Hell: Is it fact or fiction?

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 03:59 PM

Fiolar, follow that thought just a ittle further- if some people are condemned to tortured eternity, what about their family and friends who 'made' it to Heaven? If they knew their loved one was being eternally tortured, surely they themselves would not be in the eternal bliss of Heaven? Does that mean that God has to do a massive wipe on the minds and souls of each person in Heaven so that they no longer remember that once they loved someone?

Nah. I've created enough hell in my own life to know what it is. Heaven too, for that matter.

What I suspect is that 'heaven' is a time of stock taking in preparation for another foray into the physical world.

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 04:30 PM

I agree mostly with Ebbie. We are gonna do it until we get it right.

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 05:40 PM

Hell is where those Russian parents are right now - and probably where the survivors will be for a long time after.
Heaven help them!

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 06:44 PM

Fiction.

Otherwise, echoing (sort of) Little Robyn's thoughts, Hell ought to be where the Chechen supposed "Freedom Fighters" are now. No-one ever won their cause by killing children. Not anywhere, not never, not no-how...

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: M.Ted
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 06:54 PM

There is nothing I can imagine that would be worse than to watch helplessly as your children are burned alive--and to relive that torture for the rest of one's existance, which those in Beslan will do--

All the descriptions of Hell that we have are earthly terrors--in fact, the decriptions in religious texts pale to whatwe see every night in the news--The Holocaust, Hiroshima, Cambodia, ethnic cleansing, and much more give us all a broad hint that we live in Hell----

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 04:17 AM

A minor hell is going to be ... getting the kids to go to school again, in Beslan.    Ever.    And worrying if you manage it.

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Cllr
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 09:49 AM

Not only is it fact it has been proven that hell fire exists as well...


Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, "why do airplanes fly?" on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

"First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.

Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:

If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.
If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic."

The student, Tim Graham, got the only A.

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Sep 04 - 12:09 PM

Airplanes fly because people want them to. Otherwise they would just sit around uselessly on the ground at airports.

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 08:07 AM

Hell? O! Hell? O! Hell? O!

Subject: RE: Hell: Is it fact or fiction?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 07 Sep 04 - 09:49 AM

Jell? O! Jell? O! Jell? O!