@Lucem: just want to echo what Lisna says below: excellent post and really well presented.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ That's a well-thought out response! I particularly like the paragraph about DMT, and your reminder that so much is about the chemicals in our heads. We get so caught up in the nuances of our thoughts and feelings that it's salutory to be reminded that they're generated by chemicals and sparks or whatever.
Also you neatly answer my point about everyone having a heaven; it's only in your head anyway, so of course everyone has one each. Nice.
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^ This is an interestingly detailed scenario, TH, but if I end up in a place where I have to make complex choices that carry irrevocable long-term consequences, then I know I will have arrived at my own private Hell!
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Decisions, decisions, huh? It could even be a test. Make the wrong choice and you could end up on a one-way trip down.
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^ That's good! In a couple of seconds they've covered the main plot of that entire Bedazzled movie in which Dudley Moore doesn't quite specify the details of his Paradise - although now I think of it, Dudley Moore was selling his soul to Satan for an earthly Paradise, while suicide bombers are laying down their lives for an eternal reward from God. Supposedly complete opposites morally, but also superficially the same kind of deal. 
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Well, he didn't really lie: they
are virgins!
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Originally Posted by grindy
Logically dissecting afterlife scenarios isn't necessarily the right approach since this stuff doesn't have to be logical.
It's like asking whether god could microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it.
An all-powerful god could do both.
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An all-powerful god would know not to eat a burrito, unless he also had an all-powerful toilet. Which raises another interesting question: if God gets sick, to whom does he talk on the Great White Telephone? Discuss.
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