The Strictest Silence

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by ginalee14, Nov 8, 2014.

  1. ginalee14

    ginalee14 eternity

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    Which realm banishes those to the strictest silence? Purgatory? Hell? Some say "silence is golden" but that's not the sort of silence I'm talking about.

    Seeing "behind the veil", so to speak, those bound in the strictest silence. What is their story? What do they have to say?

    What is it to suffer in silence? Purgatory? Hell? Damnation. Condemnation.

    But doesn't it matter more, who hears and who listens? What if "god" isn't there, has abandoned, or turned a deaf ear and a blind eye ... do all humans naturally conform, via spirit? An automatic conformity of aversion to the silenced one.

    Silence gives rise to hearing, does it not?
     
  2. aesthetic

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    I have this nifty ouija board right next to me but ya know what? I never use it, because silence should stay as it is. And it's scary as fuck
     
  3. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    i don't know what's supposed to be scarry about a ouiji board.
    you get two (or more) people, and if they can keep from moving that thing consciously (kind of a neat trick in and of its self) the statistical mean of their subconscious does.
    now you can say its some kind of mumbo jumbo moves their subconsious minds.
    but even if it does, again this gets back to i don't think whatever mumbo jumbo there is, owes anything to what anyone claims to know about it.
    so again, and even then, i don't see what's supposed to be scarry about it.

    now with that out of the way:

    i loves me a lot of lovely silence. strictness though, is for people who are into all those kinky things.
     
  4. BlackBillBlake

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    Silence in the sense of an absence of auditory sense input is not easy to find these days outside of a float tank.

    Silence - mental silence - the cessation of the inner thinking is a very difficult thing to achieve.It is the holy grail of both hindu and buddhist practice.

    If you just focus your attention on ideas of purgatory, hell, damnation etc it would be an impossible thing. It's better to see that such things are only conceptualizations of the human imagination. No one is in hell or purgatory.People suffer but it's just human suffering. It doesn't last forever and it's ending isn't anything to do with becoming morally pure or righteous.
     
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