The Fear or Rational Negative Anticipation of Suffering
If there is change there is the possibility of betterment and heaven. Hope.
If there is only static there is the possibility of death and rebirth.
To be static is the opposite of change.
So how can you know you are static if you don't know change?
So with pure static there is death. Because change is life, life is change.
But is a rock alive? What about molten lava? I would say that it is changing,
but I wouldn't posit that the rock has an experience of it's molten flowing.
Although all things imagined could be true, in some universe.
So wouldn't you like to imagine the rock enjoying his molten flowing,
in some universe? It's just that you don't want to feel bad about drilling
in rocks when looking for gold, oil, diamonds or removing rocks for the
tilling of earth to plant various greenery.
If there is the negative cycle you can break it. Even in eternal damnation,
a kind of adaptation of consciousness will occur. The pain becomes pleasure,
the black becomes white. It's just mountains. Up and down. Up and down. Walking.
What I want to believe is that ultimate suffering is not possible. Hell is not possible.
And that everything moves in the direction of good.
I want us to be optimistic. To hope.
But I don't want to have the idea of heaven.
Because the opposite of heaven is hell.
And if heaven is possible then so is hell.
At least if heaven is possible and hell is possible,
then I want as much of heaven and as little of hell as I can possibly ask for.
So the only purpose of the concept of hell is to know,
the real experience of heaven for what joyful bliss it really is.
Imagine hell but experience heaven.
That is how I would like to be.
Sitting in heaven and imagining hell at various nows,
to feel sure that I am really and surely in heaven.
Forever.
But I had an afterthought.
Any argument that I bring might be turned upside down.
To bring back suffering.
Just as I want to be a person in heaven imagining a little hell every now and then.
Such could there be a person in hell who imagines a little heaven now and then.
So what is the crucial difference?
You go where you want to go. That's the difference.
The person in heaven imagining hell goes back to heaven after satisfying his curiosity.
The person in hell imagining heaven goes more and more into his imagination,
until imagination is real and reality is imagined.
It's immense. A weight has lifted from my shoulders.
You only go where you want to go.
Thanks to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmscwrJ17Eo and Alan Watts' voice
that kept me company during this writing.
