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		<title>Hell? No, and Yes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Hell exist?  I would say both no, and yes. Eternity is much longer than most anyone can imagine &#8211; we give it lip service, but we can&#8217;t fathom how long it really is.  We can look at our lives and say that 20 years was a long time ago, or 40 years [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does Hell exist?  I would say both no, and yes. Eternity is much longer than most anyone can imagine &#8211; we give it lip service, but we can&#8217;t fathom how long it really is.  We can look at our lives and say that 20 years was a long time ago, or 40 years ago, for that matter.  We can look back farther and say that the Romans were 2,000 years ago, and that&#8217;s pretty far back.  Or even farther, and say that dinosaurs, millions of years back, was a long time ago.  In the face of eternity, all this is less than a microsecond, hardly even a blip.  Eternity is FOREVER!</p>
<p>When you look at people who you&#8217;d say will never change, in the face of <em>eternity</em>, it is <em>possible</em>, however unlikely it may be.  Over the course of those endless microseconds, these folks just might make a different choice than they have thus far, and pursue a different path.</p>
<p>The &#8220;eternal&#8221; part of eternal damnation <em>completely</em> eliminates change, forever.  I don&#8217;t buy it. Damnation, maybe, but eternal, hell no (pun intended!).</p>
<p>Intense misery is hell. Intense misery is not necessarily a place, although it might be.  It&#8217;s more of a state of mind. This is more of how I see Hell, and in my mind, these Hells exist, on many-many levels.  It&#8217;s much more than, and at the same time NOT the singular, eternal-damnation, ruled-by-the-Devil Christian variety.  Don&#8217;t let the Christian definition cause you trouble in getting your head around it.</p>
<p>The best description of Hell I&#8217;ve ever heard comes from one of my favorite movies, &#8220;What Dreams May Come&#8221;, where Cuba Gooding Jr. tells Robin Williams that &#8220;The real hell is your life gone wrong.&#8221;  Short, simple, and to the point.  Couldn&#8217;t have been said better.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen &#8220;What Dreams May Come&#8221;, you&#8217;re missing out on a great story about the Spirit World, and in part, Hell. It&#8217;s about a man separated from his wife, first by death, and then by suicide. While it wasn&#8217;t a huge hit at the box office, it certainly is a good story, and gives you some things to think about, on a spiritual level.  Definitely worth checking out.</p>
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