I feel like the key to being in hell is to break right away. You're in there forever, no matter how much of a tolerance you could build up here you're going to break down eventually. And in the long run it won't matter if you held out for ten minutes or ten years.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Buddhist. You're not in hell realms forever. Some Buddhists also conceive of hell realms as excessively unpleasant mental states, so people are walking around experiencing them right now, maybe even you.

There's a story of a birth previous to Lord Buddha being in hell. That being showed compassion towards another being who stumbled and was whipped. That compassion led to a birth outside of the hell realm.

In short: not every religion has a timeless hell. Buddhism doesn't even have timeless gods. They're living beings too, just very long lived and potentially self-important ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure but in Buddhism it's still like a trillion years in hell which is more than enough to break you

[–] Arbiter 1 points 2 months ago

sounds like a skill issue tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't mind me asking, what do you mean by break? To me, pain is easier if there's nothing I can do to improve or prevent it. Takes a mental load off, at least. I'm thankful I don't believe in afterlives, I'm SO looking forward to nonexistence.

[–] Donkter 3 points 2 months ago

That's kind of what I mean. Usually resisting torment like being in a war zone or some injury is done so because you know that eventually the pain will go away. The war will end one way or the other or your injury will heal. "breaking" is like when soldiers go into shell shock. You've just endured so much physical and mental anguish that your body just shut you down and made you numb to the world. This is bad if you eventually recover from your injuries because PTSD can ruin the rest of your life even after the physical pain has gone away. In this case, though, you're in hell for the rest of eternity as far as you know, better to just let your body go into that shell shock state and numb as much pain as you can.