Sunday, September 23, 2007

Round and Round and Round Again

One of the symptoms or traits of depression is an overly rumniative mind. Basically a brain that turns thoughts, ideas, various bits and pieces over and over and over. I definitely posess this trait in spades and it wasn't helped much by my stint in a Christian type cult. I belonged for about 14 years and even though it's been about three years (overgeneral autobiographical memory another marker of depression) since I've attended I still find traces of that thinking throughout my mind.

That particular trip has also left me with an abundance of ideas to turn over and over. Hell and all of the associated theories being number one in the pile. Today for the first time in a long time, I googled 'hell', 'annihilationist' and 'theory' and went through the results.

I don't believe I got any further towards any sort of conclusion but I did find this post, Epicjourneys » The Last Word and The Word After That which led me towards this book The Last Word and the Word after That. I'm leaning towards buying it; I have a feeling that it may provide me with helpful information.

Just as an FYI...here's the other links I looked over:

Am I going to hell? a question posted on the TheologyOnline Forums.
Christians, has anybody you've known gone to hell? a question posted on the Why Won't God Heal Amputees? website forum.
Does Hell Exist? a blog (as near as I can tell)

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