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I really hope that if there's an afterlife, it isn't anything like in the bible. It sounds like pure torture.
I would prefer the afterlife to be something like a super-advanced future civilization scanning people's minds from the past and putting them in a simulation modeled after how The Good Place was after they fixed it in the show.
It would be nice if you had some time to reflect and maybe explore from your current persona, followed by an eventual memory wipe so you can start over again. Otherwise I'd expect it to get pretty dull eventually.
Or check this out: whatever's in the afterlife is so much better than anything ever was in the life, and you will not have the feeling of nostalgia, because that's a human thing and you don't need that garbage.
Iβm not sure if I hope itβs the same thing as you desire, but being in a God-induced haze of peace (like being benzoβd out or something) with nothing to do or look froward to sounds hellish. If you no longer have need of that, youβre stripped of βyouβ, and that sounds even worse.
I just want more time to finish my Steam backlog.
What could be a better afterlife than an infinitely configurable "video" game?
Bruh if I canβt smoke weed and play video games all day wtf is the point of heaven
You get to heaven then some homicidal maniac comes in and ruins everyone's nice peaceful time with his Head Explodey powers.
Nny mentioned.
I love the Talking Heads song, Heaven, which just describes Heaven as the most boring place anyone could possibly be at cause everything being completely perfect all the time is boring and uninteresting.
It's hard to imagine
That nothing at all
Could be so exciting
Could be so much fun
But he already has a halo!
If there is a frozen yogurt stand, you know this isn't the good place.
βOh sure, but Iβve come to really like frozen yogurt, thereβs something so human about taking something and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.β
Heaven is supposed to be all good if someone isn't enjoying their existence there then it's not heaven
Vore in heaven confirmed?
I've always wondered about the eternal bliss part of heaven. It always seems very vague. So on earth you're not supposed to enjoy life's pleasures or joys "too much" because in heaven you can't enjoy it "too much", like what's the goal. Is it just dangle temptation in front of you as a test, so you don't go to hell. So does that mean you can be a sinner in heaven because you showed restraint on earth? Does that mean you get in because you proved that you are ok with living a pious life but now there is no temptation and no free will? Either way it sounds like physical torture in hell or mental torture in heaven, I'm a bit confused. I'm willing to listen, hell seems pretty specific but heaven is pretty vague.
Really the Bible doesn't say very much about hell.
Sometimes a character will be thrown into a pit of fire or similar but it's never claimed its for everyone.
Really all it says it's you'll be "without God". Generally, it seems like non-Christians just die but Christians get a second afterlife - unless of course they ate shellfish.
Literaly it's all about God. You just spend forever praising him, and apparently don't care about anything else.
This is better than searing hot lava forever I suppose.
No interest in spending eternity praising and worshiping a vengeful, spiteful, narcissistic god. Might be his idea of heaven, but it's not mine. Give me the void.
Also, the only account we have of Hell is the Bible, and I wouldn't call that an unbiased source. Why would the Devil torture his bois? It doesn't make any sense.
Erm, either the devil was some good creature that rebelled and got slandered, or more likely: other narcissist who got cuckolded, and is now playing the victim.
But overall, I pick believing in action, rather than spirits.
I dunno man, the lava seems pretty bad, but then again... being a worship zombie ... sounds like some kinda parasitic horror thing out of Rick and Morty.
There's a reason that critical thinking and structured religion are incompatible.
What if you worship the god of critical thinking and pray by thinking critically?
In Judaism, Satan is basically a lawyer guy that Elohim hires to question him and call him on his bullshit. That may explain why Jewish people place a lot of importance on having a nice argument.
The ancient Greek philosphers were also very fond of critical thinking and they were religious. The Athenians revered Athena especially, the goddess of wisdom. So it was considered virtuous to spend your days in thought and debate.
Like, I get that your experience is with Christianity, which is not a very thought-heavy religion. But I find it difficult to believe that you've studied a representative sample of the world's religions. I think you're just repeating a trope you read online, that religious people are stupid, without thinking critically about it.
I came up with an idea of a deity, The Forbidden God, who hates worship. You worship them and they smite you. It/he/she values critical thinking and logic. You don't have to be right, but blind faith and grovelling, smite. I've yet to incorporate them into some kind of short story. One day.
What if you worship the god of critical thinking
If your definition of "god" is something you revere, then sure, go have some gods. Have a bunch. It's great to value things like knowledge and thought and kindness.
If your definition of god includes some supernatural power, then I'll need some evidence.
Because as soon as you start thinking critically you don't need gods.
"Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were... more trouble than they were worth."
There is a lot in old religions, Christianity included, where the rewards were obviously written for the desires of the people at the time. It would be very different if heavenly rewards were written with today's mindset.
Remember reading the web series βthe salvation warβ, (where god announces armageddon but turns out modern weaponry altered the scales somewhat). Turns out heaven was only heaven for Middle Ages peasants, a lack of hunger or illness, but you still have to farm and go to church etc. the army gets there and just thinks βwow what a shitholeβ.
Why do you have to farm if there is no hunger?
because there is no blight.
iirc there's actually a list somewhere of what the armies of Armageddon are meant to be like and its a few hundred thousand horseman and a few kaiju sized demons more or less. They'd definitely do some damage but modern militaries would shred them in pretty short order.