Where DO we go?

As a pretty open-minded pagan, I've given this some thought. Bear with me as I digress into philosophy a little.

What IS real? I won't dice that up too finely, since far wiser heads than I have been debating that subject for centuries past knowing. Here is my take, which I know is rather simplistic. Everything.

Taken that the universe is infinite (a leap of faith), it is statistically certain that a single instance of something existing is far more likely that an infinite number of non-existances. So, everything exists. And I believe in everything.

Taken a step further, everyone lives in their own pocket reality. Literally, each person's universe, bounded as it is by their own perceptions and faith, is a different place, and only shares "objective" space by coincidence.

So, then, where do folks go when they die? Wherever they believe they will, of course.

So the Wiccans will go to the Summerland, the Muslims to sit with at Allah's right hand, and the Christians to the pearly gates. But here's where I feel sad for some folks.

I'm currently living in the deep south, and down he-yah, they preach about FIRE AND BRIMSTONE! That's all they think about, hell and damnation. So, does that mean that all the southern Christians are going to their hell? They certainly seem to believe in it a LOT more than their heaven.

If I were one of them, I cultivate a little stronget faith in heaven, and take my focus off the other place...besides, we ALREADY live in hell here. That's why it's so hot!

It's like they tell you in soccer training...look where you want the ball to GO, not at the goalie...or you'll kick it straight to him! Perhaps more time spent instilling virtues in one's self would be better than bemoaning the burden of sin in others. But that's just a thought.

Rochndil, who is glad his spiritual system is a little less rigid than some...