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The only problem with that idea is that most gods have a pretty firm do-not-compete clause. So you're just going to wind up pissing of Yaweh by paying homage to Baal, and Allah is going to want to roast you for hanging out with Vishnu, and honestly Huitzilopochtli is going to want to fuck you around in any case because that dude's sort of a dick.
If you're going to rock Pascal's Wager in a multidenominational world you're probably going to want to avoid as much religious instruction as possible and treat other people really, really well. That way you stand a pretty good shot of getting into one of the shallow hells for "virtuous nonbelievers" and by all accounts they're not too shabby. At least compared to some of the more exotic options available in terms of boiling lakes of excrement and demons with sharp objects.
Uhhh
That is not what most afterlives are.
Believe it or not, this is where a lot of my confidence stems from.
"To live is to die" ect.
Well I mean an awesome afterlife of course. Like heaven
this doesn't really matter, as all theories about the afterlife are equally worthless, no matter how much of them say the same
What makes me happy is the disparity between the meaning of your life for yourself, and the meaning of your life in the grand scheme.
In infinity, every fixed duration of time could just as well be nothing
your mind is all I wanna have fun
whereas your soul is all I wanna worship and go to church and yay god
All doing mathematical calculation and data storage.
Your glands are where the party's at.
Way to go and complicate things.
he probably would
I guess he'd be pretty amazed at the people calling themselves buddhists
what with the "don't worship me" thing
man, you want to come back to this fucking place?
Hey, we've gotta call it something. The Taoists already got on "Tao". Nobody worships Buddha if they're Buddhist, they just understand that his teachings are the most profound way (tao, dammit) to enlightenment. "Buddhist" is easier to say than "People who base their lives around the teachings of and wish to emulate his ways due to his surpassing wisdom, but do not worship, the man who was Buddha."
That said, when I die, I want it to hurt really really badly.
For at least 5 minutes. If not a few months.
Lotta cancer going on in this family.
boner alert
Jesus seems like a pretty up-tight guy so I guess that's been ruled out, so what do you guys think?
Then again it is probably a bad idea to ask SE++ for help on this sort of thing.
He turned water into wine so I think he's fine with sharing a beer with you
this guy
I bet he is exactly how every person that enters Heaven imagines him. One person thinks he is the omnipotent, we-are-not-worthy guy, while another guy sees him as the dude you can go over and have a bar-b-que with.
But I'm more on science's side on this one. When your prayers are answered either now, later, or never, how is that different from what you want happening without divine intervention?
I think I like the whole Norse Pantheon idea, not only do I get to attend a wicked eternal kegger that after life would be far more metal than anything any other afterlife has to offer.
you only get to go to valhalla if you died a warrior's death
any major dude will tell you
Sounds easy enough.
i always forget that i want to go to valhalla when these threads come up
a much less bleak outlook than having your soul torn to shreds and strewn across the universe
okay
just thought I'd let you know
you don't get to go to valhalla if you die the straw death
any major dude will tell you
hey satan...: thinkgeek amazon My post | my website
basically there is a soul made of pure energy, anchored to one's body, and it goes to a parallel dimension when you die
unfortunately the dimension is a black void of nothingness
but you can pass through it if you were a mentally balanced person before death
any major dude will tell you
Probably like tie my beard to a large boulder and just swing it around at people like some swinging weapon of doom.
That is how vikings did it right?
pass through it to where
a) i don't want to leave this life behind
b) i don't like being uncertain about what's next
I like to think that heaven is just being within a godlike, essentially good presence.
Most fifth graders don't think about stuff like that. I believe it contributed to me being so fucked up for a while. That, in turn, is largely responsible for my few positive qualities.
I was suicidal in the past. Depression left me severely apathetic. I didn't really care what happened, so when life got frustrating, annoying, or just dull, I'd think "Hey, why not try being dead?" It makes it hard to care about angsty pre-teens who cut themselves for attention. The only times I was really determined I was also extremely paranoid, so wasn't able to leave bed.
I don't really fear death. I got it out of my system at a young age. There's nothing to be done about it anyway.
I'm a crazy fundamentalist, so I believe that there is a part of a person the survives death. This part continues on in the same way it did while in the body, either worshiping God or isolated from him.
I might be a little obsessed with death. I tend to like morbid comedy and medieval memento moris fascinate me. I'd rather see a character die a meaningful death than survive. I tend not to talk about death too much, because people get creeped out.