New Age - What Do You Think?

[TamTam]

Originally Posted by bhuvana-mohan dasa

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What a sweet and innocent view you hold on reincarnation, friend Tam! Sound quite "fun", really......leaving "heaven" (any thoughts regarding "places of remedial correction" in your philosophy,or do the Adolf Hitlers, Jeffrey Dahmers, John Wayne Gaceys and Chuck Mansons just get a frown and a wristslap, followed by a "Come right on in!")????.........

Interested in knowing your thoughts here, Tam......and if/when you tire of New Agey "fun" explanations (in favor of pursuing the real and quite "unfun", truthful explanation), i cordially invite you to Hinduism Forum here at WM, where i (allowing for any additional time and continued ability to access a computer that by His Mercy, Krishna, in His perfect arrangement for my life, may grant me) will gladly add to any reincarnation-related material you may find and continue to have questions or speculations regarding.

your friend and servant,
bmd.

I don't think that there is a litteral hell for people like Adolf Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacey, etc. I think it is very possible that they could go to a "mental" hell in an after-life... a hell of their own making, one that is in their mind because of the distortions in their mind while on earth but I do not believe in eternal torture (as the Bible describes) for all eternity. My personal view is that people like those stated are above are severely mentally ill to even do the things they do and therefore, they don't even have the ability to think and reason like "normal" people do. I believe the terrible things they have done are horrid and disgusting and it doesn't make much sense to me but I do not see how anyone could be anything but completely mentally deranged to do such things in the first place. I just can't see a loving god ( or gods) eternally punishing someone who is so extremely mentally sick. Perhaps these type of people are forced to incarnation repeatedly without mental illness to have a chance to "make up for" what they did in previous lives but then again, I don't know.

I don't believe in any belief system that is based on "get even" or "suffering". I suppose this is why my beliefs are eclectic and I refuse to "belong" to any one relgion.