Religion
In reply to the discussion: If you believe in Heaven do you have to believe in Hell? [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)thoughts on that. In fact, there are volumes and volumes of literature on the subject, yet Pookahs get very little treatment.
We tend, as a species, to reify to an extreme and just look at the results of living in abstractions from academic to religious. When I get my hands on a thought, I'll get back to you on that one.
I find that believing in things is believing in things and you can believe in anything and even question your belief in everything.
The ancient root of the word was lief, which meant to make things up. So believing can be both fun and, if you are good, profitable. It has no bounds!
Believe creatively, at least. There is no end to invisible things and the most convincing argument delivered under the right circumstances in the right times to the right people becomes almost as real as ... reality.
The agony of heaven and the ecstasy of hell may be nothing more than metaphors of extreme thinking and feeling. Experience has a structure to us and we are adept at metaphorical and temporal transpositions. That may be the real problem.