ideal version of what happens after death

I want to come back as a bed that eats.

Bed Lunch

Voted 'other', decline to say what.

When someone's entire self can be destroyed by a brain injury from a bump on the head, how can anyone expect the self to persist after a body completely stops working?

magical pseudo-physics

the universe admin understands the structure

the admin will "drag and drop" us to the next vessel

I have my self backed up across 379 DVD-Rs.

Used to read all these John Varley's stories about that.

Ugh at typo. A few more minutes in typo purgatory for me, I guess.

I mean this is basically Altered Carbon

Is that show any good? I just liked one of the actors in something else.

I'm sorry, I meant flash disks.

What happens when your self storage media becomes so hopelessly antiquated that no one has the equipment to access it anymore?

You should see my closet full of 360K floppies.

When someone's entire self can be destroyed by a brain injury from a bump on the head, how can anyone expect the self to persist after a body completely stops working?

they're still someone though. I mean my "entire self" has undergone a half-dozen total transfigurations as I've made it to my mid-30s but theres still some continuity there

This thread just expresses the shocking job Christianity (the worlds first or second largest religion?) is doing to actually communicate it’s historical dogma to the larger world. No Resurrection/new-earth/trans-physical option? And don’t try convince me heaven/hell is synonymous, I won’t have it

Is that show any good? I just liked one of the actors in something else.

The books >>>>> the show.

heaven and hell is not synonymous. hell would be at least 100x better than heaven

I meant heaven/hell option synonymous to a biblical resurrection concept.

No Resurrection/new-earth/trans-physical option?

a few years back i got really into the idea of trans-physical, but in a negative way, like no, don't do that! i still think it's bad and will happen at some point, at least for some people. maybe it will be an option for Bezos-like people, to transcend human limitations. what a hero jeff bezos is! or maybe it will be like the matrix, just transcending into a computer program and effectively removing yourself from the earthly activities other than your body as a resource or an asset to a company. maybe that reality is better for some people, especially if the transcendent virtual world is really cool!

xp oh, that makes sense! i doubt many would vote for that. we ran a generic religious/spiritual/agnostic/atheist poll a few years back, and i came away thinking "wow, this is the most apostate/non-believer crowd i've ever been a part of, fuck yeah"

I dunno, seems like a few people ITT wanted reincarnation with retained consciousness which = two big parts or reincarnation.

I’m convinced resurrection is the unappreciated magnum opus of afterlife discussion. Needs to get into the mainstream besides zombie movies.

*two big parts of resurrection

The quicktalking bit upthread that said endless reincarnation is the same as oblivion, i think we should all maybe just take a turn each out of our busy lives to disagree with that

Anyways the actual is still the ideal, the signal to the tv blinks out

The quicktalking bit upthread that said endless reincarnation is the same as oblivion, i think we should all maybe just take a turn each out of our busy lives to disagree with that

i have to admit, i did read that and put my hand on my chin

"Hmm!" i thought

TY km, on point as usual

Who's next

If you have high cholesterol and go to heaven do u still gotta take statins

Hail statin

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

If you have high blood pressure when you arrive you book an appointment with Jesus-as-divine-healer. You only have to take statins until your appointment time arrives, several millennia hence. Try to arrive about 30 minutes early because there's paperwork to fill out and rescheduling for later is a bear.

So is the big twist here that, whatever you voted for, that's actually what happens to you?

I like to imagine that after I die I will stop getting 15 spam calls a day

You will start making 15 spam calls a day. Heaven is just a marketing scheme.

whatever you voted for, that's actually what happens to you?

and if you voted "other" whatever happens to you is decided by a very verbal four year old on a sugar rush, just for the lols

great, we're all destined for the Great Booger in the Nose Beyond

nuh uh, you're bart sikmpson

if you ask a 4 year old in 1991, i mean

i was 8 then. i knew 4-year-olds. i hadn't seen the simpsons, but i knew that if you were playing rock paper scissors, rock beats paper, paper beats scissors, scissors, beats paper, and bart simpson wins everything. also the bulldozer.

can't tell if this thread is about not reading the instructions or enormous levels of depression

Hail statin

vg

I've come to see reincarnation as a metaphor. As much as I dig the poetic idea of 'coming back as an ant', this is closer to something like the existentialist idea that you are essentially reborn with each second, giving us an astonishing amount of agency and power to put things right, minimise the amount of harm you do and to make (attempt to make) the correct decisions - in actions and morality.

In lieu of reincarnation I dig the notion of whatever life experience and knowledge and abilities I've accrued being divvied up and disseminated among those who can best make use of it. Kind of like willing all my books to a local library except granting my sikk whistling skillz to the whistle-deficient. Just like upload that shit to the cloud or whatever. You know, technology.

i know we should ask about what happens after death. hey squashed fly!

https://i.imgur.com/6T3SiSM.png

what's your ideal version of what happens after death?!

just place your hands to heaven and pray
that we'll be back together some day heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

*raise

Tonight I need your sweet caress
Hold me in the darkness
Tonight you cause my breastlessness
Do you believe my sandwich?

perhaps that fly is in insect heaven, drinking kool-aid all day long

If we dont remember past lives if we do reincarnate, then how is that practically any different to ceasing to exist?

I want to go on as a bodiless ball of energy/thoughts, interacting with all the other minds. Like the internt but without the pesky shit body cage weighing me down. I dont want to stop existing.

https://i.imgflip.com/2z9jkz.jpg