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I dont think you should fear the hells. I read of a monk who wanted to be reborn into the hell dimensions so that he could take on the suffering of those in it.

Budda once reflecting of his past lives, told how he started his spiritual journey to enlightment in a hell dimension. (I think he was a bull)

If you take it literaly, their just other world or dimensions that are currently not as well of as we are. It be like being reborn in the heart of a poor african nation, only on a larger scale. It seems so bad in comparison to here. Like wise people in hevenly dimensions/worlds must look at this world and think were pretty helish.

Of course this is a pretty literal fram of thought. Not impossible but still pretty out their.

Best just to go with the living hell allready described on this thread. Which are differ from a more christian view in that its not permanet. If you lack attachments hell really isint hell. Its just life. Its the just the way it is. Eventualy you will leave hell. In christianity your stuck their forever, lacking gods love, and will suffer forever without hope of ever ending it.

Amusingly enough, that's generally the line of thought I tend to take on when the more fundamental Christians challenge my rather atheistic tendencies.

If it turns out that they were right, then I suppose we really ought to be going there. Even devils are apart of creation, after all.
And there's just something hypothetically entertaining in the thought of Satan realizing they're God...and have been all along. Perhaps then, we'd see truly enlightened existence. whee