I include hell cause I wouldn’t mind Shaw’s hell in Man and Superman.
Where do you want to end up? Include details.
Anywhere but one of those very specific hells with the long names. Like the Hell of Watching Bad Sitcoms while being poked with a million needles.
I think I’d also prefer a Heaven/Hell where sex is allowed and the advantages of not being alive anymore are played to (like not having to worry about dying again).
I’m concerned about this moving to IMHO. I think it has elements of both. But I’d prefer the Great Debates elements.
Well it seems I have ended up in Dante’s 7th ring of hell, I am a squanderer- as I have spent time on this thread.
I just don’t want to end up in the Hell of having a GOP president, House, and Senate, all of whom bow down and kiss the ass of the Religious Right.
So, we shall soon see if I’ll be in Hell for at least the next two years…
Hell would be a heaven full of Christians saying ‘I told you so’
Actually, David, since I respect your right to be an atheist, I had not intended to tell you this, but…
Hell is a locked room. You are inside.
You have all the necessities of the afterlife stocked there.
But you have a television set that will only get two channels. One shows Jerry Falwell 24/7. The other is C-SPAN. And it only broadcasts a 1,000-year filibuster by Jesse Helms.
You have a computer and Internet access. But all it will give you is LBMB. And you have no posting privileges.
You are, however, regularly seen by a physician. Unfortunately, his main interest is in helping you find your childhood repressed memories of abuse.
Now, will you listen to a little evangelism? 
I’m pretty sure my hell will be the company of gnostics and protestants convinced they are actually in Heaven despite all the torture. They won’t be able to explain why I’m there or why God has horns in his head, but as long as they have faith that they are in Heaven…
I think I’d go for the Elysian Fields or Valhalla or the Summerlands, assuming I can have visiting rights with my friends/family who may have chosen other heavens. The pagans at least have a vision of heaven that sounds like you might actually want to go there; the Christian version of eternal blissful communion with God just sounds much too dull. I know, I know, I’d be eternally perfectly happy, but that doesn’t seem what existence should be about…it should be about making yourself into the person you want to be, not just sitting on your ass. Just sitting around being blissful doesn’t seem like “living” to me. And no animals, no trees, no sky, no struggle, no fear? Pfaugh. Don’t get me wrong, I think we could use quite a bit less senseless misery in this world, but eternal maximal non-corporeal sinless bliss doesn’t sound like it’s any solution. Not ta mention, there’s the whole no sin/free will problem.
A few “hells” for comparison:
(1) Baptist hell: you are made to dance and drink beer, while listening to lewd rock music!
(2) Catholic hell: eternal torment, hot, devils with pitchforks
(3)Episcopalian Hell: rude waiters, dirty table linens, and they serve red wine with fish
Watched “Bewitched” and was thinking about that idiots last wish. I mean, how was he supposed to know the contract would be invalidated by a selfless wish? My first wish would have been to have the power to grant my own other 6 wishes, and the seventh wish would’ve been to spend hell in the first circle, with the righteous pagans and babies. Chat with the Greats for an eternity, while changing diapers.
Hm. Nevermind. Seventh wish for oblivion please.
Er. Bedazzled, not Bewitched.
I’d choose pie heaven, mmmmmmm boy!
Polycarp –
Have you heard that the ashen remains of SODOM & GOMORRAH have been found? The Bible says that S&G were destroyed with a type of “eternal hellfire” – take a look at my website!
Jim Pinkoski
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Mods, that Jim Pinkoski website looks like a set of spam.
Back to the OP. I don’t believe in Heaven or Hell, just an afterlife which is similar to the dreamworld if not synonomous with the dreamworld. Although if I was forced to choose between the pleasant/unpleasant eternal afterlife inhabitation that Christians always find so pleasing for some odd reason than I would choose a Hell because I think it has more potential for being interesting.
Poly talked about doing customized Hells at the Halloween party and I nominate him to do me. 
Heaven on the otherhand would be filled with Ed Asner and Santa Claus clones happily dancing around and wanting to be my “special” friend. Hmm, that is more a fantasy rather than heaven. I think heavenly thoughts always remain incomplete. Like that fantasy has no climax at the end. That is why Hells seems more interesting.
HUGS!
Sqrl