All Dogs Go to Heaven!

Petrie. · **on:** June 20, 2009, 07:14:06 PM

Well don't they? I thought they did!

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2009, 07:18:54 PM

Pretty funny.

Say, have the rules changed or something? Why is this in the party room? Is this a game?

Petrie. · **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2009, 07:20:41 PM

Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Jun 20 2009 on 06:18 PM

Pretty funny.

Say, have the rules changed or something? Why is this in the party room? Is this a game?

Random laugh. I flipped a coin between the fridge and the party room.

Kor · **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2009, 07:26:11 PM

very funny indeed.

Explorer · **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2009, 08:33:29 PM

"Its not open for debate" that its worth the laugh. XD

Amaranthine · **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2009, 08:38:08 PM

Nice!

Kit12 · **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2009, 08:46:22 PM

So wait, two church's carried out this conversation on their posting boards? That's what I'm finding really funny. Might make for an interesting week of commutes if you drive past both though

Petrie. · **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2009, 06:58:41 AM

I think its photoshopped as you can tell the letters don't fit entirely correctly in the spots on those boards. Its still a good laugh even if it didn't really happen.

Malte279 · **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2009, 08:25:09 AM

Apart from the joke, this is also an interesting theological question.
If animals don't go to heaven, where do they go?

Noname · **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2009, 01:23:15 PM

Not sure. I checked the Catholic Catechism, and it didn't say anything about animals going to heaven one way or another.

brekclub85 · **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2009, 01:51:56 PM

Maybe they do, you never know....

Noname · **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2009, 02:01:52 PM

Maybe. They are God's creatures too... but they are less aware of what they are doing...

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2009, 05:30:04 AM

LOL! Great laugh there Petrie! Just another way of expressing religious debates even if it is Photoshop'ed

Nick22 · **Reply #13 on:** June 22, 2009, 09:35:54 AM

I believe that dogs have souls, and have shown again and again that they are capable of amazing feats of courage and sacrifice. the love and affection they show us daily is unconditional, they don't ask about homework or how the job is going.. I believe the pets we have go to heaven, and are waiting for us to join them..

Kit12 · **Reply #14 on:** June 22, 2009, 11:46:51 AM

Yeah, I am a proponent that animals don't have a soul, but dogs and cats have managed to worm in (meant to sound good) a spot in our hearts and show back affections (even cats in an arrogant sort of way at times

) that...well we don't know everything about what heaven will be like anyway, so anything's possible

Kor · **Reply #15 on:** June 22, 2009, 12:27:45 PM

It may sound silly but if you have some form of worship and believe that whatever you worship or honor can communicate with you in some way with you why not use whatever methods are in your belief system to ask that and go with the answer. It may well be right for you, even if others have a different belief.

Malte279 · **Reply #16 on:** June 22, 2009, 12:54:52 PM

What exactly IS the soul in this context anyway? If it means that which makes the nature of a person's individual character, his or her ability to love, and hate, and rejoice, and grieve I think it would be difficult to deny that animals did have a soul too.
If instead it is what makes up the human consciousness which enables us for example to plan ahead and think about the consequences of our actions on a higher level than animals in general (though there ARE cases where animals, primates in particular, have been acting in a way that DOES suggest a certain degree of consciousness) things are getting more tricky.
But is the soul something so purely "intellectual" as consciousness?
What is the soul?

Noname · **Reply #17 on:** June 25, 2009, 05:51:38 PM

The soul? Philosophers from Greece have commonly defined it as the element in a living being which makes it truly alive, and not just a bunch of carbon and other elements arranged in a certain order. They say the soul is immortal, and gives life, but cannot accept death...

Malte279 · **Reply #18 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:09:50 PM

If that is the definition then it would be hard to uphold any claim that animals did not posses a soul. This definition would not base the presence or absence of a soul on the question whether or not a being has a consciousness which (for example) would allow this being to make judgments such as those one what is good and what is evil. Is the awareness of good and evil a precondition to go to heaven? And if it is, then where do the beings go who do not possess this awareness?

Noname · **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:19:57 PM

Purgatory? Not sure. Probably, if you believe in it...