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Originally Posted by catwoman14
If so, please talk to me.
I can't do anything slightly sinful, not even drink alcohol anymore, just in case I go to Hell. This is a living hell in itself, but then my OCD convinces me it's better than burning for eternity... but I just want to live without worrying I've upset a higher power  |
Sounds like a Pascal's wager - where the punishment or reward is so great that one might as well assume that something is true because you have so much to gain or lose if it is. In your case, the possibility that you will go to hell.
Instead I try to stop worrying about the end outcome (hell) and just think about whether I have any real reason to believe that drinking or smoking etc will send me to hell.
We don't know anything with absolute certainty, all we can ask of ourselves is what reasons we have to believe that something will happen, and try to work with that probability.
For example, I severely doubt the world will end on Dec 21. It very well may, but I have no reason to think it will, so even if I'm wrong, I'm right, because I formed my opinion on the available evidence.