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Where do bad folks go when they die?

Asked by Blondesjon (34000points) August 20th, 2013

They don’t go to Heaven where the angels fly. Do they go to the lake of fire and fry? Is it possible that we won’t even see them again until the 4th of July?

Point in fact:

I was acquainted with a lady who came from Duluth. She went to her grave a little too soon after a bite from a rabid dog. Did she fly away howling on the yellow moon?

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elbanditoroso's avatar

Was that Duluth, Minnesota or Duluth, Georgia? It might make a difference.

tinyfaery's avatar

The ground.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

A local Planet Fitness filled with smith machines and no free weights

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

They go off and they get reincarnated as rapid Buffalo Sabre fans.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Christians are taught that unless you’ve accepted Jesus as your Savior, you will go to Hell. So I guess lake of fire and fry.

Mariah's avatar

Same place as the good folks, unfortunately, in my opinion. That is, the same “place” you were before you were born…oblivion, basically.

tups's avatar

Ask the bad folks who came back from the real death…

Pachy's avatar

Worm cuisine.

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

Well they sure don’t go to Heaven where the angels fly…

And now that song is stuck in my head!

chyna's avatar

That same sewer that the clown from IT climbs out of.

Neodarwinian's avatar

Same place all folks go. At least from what we know and have evidence for.

You are star stuff and onto star stuff you shalt return.

All is recycled.

WestRiverrat's avatar

They haunt either Glenn Beck or Chris Matthews, depending on their political leanings.

SavoirFaire's avatar

People howl and people moan, and look for a dry place to call their home. And try to find somewhere to rest their bones before the angels and the devils fight to make them their own.

SadieMartinPaul's avatar

Bad people go to the same place as good people – a cemetery or a crematorium.

ucme's avatar

I don’t know, they rot away & go bad?

josie's avatar

If your eye gets poked out in this life, will it be waiting there in heaven with your wife?

syz's avatar

Chucky Cheese. That’s my idea of hell.

Buttonstc's avatar

They go to the grave just like everybody else, whether bad or good.

@KNOWITALL

You said that “Christians are taught that…. unless…you will go to hell. So I guess that its lake of fire and fry.”

From the casual way you describe the possible eternal destiny of unbelievers, I’m having difficulty figuring out whether or not you really believe this. Do you?

If you do, don’t you owe yourself, your friends and loved ones something better than just “a guess” ?

I know that if I were going to make pronouncements upon the eternal destiny of ANYONE, I’d want to do a while lot better than just a guess.

While it may be the CURRENT teaching of many Christian groups, are you aware that for at least the first four and a half centuries (that’s a real long time) the Christian church believed and taught the ultimate reconciliation of ALL? Yes, that’s correct; ALL.

“If Hell was real and found in the original Greek manuscripts of the Bible, why is it that it was primarily those church leaders who either couldn’t read Greek (For example, Minucius Felix), or hated Greek as in the case of Augustine, that the doctrine of Hell was advocated? Those early church leaders familiar with the Greek and Hebrew (the original languages of the Bible) saw universal salvation in those texts. Those who advocated Hell got it from the Latin, not from the original Greek and Hebrew. Who would more likely be correct—those who could read the original languages of the Bible or those who read a Latin translation made by one man (Jerome)?

If Hell was real then why did four out of six theological schools from 170 AD to 430 AD teach universal salvation while the only one that taught Hell was in Carthage, Africa, again were Latin was the teaching language, not Greek?”

Those Qs I just posted are a quote found here:

http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/ifhellisreal.htm
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This info is not based upon GUESSwork but solid historical scholarship and careful consideration of the full ramifications of the doctrine of hell upon mankind and how it seriously obscures the nature of a compassionate God.

If you read that article and can still make a compelling case for why I or anyone else should believe in an eternal hell, I would be most interested to hear it. Feel free to PM me.

KaY_Jelly's avatar

Imagine if all this suffering you endure right now is hell and the grave that you will be put into being composed of complete darkness and “peace” and lack of suffering for yourself, is actually heaven.

OneBadApple's avatar

The bad people will all be sent to an eternal pottery class, taught by Richard Nixon. There will be a kiln on site….but it will never work….

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

The body of a bad person goes to the same place that the body of a good person goes. Our bodies all return to dust. Stardust, if it makes you feel better.

Some would suggest that a spirit of a bad person may live on for as long as “the living” keep their memory alive. Just like a “good person”. Not the soul living on. Just a bit of a particular spirit of that person. It takes many spirits to make a soul. We all have many spirits. We all develop a spirit of greed, spirit of anger, spirit of love, of charity, selfishness. They combine to create our one soul.

But really, the difference between a good person and a bad person depends upon which side of the fence one is casting the judgement across.

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

BTW… As for Christians… Their bible teaches that “Hell” is a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. It should not go unnoticed that does strike similarities with where we are currently.

OneBadApple's avatar

My soul left long ago, when we lost James Brown and Marvin Gaye…

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

People, come on! This q was supposed to be fun (at least I’m assuming that was the intent) and referenced a Nirvana song! Lighten up a little!

woodcutter's avatar

Same place the less bad people go…in the dirt. Or incinerated, then in the dirt. It is the natural cycle of all things here. Sooner or later everything becomes dirt.

fundevogel's avatar

Some said it was Greenland and some said Mexico
Some decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn’t help you if they could

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

@woodcutter “everything becomes dirt”

Since the information represented by your genome was never dirt… how could it become dirt? Our comments in this discussion represent meaning. How does meaning become dirt?

“Information is information. Not energy or matter. Any materialism that does not allow for this cannot survive in the present”.
Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics p147

Blondesjon's avatar

@fundevogel . . . Nicely done. You win an illustrated book about birds.

fundevogel's avatar

@Blondesjon I formulate infinity and store it deep inside of me :)

SavoirFaire's avatar

@fundevogel The results are always perfect, but that’s old news.

Blondesjon's avatar

Screw all that. Who’s up for some Pennyroyal Tea?

fundevogel's avatar

Wait…I thought we were doing Meat Puppets…

SavoirFaire's avatar

@fundevogel Nope. We’re doing this.

See the tags.

woodcutter's avatar

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Everything becomes dirt. Think about it. What exactly is information? Someday we are all going to be dirt. Without someone around to view or take in information or read it, what does it become? It becomes an artifact. An artifact that in time, without the human intervention to preserve it, eventually becomes dirt. When the earth was formed there was no dirt. There was rock, then water and rock the parents of dirt. So…it’s comin bro.

Everything is destined to be dirt.

fundevogel's avatar

@SavoirFaire Don’t you mean this and this?

SavoirFaire's avatar

@fundevogel Listen to the whole show, or just go here and here. You’ll see.

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syed_shaji's avatar

Assalamualaikum(peace be on you)....

Entire Humanity will be gathered in front of God Almighty on the day of Judgement and those who followed and acted according to the guidance that was sent by God and do not associate anything as partners in worship with Him then these will go to Heaven….

And whosoever did not follow and didnt act according to the guidance and joined in worship anything as partners with Almighty God or those who deny God Almighty
these will go to Hell..

Salaam.

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