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[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

"As it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Tell me, those of you that believe in deities and souls and life after death:

If you believe there is a Heaven and a Hell, where do you think you will go when your time on this earth is at its end?

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[bonywings.livejournal.com]

Oh, this one is easy. I'm already dead.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

Oh? And what happened after you died?

[bonywings.livejournal.com]

I was cursed before I died, so while I had dreams of losing the ones close to me, I also reincarnated into girls who would die young and without being able to be loved. ...But that curse was broken recently, and now I'm here.

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[Kanna sits on the sand before an open sea.]

I don't know if it's heaven or hell. It just is.

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[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

[Jezebel tilts his head curiously.]

I see. Why were you cursed?

[notahandbag.livejournal.com]

If hell exists, I don't have a prayer. I'm hoping I'm right and just end up rotting in a pine box for the rest of eternity.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

I imagine it will be much the same for me, though considering how my world functions, I do not think I will be so lucky as to simply rot in a box.

[notahandbag.livejournal.com]

Should I say good luck?

[chaos-godess.livejournal.com]

I can tell you for sure where you all will go.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

Ah, I keep forgetting this community has a resident deity on hand.

[chaos-godess.livejournal.com]

Shame on you, I like to think I'm unforgettable.

[createswithink]

It depends on the circumstances of your death. Ya know, if there's a grudge or strong emotion involved.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

I see. So what happens if you die full of anger, then?

la-de-da Shinto includes some Buddhism

[createswithink]

Well, if your anger is strong enough it attaches you to the world until it's resolved. If it's really strong, it may become a grudge. The grudge can either be purified or satisfied, but my bet's on the former happening first. Once it's purified it returns to the reincarnation cycle.

If it's satisfied, well, both the grudge holder and the victim of the grudge go to Yomi. It's a vicious cycle, ya know? Anyways, the souls usually stay there forever. Even less likely is that by the will of the presiding Kamiyonanayo, they're either let back out or erased from all existence.

...But I see there are so many different answers up there. [Is this how not all worlds are the same?] You asked a good question, Mister!

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

We don't know if there's a heaven or hell, just that there's an afterlife you go to by riding the Phantom Train when you die. And I just know that I'm not going to get to either one.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

Then where will you go?

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

I'll blow up the train!

[breakhisknees.livejournal.com]

Nowhere.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

What makes you think that?

[breakhisknees.livejournal.com]

It's just a fact.

[crusnik02.livejournal.com]

Heaven and Hell are just states of being, not just divine destinations for your soul.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

I have never heard it described in such a way, but I suppose if you're a priest, you'd be more likely to know.

[crusnik02.livejournal.com]

Oh, it means nothing if a priest says it. You should believe what your heart says.

[bittervictor.livejournal.com]

The place in-between. I've done good things, and bad things for good reasons. Probably going to need more time to sort it out.

[delilahs-reaper.livejournal.com]

So a sort of purgatory, then?

[bittervictor.livejournal.com]

Purgatory, yeah. Comes with the whole soldier thing. My guns don't have "cast in the name of God" printed on them.