(July 22, 2016 at 4:17 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 22, 2016 at 12:40 pm)Stimbo Wrote: In the Abrahamic scenario, I know for a fact that I'd end up afflicted with heaven. It would be the single most cruel punishment a sick deity could possibly do to me.
The christian scenario is a new earth which we will inhabit in our resurrected bodies.
Wow, that's actually worse. I'd rather take my threescore-and-ten (not literally, necessarily) and then hand my seat over to the next generation. I'm not so selfish as to want more life than I'm budgeted.
And if our old friend Troy 'Mininal [sic] Facts' Brooks is anything to go by - amd please don't tell me he is, because I don't want to live in that reality - the New Earth is going to be Mars. Nope, not some terraformed colony; raw, oxided, CO2-breathing Mars.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
