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you are allowed to choose anything, including but not limited to: eternal oblivion, reincarnation, conditional heaven/hell judgement, purgatory, unconditional heaven, etc
hard mode: does your answer change if you are picking for everyone versus just yourself?
i feel like i would most want eternal ghost purgatory. you dont get to interact with the physical world anymore, but you can talk to any other dead person. i feel like an afterlife which is unrelated to the life i had lived on earth would make that life seem pointless. i would also want the afterlife to be unconditionally pleasant, so i would also want ghosts to be able to have arbitrary control over their sensory experiences. you can, as a group, collectively hallucinate anything you want. or opt out of that and build your own ghost virtual reality on top of reality. no one but ghosts would interact with this.
you can watch the alive people or hang out with your fellow ghosts. a sort of eternal playground afterlife
alternatively, i would want unconditional, random reincarnation, but you are reincarnated into an entirely different universe. you are guaranteed to be a sentient and mortal being, but nothing is guaranteed beyond that. i wouldnt want my experience of me to stop happening but i also dont want this world to be the only thing one could experience. maybe when you die you get to browse your past lives before you choose to reincarnate.
Both of your ideas are completely acceptable and kinda awesome actually.
i think the only scary part with random-interuniversal reincarnation is the chance you get stuck as an unhappy being for a very long time. i wouldnt want to exist if i had to exist for 10^100 years in total suffering, and the space of possible universes seems very, very large. at least it’s finite though—hence why i specify a mortal life.
i spend a lot of time making up stories in my head, i can see em feel em, whether i'm washing dishes in a back room or laying sleeplessly in my bed. So, why not just, whatever. i am sure that when we say someone's got no imagination that isn't true, we just find their imagination boring. But it probably ain't boring to them.
So heaven should be what you make of it, maybe you've thought about this your whole life, putting your little OCs in a grim reaper situation, as long as you're nice to your OCs, shouldn't be bad
a thing i wonder for 'anything you can imagine' style heaven is if you would run out of things to do. there's only so many things i could probably think of. i bet there would be experiences i could never dream up even if i had eternity to do it. would heaven get boring, not because there isn't anything to do, but because there isn't anything new you can do
(although, maybe the heaven could make old experiences feel like new, through Heaven Magic)
I'm not sure I believe in a continuous unified idea of self as a meaningful real thing, so I don't think a concept of an afterlife makes sense within that context. But assuming I'm wrong and an identity/soul exists in a way that allows the concept:
If I could pick and guarantee it to be whatever I wanted I would be torn between eternal oblivion or something like dreaming forever (disconnected random experiences lacking a core sense of self awareness.)
Answer probably stays the same if picking for everyone, but I would be tempted to choose "unconditional hell" out of spite at being given the responsibility.
Thanks for posting this, it was interesting to think about.
the narrative cant kill me if i am only a background character! (jordan is pointing out that this is absolutely not true and the narrative will probably kill me for taunting it)
