man-man Posted:

Well you could define life=heaven and death=hell, but it’d be sort of a redundant addition to what we already mean by life and death. There doesn’t have to be a heaven/hell that really exists, the words can just refer to the ideas as normally expressed (and it’s probably clearer and easier to stick to those older definitions).

Besides that, non-existence wouldn’t really be hell because it wouldn’t be bad. Or good. Or anything. You’d have no experience of anything – no pain, no suffering, no mental anguish at the existential dilemma of the human condition. Also no pleasure or joy or … anything.

Life, for all it’s wonderful attributes, I wouldn’t precisely call heaven either. After all, it does also include the potential for a lot of unpleasant experiences (ones that I’m thankfully, for the most part, spared from living through)

Yes, life has been contorted,confused and controlled into some artificial state of being,making us all slaves from the moment we’re born. But I’m sure we could work out a better way of running our societies? We must be more evolved by now!

But compared to an absolute “nothingness” you could argue that it is a heaven in a sense. In a sense where we have senses and can experience things. Maybe that is what life is about. Being able to experience everything you can before (inevitably) you die…