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Milt's question was 'what exactly would hell be like?', to paraphrase.
My first conscious memory is probably being about 1 1/2 yrs old, trying to figure out how I got into this crib and how am I going to get out! Apparently I missed the earth's creation, all of the Devonian, PreCambrian, Jurassic and every other period; I missed the Mongol and Roman Empires, I missed pretty well everything up until Woodstock waiting to be born. Where was my soul then? In Heaven? Hopefully not in Hell. But the thing is, despite waiting around for between 6,000 and billions of years (covering all bases here), it didn't seem like much of a wait at all. So the only comfort I can take right now (because I am not convinced of an afterlife) is that my consciousness will go back to that same place where I was while waiting to be born. And it won't seem prolonged nor painful nor boring... it just won't 'seem' like anything.
A followup question I have is regarding heaven: All of our descriptions of Heaven and Hell seem to use concepts we understand as humans: peace, pain, fire, milk and honey, bliss, torture, etc... My concept of Heaven would include sports cars and highways with no traffic enforcement, free beer and no hangovers, loud rock music and naked chicks. Some of the people I know would hope for some peace and quiet, everything the opposite of what would seem Heavenly to me. My heaven would be someone else's Hell. How to reconcile this, if we are to take biblical descriptions of Heaven literally?