A man died and woke up in another world.The world a dark void filled with only doors floating about aimlessly through empty space.
“Where am I” asked the man to himself wondering where he was and how he got there, not realizing that he was dead.Then a strange man dressed in appeared before him out of nowhere.
“You’re in the place of death, where dead souls come to rest after their life comes to an end” said the man in black.
“So I am dead?” asked the man.
“Yes, you are” said the man in black.
“Then where is the place of judgment, where I will meet with the Lord and be judged for all my deeds both good and evil, where the Lord as the judge may make his final verdict upon my tired soul and sentence me to heaven or hell base on my deeds” asked the man.
“Such a place does not exist” said the man in black.
“What?” Says the man shocked and confuse.
“If the place of judgment does not exist then what is this place” asked the man.
“Like I said before, this is the place of the dead” said the man in black.
“Come with me” said the man in black as he reached out his hand to the man, offering to take him somewhere.
The man hesitated to take the man in black’s hand wondering who the strange man was and if he should trust him and follow him to wherever he wants to take him.He then wondered if he had been judged already and was found guilty of sin and immorality by the Lord himself, if so that would mean that he already was in hell and the man in black that stood before him could be a demon or far worse maybe he was the devil himself who was there only to take me to the section of hell he was meant to occupy to suffer for all of eternity.
“Come, I have to take you somewhere” said the man in black.
The man though hesitant accepted the man in black’s offer and took his hand, allowing him to take him wherever he wanted to take him to.
If he truly was in hell the man thought there was no point fighting or rejecting his punishment for his sins and simply accepted his fate to burn in hell for all of eternity.The man in black took him to one of the doors floating in empty space.
“Is this my place in hell?” asked the man to the man in black wanting to confirm his suspicions of the world he found himself in being hell but the man in black gave no reply to his question.
“Open the door and enter” said the man in black after a few moments of silence.
The man then opened the door and took a deep breath, wondering what kind of unimaginable horrors were awaiting him on the other side of the door.
The man then gathered all the courage he could muster and walked in to the door.The door then closed as the man entered.Inside the door the man found himself in an empty void filled with absolute nothingness.
“This must be the punishment for all the sins I committed while I was alive. I must stay here alone, in the empty, lonely, dark void for all of eternity” said the man thinking that spending eternity in the dark void for all of eternity was his punishment for the sinful life he lived when he was still alive.
The man in black then appeared before him once again.
The man thought that the man in black was demon sent to torture him as he stayed in the dark void.
“Hello demon, you must be here to torture me for all of eternity, if so I am ready and willing to receive them all after all I am a sinner and I know it” said the man.
The man in black then looked at the man and then turned to look at the empty dark void before asking, “Why is this place empty, do you wish to spend your life after death in this dark place for all of eternity”.
“What?” said the man shocked and confused by the man question.“Isn’t this hell, where I must suffer for all of eternity for my sins” asked the man.
“Hell? A place where people suffer for all of eternity, such a place does not exist” said the man in black.
“If such a place does not exist then where are we” asked the man.
“The Place of Death” said the man in black.
“What exactly is the Place of Death” asked the man confused by what the man in black said.
“It’s a place where dead souls come to rest” said the man in black.
The man did not know what the man in black meant when said this was a place for souls to come and rest.
“Please explain what you mean by rest” asked the man.The man in black then turned to the man looking at him with his cold emotionless gaze and before he began to explain.
“The Place of Death is a place of rest where the souls of the dead come to rest after spending their entire lives in the world of life their dead tired souls come here to rest. The Place of Death accepts all souls and is not a place of judgment. Yes, it is true that they are some souls who have black cold hearts incapable of love, care and compassion but that does not mean they deserve to suffer. They may be wicked but they have still suffered like every other soul” said the man in black.
The man did not fully understand what the man in black meant when he said wicked souls have suffered like others so he said, “aren’t those wicked souls the source of suffering for many others, some of them are rules who were cruel to their people others were criminals who stole from those and the rest of them were truly heartless people who committed evil and wicked deeds; they inflicted pain to those who had not wronged them in anyway, they killed, raped and committed many more unspeakable horrors, using the life they lived to spread pain and misery across the world. Tell sir, don’t the souls those wicked people deserved to be punished for all of eternity”.
“Why should they be punished when they did nothing wrong” said the man in black.
The man then looked at the man in black, confused once again.
The man then asked, “what do you mean when you say they did nothing wrong?”
The man in black then began to explain.
“Yes it is true that those wicked souls committed truly horrible things and from your perspective it would be right for them to be punished for their deeds but what you fail to see from your perspective is that those wicked souls are a product of a flawed society, a flawed world and a flawed reality. Those wicked souls were influenced to be wicked just like the good ones were influence to be good. A great flaw in reality is the idea of evil because in a perfect form of reality there should not be conflict of any kind, and actions labeled as bad or evil should not exist. But yet such a flaw exists and it has done nothing but create great pain and misery to all who exist”.
The man stood there speechless as he was slowly starting to understand what the man in black was trying to tell him.
“So this place, it’s not a punishment for being sinful or immoral” asked the man.
“No, it’s a gift to all the dead souls who have ever existed, to apologize for them coming to exist in a flawed world” said the man in black.
“But it’s an empty void filled with nothing but darkness” said the man.
“It is empty only because you have failed to fill it” said the man in black.
“Fill it? But there is nothing to fill it with?” said the man.
“Yes there is and that is you” said the man in black.
The man looked at the man in black confused before asking, “How do I fill this empty void and with what do I fill it with”.
“This place is made for you, it will obey all your wishes and commons, and you don’t even have to utter a single word. In here you are a literal god and you control everything that happens. Fill this place with whatever you want; it is designed after all, for you and no one else” said the man in black.
The man after hearing what the man in black said looked at his hand, closed his eyes and then with a little simple thoughts began to create a world from the darkness.
The world he created was perfect for the man, with an elegance and beauty that only he could understand and appreciate.
“Good, you filled this place and create a world for yourself now I must go and welcome the other dead souls to the Place of Death” said the man in black.
“Wait?” said the man stopping the man in black from leaving as he wanted to ask him one final question.
“Before you go, I have to ask is this truly the end and does every man who has ever lived die and come here to the Place of Death to spend eternity in a world of their own creation or is there another end that awaits us after this” asked the man.
“If the tired soul is content and finds no form of pleasure from existing in any form he or she may make the choice of non-existence” said the man in black.
“Non-existence, what does that mean?” asked the man confused.
“It is what it sounds like, to stop existing and to become nothing at all. If a soul makes that choice of none existence him or her, along with the world they created fades away from reality and becomes nothing” said the man in black.
“Is it every soul that makes the choice of none existence” asked the man.
“Yes and eventually even you will after you’ve spend, what to you, would feel like a lifetime in your perfect world, will lose interest in existing like many of the other souls that came before you. You would have done everything you ever wanted to do, felt everything you had ever wanted to feel and be everything you ever wanted to be after that you will lose interest in existing and seek to end your existence yourself” said the man in black.
"Will it hurt; non-existence that is” asked the man.
“Think of it like having a dreamless sleep that one never wakes up from” said the man in black.
And with that the man in black disappeared, having answered all the man’s question.The man then began to leave his life in the world he created, enjoying himself there but as he did a thought lingered in his mind that one day he would no longer find joy in existing and would willing choose to stop existing.
The thought may have stayed in the man’s mind but it did not stop him from enjoying himself in the world he created.
The thought of non-existence may seem like a nightmare but knowing that you will get to live in a world of your own creation and enjoy the pleasure of being god made it seem less of a nightmare and more of an acceptable end.
So the man spent his time in his world, doing whatever he wanted in there, in that world necessities did not exist as he needed nothing.
He spent his life there enjoying himself until he reached a point where he found no joy in do anything as he had already done it all.
He had created nations of people who worshiped him, had many children and lovers, acquiring wealth and wielded godly power, he had experienced love, joy and true happiness in that world and now he felt like there was no reason left for him to continue to exist.It was finally time he made the choice to stop existing and so he did.
He closed his eyes and made his wish, and then the world he created began to disappear along with him.
He smiled and shaded a tear of happiness as he experienced everything he ever wanted to.He lived more in death than he did in life and because of that he was happy and content.Joy and happiness were the last feeling the man experienced before he faded away and ceased to exist.
It was a final death, far less painful and more pleasant than the first.
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