutally. And we fail, or we pass. I have failed a lot but I have come to realize in my life that the more I focus on the positive, and as long as I don't get scared and give up, good things follow me.
Life is energy, that is all it is. Positive energy will bring positive things to you, and vice verse. I truly think that we make our own heaven, and our own hell. It is simply a matter or perspective, attitude, and resilience.
Originally posted by Covertblack
At the end of this journey you will have a "Saved by the Bell" flashback, complete with lessons you should have learned.
Originally posted by qualm91
reply to post by deadeyedick
I don't pretend to know anything on this subject. It is just simple beliefs. But I did read a book once that made a whole lot of sense to me. It was called The Key by Whitley Streiber. Whitley Streiber, I think, is kind of a crack-pot, but this particular book hit home for me. He describes an "angel", or "alien", or "eternal being", whatever you want to call it, coming to him and sharing his secrets of the universe and the human soul, ascension, heaven and hell, ect. This being says to him that we are sent to this Earth for a learning experience, we were made to know true ascension, enlightenment. He said that once a human soul reaches enlightenment, he will be complete. His soul will go into the universe and become one with it once again. Simply energy. However, if a soul, in it's lifetime as a single human being, does not reach enlightenment, it will basically be recycled. It will be sent back until it reaches it's goal.
This book did make me question, though, I wonder if all souls in the entire world were made simply once, and have been being recycled over, and over, and over again. Or if new souls are being made and sent to Earth? It's a question to think about.
Originally posted by deadeyedick
reply to post by Lazarus Short
Did you read the op? Maybe read it again and try to see if any thing in it can be applied to events in your life. I think you can pick up the trail.
If you died and were faced with a choice to receive punishment on earth or in the lake of fire what would you choose and could you understand that some bad things have to happen in your life in order for you to be here.
Originally posted by Evanzsayz
reply to post by deadeyedick
If you died and were faced with a choice to receive punishment on earth or in the lake of fire what would you choose and could you understand that some bad things have to happen in your life in order for you to be here.
Would I want to be a ghost or burn forever...I'll take being a ghost. Thank god that will never happen though because there is no such thing as Hell. When we die we live again in the next parallel universe, you get to start out fresh and it happens over and over forever.
Originally posted by tinhattribunal
Are some punishments of hell on earth?
yah... this thread!!!