This is actually pretty accurate. Heaven isn't supposed to be some New Game+ version of life without the crappy parts, it's being in the presence of God and experiencing the beatific vision (in Christianity, anyway).
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Heaven is real, but it’s for all eternity, how long do you last?
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This is actually pretty accurate. Heaven isn't supposed to be some New Game+ version of life without the crappy parts, it's being in the presence of God and experiencing the beatific vision (in Christianity, anyway).
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In my version god got bored of that and decided to hell with it all, let them have their toys
Not gonna lie. I'm sitting here reading your experience and the word that keeps coming to mind is ketamine.
I was only 14, wasn't on any drugs or anything. Just a random dream/night of sleep.
On one hand... This.
On the other... If I had a quality sound system and every record I ever wanted I could go for a very long time without wanting to tap out of this whole "existing" thing.
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it changes as much as you'd want it to
But you'd still have this stream of conciousness
wanna go to heaven?
congrats, your heaven is actually hell! now, discuss.
But blue skies started posting the same time bangai stopped. I'm not crazy. Ok I might be but I still think I'm right.
If you get whatever you want you could essentially become god and create your own little universe with your own rules. Or multiple.
Then you could amuse yourself by bringing your little creations outside their universe when they died, giving them infinite life and whatever they want.
Then you could amuse yourself by bringing your little creations outside their universe when they died, giving them infinite life and whatever they want.
There's a lot of cool shit I'd love to do plus some people up there probably have come up with crazy shit themselves.
Would love to visit Venus for example or explore the universe.
I'm gonna say at least a couple hundred years
Would love to visit Venus for example or explore the universe.
I'm gonna say at least a couple hundred years
Are you hitting on me.im not saying no. I just want to be clear.
Yeah..... So, essentially you're a reality warper of the Nth degree. The OP states that you can change it whenever you want so that means you can just rewrite reality to your will. God is just giving you his powers and saying, "have at it!"
I would last for quite a while. How long is the question? Maybe thousands upon billions of years of me just trying to carve out my perfect Omniverse.
At least I could catch up on my backlog.
Nah, probably still wouldn't do it.
Lately I've been thinking about the eternal void and its inescapable nature kind of terrifies me, there's no way to avoid the fact that I will die and be a nonperson. My hope is somehow we figure out how to upload our brains into the internet or something by then... assuming civilization is still recognizable in 50 years or so.
I couldn't delude myself into a belief of the afterlife just to ignore the void, so religion isn't an option. I'd probably choose to live forever in heaven. I think the ideal scenario is you get to go to heaven as long as you want, let yourself be reborn, experience a new life, come back to heaven, recuperate, etc. You can have your shared knowledge in heaven, but not in the mortal plane.
...hey, maybe this is a script waiting to happen. brb
Nah, probably still wouldn't do it.
Lately I've been thinking about the eternal void and its inescapable nature kind of terrifies me, there's no way to avoid the fact that I will die and be a nonperson. My hope is somehow we figure out how to upload our brains into the internet or something by then... assuming civilization is still recognizable in 50 years or so.
I couldn't delude myself into a belief of the afterlife just to ignore the void, so religion isn't an option. I'd probably choose to live forever in heaven. I think the ideal scenario is you get to go to heaven as long as you want, let yourself be reborn, experience a new life, come back to heaven, recuperate, etc. You can have your shared knowledge in heaven, but not in the mortal plane.
...hey, maybe this is a script waiting to happen. brb
Without wanting to sound too morbid, an end to this whole thing is something I'm perfectly OK with. I don't want to just be around forever and ever. I'm not saying I want to punch my own ticket right this second, but I absolutely don't want to live forever. I want to just turn off like a light switch one day and have that be the end of it.
I think this kind of thought stumbles on having very banal idea of what heaven, or any kind of blissful afterlife would/could be.
Imagine there is new universe to explore together with the transcendental being that made it all, but this time without the pain and suffering we have to endure in this one. No jealousy, no greed, no death. All the cosmos to explore without making a mess and polluting and ruining everything with an open relationship with the First Mover. Life, movement, creation, bliss, love.
Sounds cool to me.
Imagine there is new universe to explore together with the transcendental being that made it all, but this time without the pain and suffering we have to endure in this one. No jealousy, no greed, no death. All the cosmos to explore without making a mess and polluting and ruining everything with an open relationship with the First Mover. Life, movement, creation, bliss, love.
Sounds cool to me.
I can't try to watch One Piece from beginning to the current episodes. It's long episode count is what's preventing me from starting it.
If God really did provide me with all my wants and desires, and I wasn't just stuck in some bright place with a bunch of pious dweebs, I imagine I'd last for a very, very long time.
Pop me into a Culture book for a millennium or so and I bet I'd jump at the chance for another round.
Pop me into a Culture book for a millennium or so and I bet I'd jump at the chance for another round.
The most pressing question: Do they allow sodomy?
You put no real limits as to what we could do in heaven, in describing it as a place where you do fun, wholesome, or happy things as opposed to an amorphous state of eternal bliss or just hanging out with angels fluttering around God's silhoutte or something.
As such this is pretty functionally immortality with the ability to do whatever you want whenever you want.
As long as I have friends or family to share conversation or experiences with? I think I literally could last forever. Especially if the entire catalogue of the universe's works of media are available. Run out of things in English to enjoy? Learn a new language- I have all the time in the world after all. Run out of things made by Earthlings? Learn alien languages. And so on. Even past the heat death of the universe, another big bang would inevitably happen. I could just observe life developing anew, or continuously sleep if I get bored of that or don't want to go back to something I already enjoyed.
I've watched a few eps of "The Good Place" here and there, but I don't think this sounds very equivalent. If you mean a place that is like the setting of that show, then I give it maybe... a thousand years, tops?
But given the criteria in the OP? Literally forever. I would never get so mind-numbingly bored with such an existence. Fucksake, I basically build the same thing in Minecraft over and over and over again already- and I'd be happy to do that, without any music or podcasts.
Like seriously, the only raw deal is that I couldn't interface with the living, I assume. But they'll get here eventually.
As such this is pretty functionally immortality with the ability to do whatever you want whenever you want.
As long as I have friends or family to share conversation or experiences with? I think I literally could last forever. Especially if the entire catalogue of the universe's works of media are available. Run out of things in English to enjoy? Learn a new language- I have all the time in the world after all. Run out of things made by Earthlings? Learn alien languages. And so on. Even past the heat death of the universe, another big bang would inevitably happen. I could just observe life developing anew, or continuously sleep if I get bored of that or don't want to go back to something I already enjoyed.
I've watched a few eps of "The Good Place" here and there, but I don't think this sounds very equivalent. If you mean a place that is like the setting of that show, then I give it maybe... a thousand years, tops?
But given the criteria in the OP? Literally forever. I would never get so mind-numbingly bored with such an existence. Fucksake, I basically build the same thing in Minecraft over and over and over again already- and I'd be happy to do that, without any music or podcasts.
Like seriously, the only raw deal is that I couldn't interface with the living, I assume. But they'll get here eventually.
I can have everything I want? No bad times ever?
Joy and happiness will lose it's meaning so no, I will not last forever.
Sounds like hell to me
Joy and happiness will lose it's meaning so no, I will not last forever.
Sounds like hell to me
It's forever so you'll Have no choice but to last.
The great thing about life is that it ends. For all of us. Heaven must be the laziest concept one can think of. Imagine the ego of a person who thinks that...
One small bandaid on the religious ego: In the process of dying your brain MIGHT pull a trick on you and the final painless moment might feel timeless with a lot of hallucinations. Like in a Mushroom or LSD trip. You will than be confronted with your conscience, your hopes and fears.
No "what ifs". Make your own life worthwhile.
The great thing about life is that it ends. For all of us. Heaven must be the laziest concept one can think of. Imagine the ego of a person who thinks that...
One small bandaid on the religious ego: In the process of dying your brain MIGHT pull a trick on you and the final painless moment might feel timeless with a lot of hallucinations. Like in a Mushroom or LSD trip. You will than be confronted with your conscience, your hopes and fears.
No "what ifs". Make your own life worthwhile.
