^ That's a well-thought out response! I particularly like the paragraph about DMT, and your reminder that so much is about the chemicals in our heads. We get so caught up in the nuances of our thoughts and feelings that it's salutory to be reminded that they're generated by chemicals and sparks or whatever.
Also you neatly answer my point about everyone having a heaven; it's only in your head anyway, so of course everyone has one each. Nice.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Yeah I have a (not entirely serious) theory about that. When you die, you go to this huge waiting room. After what seems like (and may be) an eternity, listening to some truly awful elevator music, you're called into the presence of not God, of course, but one of his aides. A busy man, he directs you to a chair without looking up. He pushes a form over the desk towards you, again without raising his eyes. There are three options on the form, and you are to check one and only one. He informs you (looking up for the first time, with blazing red eyes just for one microsecond) that this contract is legally binding throughout eternity and beyond.
Your choices of Afterlife are:
1. You may choose to go back to Earth, reincarnated in another body. You accept the small print which tells you you will have no recollection of your previous life, and that any flashes of "memory" you may get from time to time are nothing more than what humans call Deja Vu, and should be dismissed as such.
2. You may spend eternity in a room off to the right, which will afford you access (sound and vision) to your loved ones still alive. You may then watch over them. When they too pass on, you will be allowed to choose option 1 or 3 again. The contract states very clearly that you will NOT be able to interfere in the lives of anyone living, just observe.
3. You may opt for your own private Heaven. This will be filled with all the things and people you wish, you can be who you want, do what you want and live any life you want, forever.
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^ This is an interestingly detailed scenario, TH, but if I end up in a place where I have to make complex choices that carry irrevocable long-term consequences, then I know I will have arrived at my own private Hell!
^ That's good! In a couple of seconds they've covered the main plot of that entire Bedazzled movie in which Dudley Moore doesn't quite specify the details of his Paradise - although now I think of it, Dudley Moore was selling his soul to Satan for an earthly Paradise, while suicide bombers are laying down their lives for an eternal reward from God. Supposedly complete opposites morally, but also superficially the same kind of deal.
