I belive once you get to heaven your earthly memories (the bad ones) desapear
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Bad memories are what help to make you who you are. If I had no bad memories whatsoever, I wouldn't be me.
In your case, that might not be a bad idea.
In a way, it does makes sense that eternal bliss does not include remembering Goatse.
In other words: not really fundie but a somewhat valid theological problem.
I remember having a discussion with a minister about something along these lines. His opinion, for what it's worth, was that those in heaven would still be the same people that they had been, with all the same personality and memories (including of family members who for some reason didn't make it), but "perfected" in such a way that there is no regret, no sadness, no unpleasant emotion whatsoever. In other words, heaven is sort of like an eternal trip on Valium and Ecstasy. I don't know whether this guy's view is considered mainstream or not (he was a minister at an independent, nondenominational Protestant Bible church), but the concept sounds awfully creepy to me.
~David D.G.
Your bad memories will do what?
I'm not a native English speaker, so please explain it to me.
Is it like de-sapear, or more like desa-pear?
Your memories, both good and bad, are what make you you . I'd rather die then give up any of them, even my greatest nightmares.
I gotta' say, it sounds like you want to forget something. Did something that you regret, did you?
Also, your spelling is atrocious. Beside the point, I know, but it needed to be said.
This is fundie teaching, in fact they believe they will loose their memories and have no care for their time on Earth or those they've left still on Earth.
It's kinda funny because if our soul contains anything it's usually described as us without the physical body, our memories and personality. Yet fundie teaching suggest even that's gone. So, what are we, automans, mindless slaves, dead as dead can be as we Atheists have always said?
So if, for instance, your mother is mean to you or goes to hell, you'll forget she existed? So you'll not think it's odd that other people had mothers and you don't?
"I belive once you get to heaven your earthly memories (the bad ones) desapear"
No, that's what alcohol does here on earth lol :)
I think once the oxygen level in your dying brain reaches it's critical end point, the tunnel of light, lovely scenery and faces of long dead loved ones fades and shuts off like a lightbulb. Blissful release. Mother Nature also includes a "freeze and go numb" response in the brains of prey animals as they die in a predator's jaws.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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