Post by Scruffy on Aug 11, 2013 16:02:03 GMT -5
The Afterlife: A Theory
In everyone's life one at least once contemplates what form the afterlife would take. It's something that cannot be proven, possibly not even after death. But what if the afterlife exists in several zones, or demensions? This is a theory I've seen a couple of people bring up, and I've thought about a lot myself, and I'd like to explain my take on it: The theory that you go to the afterlife you expect to, or hope to, go to after you die.
Most of the things written here are my own explanations of it and are not taken from the dieas of someone else except the general idea that you "go where you think you will go".
General explanation
According to this theory, if you think you go to heaven when you die, that's where you go. If you believe in reincarnation, you will reincarnate into another animal. If you believe you'll be a ghost, you will. If you believe in the happy hunting grounds, that's where you will go. If you believe your consciousness will be spread all over the universe, that's what will happen to you. Whatever.
Hope overrides belief
In order to keep the soul fulfilled and to ensure no disappointment about dying, the laws of the afterlife allow hope to override belief. Thus, if you believe you will go to hell for your sins, but hope to go to heaven, you go to heaven. If you hope you will be with your family but believe you'll go to purgatory, you'll go wherever the majority of your family went. If this theory is true, then very few people actually go to hell. Unless you actually want to go to hell. Ok. It's your life yo.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation gets a little more complicated. Let's say the soul exists forever and cannot be destroyed. If you believe there is no afterlife, the soul cannot go nowhere, and your consciousness must continue. You will reincarnate. Same will happen if you believe you will go to, say, the egyptian afterlife, where you must go through obstacles before Anubis weighs your heart to see if you can pass on. If your heart doesn't past the test you are fed to crocodiles. Second death, permanent this time, right? No. You will reincarnate. BAM.
Non-human-animals
You may ask where animals fit into this equation. Do they have souls? Well, personally I believe they do, or at least most of them. I think anything with consciousness does. With this theory, where would they go? Does an animal give a soft damn where it goes after death? It probably doesn't think about it much. With this theory an animal will go wherever the human they had the most friendly relationship with goes. If the animal has never met a human or has only had negative experiences with them, it will reincarnate. So you could still see your pets after death.
Precalculated Belief & Hope
You might have heard many theories about how time is not linear. Let's say the universe somehow uses this to understand where you will go when you die, even if your beliefs are different now than when you die. So that would be why an animal, who dies before you, may go to heaven, although you believe only in reincarnation at the time, because at the end you would believe in heaven.
A lonely world
If you believe, and hope, that you will go to an afterlife completely constructed by yourself and unique beyond your imagination, you'll be the only one there. God damn it.
Mediators/Psychics/Ghost communicators
The afterlives are organized into layers. The closest one to our demension is ghostlihood, and that is why ghosts sometimes fuck around with the world around them but cannot be seen or understood by common people. People who can communicate with the dead and/or see them can reach into, and see into, the demensional layers. Reincarnation is of course excluded from this, as they are living their new lives already in the living demension.
What about God?
Where would God be in this? If he exists there'd be no way to know. Maybe he'd be residing in heaven or hopping back and forth between the afterlives. the fuck should I know?
This is just a theory
this is most likely completely inaccurate and this is kind of messy and was just for fun. THIS can never be proven. So don't try. Just live your life. peaCE
In everyone's life one at least once contemplates what form the afterlife would take. It's something that cannot be proven, possibly not even after death. But what if the afterlife exists in several zones, or demensions? This is a theory I've seen a couple of people bring up, and I've thought about a lot myself, and I'd like to explain my take on it: The theory that you go to the afterlife you expect to, or hope to, go to after you die.
Most of the things written here are my own explanations of it and are not taken from the dieas of someone else except the general idea that you "go where you think you will go".
General explanation
According to this theory, if you think you go to heaven when you die, that's where you go. If you believe in reincarnation, you will reincarnate into another animal. If you believe you'll be a ghost, you will. If you believe in the happy hunting grounds, that's where you will go. If you believe your consciousness will be spread all over the universe, that's what will happen to you. Whatever.
Hope overrides belief
In order to keep the soul fulfilled and to ensure no disappointment about dying, the laws of the afterlife allow hope to override belief. Thus, if you believe you will go to hell for your sins, but hope to go to heaven, you go to heaven. If you hope you will be with your family but believe you'll go to purgatory, you'll go wherever the majority of your family went. If this theory is true, then very few people actually go to hell. Unless you actually want to go to hell. Ok. It's your life yo.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation gets a little more complicated. Let's say the soul exists forever and cannot be destroyed. If you believe there is no afterlife, the soul cannot go nowhere, and your consciousness must continue. You will reincarnate. Same will happen if you believe you will go to, say, the egyptian afterlife, where you must go through obstacles before Anubis weighs your heart to see if you can pass on. If your heart doesn't past the test you are fed to crocodiles. Second death, permanent this time, right? No. You will reincarnate. BAM.
Non-human-animals
You may ask where animals fit into this equation. Do they have souls? Well, personally I believe they do, or at least most of them. I think anything with consciousness does. With this theory, where would they go? Does an animal give a soft damn where it goes after death? It probably doesn't think about it much. With this theory an animal will go wherever the human they had the most friendly relationship with goes. If the animal has never met a human or has only had negative experiences with them, it will reincarnate. So you could still see your pets after death.
Precalculated Belief & Hope
You might have heard many theories about how time is not linear. Let's say the universe somehow uses this to understand where you will go when you die, even if your beliefs are different now than when you die. So that would be why an animal, who dies before you, may go to heaven, although you believe only in reincarnation at the time, because at the end you would believe in heaven.
A lonely world
If you believe, and hope, that you will go to an afterlife completely constructed by yourself and unique beyond your imagination, you'll be the only one there. God damn it.
Mediators/Psychics/Ghost communicators
The afterlives are organized into layers. The closest one to our demension is ghostlihood, and that is why ghosts sometimes fuck around with the world around them but cannot be seen or understood by common people. People who can communicate with the dead and/or see them can reach into, and see into, the demensional layers. Reincarnation is of course excluded from this, as they are living their new lives already in the living demension.
What about God?
Where would God be in this? If he exists there'd be no way to know. Maybe he'd be residing in heaven or hopping back and forth between the afterlives. the fuck should I know?
This is just a theory
this is most likely completely inaccurate and this is kind of messy and was just for fun. THIS can never be proven. So don't try. Just live your life. peaCE