(October 14, 2021 at 7:02 am)Ahriman Wrote: If I had to trade some kind of earthly life for an eternal reward, I suppose I might as well suffer here (on this planet) and then get a nice reward in the afterlife, but I really don't think that's how it works.
The irony is that there is no afterlife. So anything you "trade" in our one and only real life - you are effectively throwing away - and that also includes time. Time you could be spending more productively than thinking about how you can please your God to have a better afterlife.
it's like spending your whole life fantasizing what it would be like to win the lottery one day, and because of that opting out of an education, good job, etc.
