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Meho_Nohome ,
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I know that if you martyr yourself there are 72 virgins waiting for you. That’s pretty much all I know. I’m not even sure what species the virgins will be.

synae ,
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You have to manage a bunch of failing record stores. It’s a very saturated market, good luck.

dope OP ,

Congratulations faithful one. These 72 pure and virginal manta-rays are yours to plow.

Psiczar ,

Reincarnation. Unless we’re all in the matrix that’s the only thing I can imagine being remotely plausible.

Waking up in some paradise with all of our loved ones who died before us there is just absurd and I’m amazed so many people blindly accept it.

Pons_Aelius ,

Reincarnation...the only thing I can imagine being remotely plausible.

Even that has a big issue.

By some estimates there are more humans alive now than have ever died in the past...

Tywele ,

Nobody said anything about being reincarnated as a human 😜

dope OP ,

There might even be multiple worlds.

And maybe a “soul” can be divided.

LostXOR ,

IIRC the amount of humans who have ever lived is estimated at around 100 billion, much more than the current population of 8 billion.

Nibodhika ,
  1. Most religions that believe in reincarnation believe people can be reincarnated as animals, which would also mean animals can be reincarnated into humans. There are a lot more humans now, but also a lot less bisons and dodos.
  2. It’s very small thinking that earth is the only planet with life, what’s to say that souls don’t reincarnate from one planet to another?
  3. Most religions that talk about reincarnation mention a dimension above time when you’re not incarnated, as such it might be possible for a soul to reincarnate at the same time it’s already incarnated. In fact certain religions take this to an extreme of saying we’re all the same.

There are plenty of rational answers to that problem.

neptune ,

Some sort of psycho set us up in a simulation and everyone who likes eating beans on Tuesdays, when they die in the simulation, they get moved to a much nicer simulation, with black jack and hookers. Everyone else gets sent to the Matrix, to power the other simulations.

dope OP , (edited )

I think that psycho might be us.

When you dream at night your dreams tend to take the form of your fears, obsessions, desires, hangups, big emotions etc. But you return. The physical world could be called a moderator. It keeps you from descending too far into your personal dreamworld.

But then you die. Same dreamworld, but no moderation. You troll yourself to exhaustion. Might take a million years. Then the physical world draws your attention again, or something.

In greek mythology there’s a forest in the afterlife. Each tree is a soul locked in a catatonic dream-passion. Each fugued out in his personal hallucination. The forest is vast.

Montagge ,
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Probably just as poorly as life

MNByChoice ,

Oh, the usual way.

Kevnyon ,
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I remember watching this interview about this guy who had to be resuscitated and he said that what he felt was "nothing", as in kind of like when you're sleeping and you know nothing, except turned up to a thousand. He said he had to go through some serious therapy to get over it because when he "came back", he just couldn't believe that he had lost that sense of not having anything to worry about. I would venture its something like that, just like going to sleep but you just don't even know it.

If we assume that all we are is just electrical impulses in our brains and those cease when we die, I don't expect there to be much after that, you're just gone and there's nothing, so there is no suffering either.

WeirdGoesPro ,

I’m a Thelemite, and we’re pretty big on the idea of willpower. The primary public ritual performed by the Ordo Templi Orientis includes the phrase:

“Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any Star, or aught else…”

Though other Thelemites have different opinions, I think we choose to incarnate, and may have some limited control over what happens next through the refinement of our consciousness. It’s similar to the Buddhist perspective, but with additional potential goals beyond escaping incarnation altogether.

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