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A RELIGIOUS VIEW ON WHERE ARE WE GOING?

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On this glorious Sunday, let me start with something sent by my major provider, a bonus question given by a chemistry professor.  It does not matter whether this story actually occurred or not, for this would be consistent with most religious texts. Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law ( gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed ) or some variant.   One student, however, wrote the following: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are...

A RELIGIOUS VIEW OF WHY WE ARE HERE

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On 23 September 2020 I presented the scientific view of why we are here .  Today, from the religious perspective.  One of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings is,  Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going? At the heart of the issue is the age-old question, what is the meaning of life?  Read this  Wikipedia summary, where, after traipsing through all of history with the most eminent philosophers of their day, a passage appears: In  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , there are several allusions to the meaning of life. At the end of the film, a character played by  Michael Palin  is handed an envelope containing "the meaning of life", which she opens and reads out to the audience: "Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations." [213] [214] [215] Good an expla...