Heaven/Hell
Heaven and Hell are personally dictated.
Heaven and Hell are likely the same thing.
Heaven and Hell may be nothing other than a choice and be here with us in life itself, co-existing as different choices and tools to help us.
Heaven and Hell are likely the same thing.
Heaven and Hell may be nothing other than a choice and be here with us in life itself, co-existing as different choices and tools to help us.
Heaven and Hell are personally dictated:
It is understood by the church that what is one person's heaven is another's hell.
For instance, to a woman who does not enjoy Patriarchy, "entering the Kingdom of God" to be ruled by a male (God) would be Hell for Her.
For a man who enjoys being spanked on the bottom and ordered around by a strong woman, a sea of white cushions and subservient women in heaven would be extreme hell. Not only that, but not everyone likes harps, the sun, rainbows, and other things typified in the stereotypical vision of "heaven." Some people like would pull their eyeballs out at about 2 hours worth of harp music. Maybe less.
For instance, to a woman who does not enjoy Patriarchy, "entering the Kingdom of God" to be ruled by a male (God) would be Hell for Her.
For a man who enjoys being spanked on the bottom and ordered around by a strong woman, a sea of white cushions and subservient women in heaven would be extreme hell. Not only that, but not everyone likes harps, the sun, rainbows, and other things typified in the stereotypical vision of "heaven." Some people like would pull their eyeballs out at about 2 hours worth of harp music. Maybe less.
Heaven and Hell are likely the same thing:
The church sees that heaven and hell may be the same thing for many reasons.
For instance:
Imagine a flat line. There are no ups nor downs. How can you experience an up if you don't know what a down is? We would need the down, the suffering, the hell, to experience the bliss, the heaven. Our world here is both the heaven (up) and hell (down) and so we can have experiences here.
If heaven is always bliss, (a flat line) eventually that will get very boring and become hell; and we would have a LACK of experiences. LACK? THAT doesn't sound like HEAVEN! Can't you have anything you want in heaven? *ponders*
As we flatline into only bliss and even forget that it's bliss, (because we can't feel BLISS since there is no down to compare it to) it would turn into a BORING LIMBO (a type of suffering in itself!)
We would probably also become bored of being all powerful and getting everything we want. People who live in suffering and lack might not understand this, but a rich person might. Once you have nothing else to get and nothing is exciting because you have had it all, there is no thrill or enjoyment left. This is why many powerful men turn to the thrill of being DEPRIVED and HURT - and hire Dominatrixes to make life spicy and interesting again.
For instance:
Imagine a flat line. There are no ups nor downs. How can you experience an up if you don't know what a down is? We would need the down, the suffering, the hell, to experience the bliss, the heaven. Our world here is both the heaven (up) and hell (down) and so we can have experiences here.
If heaven is always bliss, (a flat line) eventually that will get very boring and become hell; and we would have a LACK of experiences. LACK? THAT doesn't sound like HEAVEN! Can't you have anything you want in heaven? *ponders*
As we flatline into only bliss and even forget that it's bliss, (because we can't feel BLISS since there is no down to compare it to) it would turn into a BORING LIMBO (a type of suffering in itself!)
We would probably also become bored of being all powerful and getting everything we want. People who live in suffering and lack might not understand this, but a rich person might. Once you have nothing else to get and nothing is exciting because you have had it all, there is no thrill or enjoyment left. This is why many powerful men turn to the thrill of being DEPRIVED and HURT - and hire Dominatrixes to make life spicy and interesting again.
Powerful rich men, who like powerful women, often hire a Dominatrix to deprive, ignore, and hurt them, because being all powerful has become boring and motivation-less
If we ALSO reach that point of BLISS ONLY (HELL) in a "HEAVEN", we might want to turn to suffering in order to have new experiences, such as suffering itself, or achievement, escape, working for something, pride, drama, stories, and many other things we couldn't have in a flatline BLISS ONLY heaven. We might start to find heaven to be such a hell that we choose to live some time period in ignorance of it (choosing to forget BLISS ONLY heaven exists) and coming here to play; to live life in a series of lives which seem to have an ending, just so that we can avoid the terror and fear of an eternity of BLISS heaven.
Such eternal Bliss or Heaven, would become HELL. You might not think so now; but try living it for, say, one billion years. Then, face about a billion billion years and then know that it is ETERNAL AND WILL NEVER END. You might very quickly find it to be a form of suffering in itself and wish to start playing a game in eternity, a game called LIFE. This game could be like living a bazillion awesome movies one never becomes tired of because it's always fresh and new if you PURPOSELY FORGET and NOT KNOW (be agnostic) each time you start the game fresh, only remembering the other movies (lives) when one ends.
(Please see the SERMONS page for the sermon on being agnostic (to not know) and how the cat likes the new UNKNOWN game but once it IS KNOWN, it becomes tired of its game quickly (boredom hell sets in fast EVEN THOUGH ITS A FUN BLISS GAME!)
If we come here to experience more hell, from heaven bliss hell, then here is also a part of heaven, for it is the area where we would get more, or anything we want that can't be gotten in BLISS HEAVEN. That would make here, life, which contains suffering, Hell, a part of heaven.
In other words, Hell, or LIFE, is an area of heaven. So heaven could be Hell, and Hell could be heaven.
EVERYTHING WOULD BE HEAVEN, AND EVERYTHING WOULD BE HELL. <3
Do you understand?
Please visit the YIN YANG SYMBOL page to understand more how opposites can co-exist in the same thing and in the same realm, and be opposite BUT THE SAME.
SO, IF in what we call death, there is a Heaven, and we are eternal spirits who get anything we want, this will seem GREAT AFTER BEING HERE! LIKE HEAVEN! UNTIL..... that nagging little dot in the yin yang symbol appears; we become bored, we have less experiences such as the pride of accomplishment after struggling to do something...for anything we wanted would be instantly ready made, there would be nothing new for we would already know it, so there would be no mystery or discovery, and excitement would wane. FLATLINE! Heaven would then become Hell and would LACK many experiences.
But Heaven wouldn’t lack anything if you can have anything you want, right??? So then we would come here to life, to the Hell side of Heaven, to have all the experiences that suffering gives us and a never ending game with an ending and a beginning called life (eternal lives, the same one or different ones) which will assuage our eternal hell boredom in heaven. That would make here now, hell; an extension or area of heaven. The yin yang dot in our side of Heaven/Hell, is that we get experiences and loss of boredom that we don’t get in the Heaven side of Hell.
The never ending story? The Bible also speaks often of eternal life as do many religions.
(However, please remember, if there is nothing after this life, we will have no suffering and be in peace. After all, we feel it was ok BEFORE we were born and we aren't afraid of BEFORE we were born, right? So why are we afraid of that same thing AFTER we were born? We need to breathe deep and know if it was ok before we were born, it will also be ok after we were born (after death, same thing).
The World Church believes that if we are eternal spirits, which seems just as likely as the idea that we spring out of nothing mysteriously then disappear; then we MAY already BE in heaven and always will be! Heaven can be on earth - right now! AS IT IS!
Much like the movie "Lucy" portrayed, wherein the more all powerful she becomes, the less she exists here, we may have purposely restricted ourselves in order to BE HERE and have Life, Time, and other experiences - so as to thwart the boredom of eternal power, eternal knowing, eternal having anything we want.
If, in eternity, we created a game of endings, of "not knowing" replete with suffering, in order to have experiences, to have thrills, ups and downs, and more than just the boredom of having everything and knowing everything, we could again have curiosity, thrills, strangeness, new things, stories, and more.
Remember that book "THE SECRET GARDEN?" It is an awesome book about a secret Garden of Eve, and what would that book be WITHOUT the horrific hell and suffering of the little boy she HEALS? <3 <3 <3 Hell is NEEDED for that cathartic BLISS and happiness once they get into the Garden.
When this Pastoress was young she BEGGED her father to spank her. She had never been spanked before. She begged for three weeks before her reluctant father spanked her. He warned her not to get mad at him. Then he gave in and whipped her with a belt. OH! She didn't like it! She screamed "F*CK YOU DADDY!" as soon as the pain hit! But this Pastoress would have NEVER been content to never feel a spanking, because the curiosity of something NEW over-rode any worry about the pain. This is how it could be in heaven for curious souls looking to live LIFE - wanting to EXPERIENCE HELL. SO HELL WOULD BE HEAVEN FOR THEM, OR, MORE EXPERIENCES.
THE CHURCH FINDS IT HYSTERICAL THAT WE MAY BE HERE SPECIFICALLY TO NOT KNOW, AND THE WORLD IS FIGHTING TO KNOW, OR ACTING LIKE THEY KNOW, IN RELIGIONS, WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THIS PLACE IS. IF THEY FIND OUT, THEY MIGHT DESTROY OUR REALM HERE AND ITS PURPOSE TO EXIST!
HELL BEING HEAVEN:
Alternately, the church also theorizes that HELL may be heaven.
In this scenario, a soul may be here, going through successively harsher and more painful experiences, or being reincarnated into more hellish lives, in order to learn how to cope with and deal with pure Hell.
What if to get to heaven we must first go through hell? If one can withstand the worst torture and suffering the universe has to offer (the lowest levels of hell) and can learn to endure it and deal with it, It would be at this point that you can then learn to deal with any and all suffering the universe (or you) has to hit you with and you would be in such a powerful frame of mind you wouldn't suffer no matter what happens, or where you are. But if you aren't suffering, that's heaven.
Once a soul has reached the lowest depths of "hell" or "suffering" and can learn to still be happy, then this soul would have reached "HEAVEN" (NIRVANA) because now nothing in the universe can stop its heaven and happiness unless it CHOSE to restrict itself, or again finds such eternal Bliss Heaven to be boring (AKA HELL) and then choosing suffering again.
This would mean that Hell would also be an extension of heaven, or, the same thing.
Therefore, being sent to HELL would mean you are being sent to HEAVEN, for when you can deal finally with the worst hell in existence, you will enter heaven; nothing will hurt you anymore. And, if you are in heaven too long, this may become hell, and you may wish for something new, you may wish for an experience that is not just happiness.
We also have the issue that sometimes, only hardships bring us strength and power and knowledge, and only suffering brings us compassion and kindness, so Hell can be very helpful and be part of Heaven. This means that it's the Hell that brings us compassion, wisdom, and kindness.
EVEN IF YOU VIEW HELL as a PUNISHMENT SYSTEM, that statement would hold true, for it is the threat of punishment which forces people, whom are sadistic, to be kind.
But now, it goes even farther.
Heaven and Hell may be nothing other than a choice and be here with us in life itself, co-existing as different choices and tools to help us
In Life on this plane the two, Heaven and Hell, meet, and and both are present in EVERYTHING. The good and the bad are in all.
Are we are learning to CHOOSE which one we want to experience - heaven, or hell?
(This is much related to the CUP HALF FULL and CUP HALF EMPTY exercise on the UPLIFTEDMENT PAGE)
Which one are we choosing to see and experience? Are we choosing Cup Half Full (Heaven) or Cup Half Empty (Hell?)
It is not WRONG or bad to experience HELL. Experiencing hell may be a learning experience, a motivation, a curiosity, a way to toughen up and become stronger, a way to learn compassion and kindness, a tool to protect ourselves, and may be heading us more toward heaven after all if we have to go through Hell to reach Heaven. Or, it may even just be a desire or curiosity to experience pain hell and suffering.
PAIN (HELL) IS NOT ALWAYS UNDESIRED AND NOT JUST BY BDSM PEOPLE WHO LIKE PAIN!
Remember the story above, when Pastoress Sydney of this church begged for a spanking when she was little from her dad, out of sheer curiosity as to what it felt like (and then quickly hated the experience :) This goes to show that we may be curious about even pain because it is a new experience and is not in our flatline BLISS side of heaven.
Read THIS ARTICLE about a woman who wished to feel pain out of sheer curiosity because she had never felt it before, and not feeling pain (HELL) was INJURING HER!
So let's not call choosing to "EXPERIENCE HELL OR CUP HALF EMPTY" to be "BAD" or "WRONG." Sometimes it is VERY MUCH NEEDED.
If one is choosing to experience Hell (or what we call suffering) it may be A TOOL for self preservation or other. If you are being sent down a conveyor belt which will chop your head off, you can look at all the "heaven" or what people call "positives" about it - you are about to go back to heaven, your suffering is about to end, or it might just be a nice conveyor belt ride and you have been told to only focus on the "Now" not the future.
Or, you might choose to focus on the HELL of the situation, be extremely fearful and unhappy, and jump off the belt to save your life. You used the Hell, the suffering side, as a tool, motivation, to help you get out of there! Both choices are valid choices and are up to the individual for their life path and with their INHERENT FREEDOM in mind.
OUR INHERENT FREEDOM is that we are not being told what to do, by anything more powerful than us. It is up to us to choose our freedom and path, and clearly freedom is our right, and is what we have here. We are here, allowed to do whatever we want. What we do, will create HEAVEN OR HELL, both for us, and for others. We must choose carefully.
WE CREATE HEAVEN OR HELL FOR OURSELVES HERE AND FOR OTHERS WITH OUR CHOICES.
Now imagine this: Hell is an escalating illusion. For in the KINDEST WORLD, THE SMALLEST OF INFRACTIONS WILL SEEM LIKE SHOCKING HELL.
So it may feel like a lot of "bad" things are happening in the world now, but:
1) That may be because our world is actually getting BETTER, and yet we are choosing to focus still on the hell in it. However small the Hells become, they will seem larger and larger in a better world. The Church feels it is best to never ignore or not focus on the Hell, but to also sometimes give it a break and focus on the Heaven, or the Cup Half Full viewpoint because we also deserve to enjoy our lives even if we are working on fixing some Hell.
2) it's never too late to stop feeling like "everything is only bad" and to get to work on the solutions. Besides, at least we don't use Iron Maidens or burn people on the cross anymore, RIGHT???? :-)
Yes, the world has gotten much, much kinder than it used to be!
Please also see the SUFFERING page for more.
++These are just theories, as are ALL HUMAN theories about life after death. Again, if what the church has to say does not improve your life we ask for you to turn away from the Church, as the goal of the Church is to reduce unnecessary suffering, not cause it. The Church is fully aware that it is AGNOSTIC, in other words, THE CHURCH DOES NOT KNOW.++
Are we are learning to CHOOSE which one we want to experience - heaven, or hell?
(This is much related to the CUP HALF FULL and CUP HALF EMPTY exercise on the UPLIFTEDMENT PAGE)
Which one are we choosing to see and experience? Are we choosing Cup Half Full (Heaven) or Cup Half Empty (Hell?)
It is not WRONG or bad to experience HELL. Experiencing hell may be a learning experience, a motivation, a curiosity, a way to toughen up and become stronger, a way to learn compassion and kindness, a tool to protect ourselves, and may be heading us more toward heaven after all if we have to go through Hell to reach Heaven. Or, it may even just be a desire or curiosity to experience pain hell and suffering.
PAIN (HELL) IS NOT ALWAYS UNDESIRED AND NOT JUST BY BDSM PEOPLE WHO LIKE PAIN!
Remember the story above, when Pastoress Sydney of this church begged for a spanking when she was little from her dad, out of sheer curiosity as to what it felt like (and then quickly hated the experience :) This goes to show that we may be curious about even pain because it is a new experience and is not in our flatline BLISS side of heaven.
Read THIS ARTICLE about a woman who wished to feel pain out of sheer curiosity because she had never felt it before, and not feeling pain (HELL) was INJURING HER!
So let's not call choosing to "EXPERIENCE HELL OR CUP HALF EMPTY" to be "BAD" or "WRONG." Sometimes it is VERY MUCH NEEDED.
If one is choosing to experience Hell (or what we call suffering) it may be A TOOL for self preservation or other. If you are being sent down a conveyor belt which will chop your head off, you can look at all the "heaven" or what people call "positives" about it - you are about to go back to heaven, your suffering is about to end, or it might just be a nice conveyor belt ride and you have been told to only focus on the "Now" not the future.
Or, you might choose to focus on the HELL of the situation, be extremely fearful and unhappy, and jump off the belt to save your life. You used the Hell, the suffering side, as a tool, motivation, to help you get out of there! Both choices are valid choices and are up to the individual for their life path and with their INHERENT FREEDOM in mind.
OUR INHERENT FREEDOM is that we are not being told what to do, by anything more powerful than us. It is up to us to choose our freedom and path, and clearly freedom is our right, and is what we have here. We are here, allowed to do whatever we want. What we do, will create HEAVEN OR HELL, both for us, and for others. We must choose carefully.
WE CREATE HEAVEN OR HELL FOR OURSELVES HERE AND FOR OTHERS WITH OUR CHOICES.
Now imagine this: Hell is an escalating illusion. For in the KINDEST WORLD, THE SMALLEST OF INFRACTIONS WILL SEEM LIKE SHOCKING HELL.
So it may feel like a lot of "bad" things are happening in the world now, but:
1) That may be because our world is actually getting BETTER, and yet we are choosing to focus still on the hell in it. However small the Hells become, they will seem larger and larger in a better world. The Church feels it is best to never ignore or not focus on the Hell, but to also sometimes give it a break and focus on the Heaven, or the Cup Half Full viewpoint because we also deserve to enjoy our lives even if we are working on fixing some Hell.
2) it's never too late to stop feeling like "everything is only bad" and to get to work on the solutions. Besides, at least we don't use Iron Maidens or burn people on the cross anymore, RIGHT???? :-)
Yes, the world has gotten much, much kinder than it used to be!
Please also see the SUFFERING page for more.
++These are just theories, as are ALL HUMAN theories about life after death. Again, if what the church has to say does not improve your life we ask for you to turn away from the Church, as the goal of the Church is to reduce unnecessary suffering, not cause it. The Church is fully aware that it is AGNOSTIC, in other words, THE CHURCH DOES NOT KNOW.++
Heaven and Hell are a Yin Yang Symbol. Demons are Suffering Angels