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Name: Keno
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Subject: I'll hold the gates open for you when I get there
Date: Friday, September 21, 2018
Time: 1:27:26 PM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 317666
Parent ID: 317657
Thread ID: 317556
My mother was a true believer and went to church every Sunday up until she hit 89 or 90, and when she started to get too weak to attend anymore, then she just watch church services on TV instead each Sunday morning. Yet she didn't believe in the Devil or Hell at all, even if her bible said that it was real. Her feelings were that no God, or at least not her God, would ever let such a place exist or at the least send his followers there. Maybe it was because her dad, who truly was a great man and a leader in the earliest of the civil rights movement days of the 1920s and '30s, was an Atheist himself, and I got a feeling that is why she felt that way.
But if my grandpa didn't get into this place called Heaven, then I don't want in either, I'll go to wherever his soul is at today, and I'm sure my mom and dad are at that very same place with him now. Deep down I'm not sure that we even have a soul that lives on after we die, I bet we don't, but if we do have one, we won't remember our past at all anyway once we move on. One thing both my mom and late Buddhist friend Yeshee both said to me at different times when I would note this to them was 'well, when we die we will find out if you are right or not'. My answer to this was/is, if I'm right, then no, we won't ever find out since our brains won't be working any longer at that time. We will be dead, just like how sleeping is, except there will be no dreams, and we won't ever wake up, as we just won't exist any longer to know anything. But heck, there will be no more pain, either. That's better than believing in Hell and spending the rest of time suffering in pain just because some of us didn't believe the magic man that is called "god".
My mom was correct about 2 things as far as the afterlife goes, there is no Hell or a Devil to worry about. But IMO, there's no magic man called "God" up there, either.
PS to gomper: Brother Al was a beautiful man indeed. That's why I say I'll let him hold open those gates for me, even if I know those gates don't exist, wherever our energy that we generate while alive ends up, that's where he is and where we all will end up one day, sooner or later. If that energy of life just evaporates into nothing after death, well, that's where Brother AL and everybody who died before us are at. We will all be nowhere, man (pun to the Beatles song title intended). But why fear it? It's not worth the worry since we can't control it and it happens to everybody in the end, and no preacher or any religion can control it, either. Like that old '60s Buddhist like rock song said in it's lyrics: "live for today, and don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey!". Who sang that song anyway? GranFunk maybe?
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