IA Here is a Serious Question.

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The Islamic take on heaven plus Hell..

We all wait in turn to be judged in front of God(the unknown almighty being which has no partners). Our left and right angels on our shoulders will talk about the list they have compiled of what good we did(our right angel) and the bad we did(our left angel). Our mouths will deny the bad we did, but thats when our body will talk for us and tell God that this person did this bad/good. We will be weighed out and then we will be given our sentence..even if you go to hell, in Islam you do your time and then you will be allowed into heaven.(there is more detail to this that I am skipping)

Heaven - a beautiful place(the same is written in the Bible/Torah about heaven)

This place will have stream of honey and milk flowing. Fruits that are so sweet that you cant imagine a taste as good on earth. Trees so large that it takes the fastest arabian night days to get around it. There will be no negative anything. Everything will be positive. Feelings that you have on earth are not compared to those you will have in Heaven. If you think you love someone now, wait until you get into heaven. You will be able to do whatever you want. You wont have to pray at all because the reason you are in Heaven is because you did your good deeds time on Earth. You will have as many women as you want, and you can be with your family in peace also.

The Quran also explains what happens in hellfire..its starts as soon as the last person walks 30 steps away from your grave.

You have 2 angels that walk into your grave and ask you 3 simple questions - Again the is from the Islamic faith so dont judge it wrong please.

They will ask you who is your God. Who was your prophet? What is the Kalma(makes you a Muslim). If you answer these 3 question correctly, the doors of Heaven are opened up and you can smell the beautiful fragrances of heaven.

If you answer these questions wrong then the grave will tighten up to where you left ribs are overlapping your right ribs, every possible dangerous insect will bite you. The WORST thing about HELL is that your body feels all the pain, but never dies!! There is much more about hell in Islam, but I'm done here.

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just caught up on reading. the profiteer is correct, the moral concepts of right/wrong are usually driven by society/cultures. it's LEARNED behavior and not innate. animals (including humans) are born with certain instincts that deal with preservation of self - which is why the wolves in the example above innately know what's expected of them in a pack. and i'd bet even some of that behavior is learned/observed...

humans are born with the same self-preservation instincts. if you have kids then you know that newborns are the most selfish creatures on earth because they are ruled entirely by their id - their wants/desires to fulfill their needs. as they develop a sense of ego and understand the importance of relationships, they LEARN how to function in a group. first the family unit (by learning how to communicate), then the kids at day care/school, then society as a whole. there's a whole branch of pyschology dedicated to studying stuff like this...

what differentiates humans is our level of cognition - animals don't ask questions about their existence...they're perfectly happy with their "programming". humans however constantly question the "how" and the "why"...science answers the "how", but God/spirituality/religion attempts to answer the "why".