If you were lucky enough to have been married to the love of your life twice but both of them die before you, which one do you spend the afterlife with?
If your infant child dies, do you spend eternity with them changing their diapers?
You’re reunited with your high school sweetheart but they died in a car crash at 15 and you at 90. You spend eternity with a “kid” as an afterlife lover?
You had a dozen pets in your life- you have to have them all in the same house at the same time forever?
If when you're alive, it's said there are many versions of you, because everyone knows you a little differently and perceives things differently.
Imagine when you're dead, that every time you see someone, you each see your favorite/most known version of each other. So the example of HS sweetheart, they'd see you as a 15yo. Dead spouse, same, they'd see you how you last were and vice versa.
You could be so much to so many people... Imagine how nice that'd be!
Confusing as fuck is what it would be. What if my mum and the friend I hung out with for four months on student exchange and my favourite primary school teacher all meet me at the same time? They don't know of each other's existence and they know wildly different me's. Which me would I be? Do I notice myself oscillating between personalities and bodies?
Wouldn't you agree they already know "2 different versions" of you already? Your mum would know you a lot better of course, and probably view you as more highly regarded. Same you, just different perspectives. And hey, in the afterlife, it could be totally different physics and understandings. Who knows.
I would ask my childhood friend how he died. A few years after we lost contact, he was found dead on his bed in the first day of his two-week PTO. I had just signed into a job in that same city and was thinking about reaching out to him.
Make up a bunch of arbitrary mystical rules about who will be lucky enough to enjoy this new paradise and who will be relegated to an eternity of misery.
I demand an explanation of exactly how information theory and quantum field theory were both wrong in their fundamental principles, and it turns out we actually are blobs of spirit energy driving around in meat suits, instead of being just thinking meat that dies.
It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life?
If so, I'll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.
I would believe that I am a brain in a jar hooked to electrodes in some kind of future sci-fi hell before I believe that I am experiencing paranormal magic woo.
28 Comments
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 199d
If you were lucky enough to have been married to the love of your life twice but both of them die before you, which one do you spend the afterlife with?
If your infant child dies, do you spend eternity with them changing their diapers?
You’re reunited with your high school sweetheart but they died in a car crash at 15 and you at 90. You spend eternity with a “kid” as an afterlife lover?
You had a dozen pets in your life- you have to have them all in the same house at the same time forever?
mrnobody@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 199d
Here's one.
If when you're alive, it's said there are many versions of you, because everyone knows you a little differently and perceives things differently.
Imagine when you're dead, that every time you see someone, you each see your favorite/most known version of each other. So the example of HS sweetheart, they'd see you as a 15yo. Dead spouse, same, they'd see you how you last were and vice versa.
You could be so much to so many people... Imagine how nice that'd be!
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 199d
Confusing as fuck is what it would be. What if my mum and the friend I hung out with for four months on student exchange and my favourite primary school teacher all meet me at the same time? They don't know of each other's existence and they know wildly different me's. Which me would I be? Do I notice myself oscillating between personalities and bodies?
mrnobody@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 199d
Wouldn't you agree they already know "2 different versions" of you already? Your mum would know you a lot better of course, and probably view you as more highly regarded. Same you, just different perspectives. And hey, in the afterlife, it could be totally different physics and understandings. Who knows.
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 199d
This world needs more people like you.
mrnobody@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 199d
Hah thanks!
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 199d
Can my Grandma see me when I'm jerkin my gherkin?
Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 199d
Become immortal.
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 199d
Do I have to see my family?
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
I think this is the exact plot of The Discovery on Netflix. In the film, it leads to a lot of suicide.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 199d
Depends – have they seen everything I’ve been doing?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 199d
I would ask my childhood friend how he died. A few years after we lost contact, he was found dead on his bed in the first day of his two-week PTO. I had just signed into a job in that same city and was thinking about reaching out to him.
sparkles@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 199d
random_character_a@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
I can feel my entire ancestry judging me from here. That would be just too cruel.
fizzle@quokk.au · 3 pts · 199d
Make up a bunch of arbitrary mystical rules about who will be lucky enough to enjoy this new paradise and who will be relegated to an eternity of misery.
waterore@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
Continue working at getting off this wheel of samsara
digdilem@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 198d
I'd rather see all my dogs, cats and horses again.
marcie@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 198d
Angry that I have to deal with my stupid family for the rest of eternity. Do my best to undo the afterlife
Ryoae@piefed.social · 3 pts · 199d
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 3 pts · 199d
I demand an explanation of exactly how information theory and quantum field theory were both wrong in their fundamental principles, and it turns out we actually are blobs of spirit energy driving around in meat suits, instead of being just thinking meat that dies.
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 194d
I'd live the rest of my life with just a little more spring in my step knowing death wasn't the end.
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 194d
I'm an atheist so I'll probably be in Hell, but my Grandma was an atheist, so I guess I'll get to see her too!
Sumocat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
To quote 1997 Miss Universe Brook Lee, “I would eat everything twice.”
garth@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 199d
Wonder if I'm going to the good place or the bad place.
Otherwise, probably nothing different than I'm doing already.
Bazell@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 198d
Silly question. Pass away too. 🙃
Wahots@pawb.social · 1 pts · 198d
It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life? If so, I'll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.
reelhoomanbeen@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 199d
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 199d
.. nothing..
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 1 pts · 199d
What does "see" mean? What does that entail? Can I look at them in a zoo?
socsa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 198d
I would believe that I am a brain in a jar hooked to electrodes in some kind of future sci-fi hell before I believe that I am experiencing paranormal magic woo.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 0 pts · 199d
Who are "they?"