• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Why are some people old in heaven? I’d want to have a 23yo body forever, thank you very much.

    And why are some people children in heaven? Does this mean they’ll never develop and get to know what it is like to be mature?

    It’s almost like this whole Heaven concept hasn’t been thought out very far.

    • tetris11@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      I think when first contact happens between loved ones, a common reality is unconsciously agreed upon where the family comes together under the bodies they inhabited at the time they were all together.

      Since the long deceased ones have likely watched the life of the newly deceased with interest, I think that initial reality is then slowly pushed away and the (grown) children take on their more mature forms and the grand parents take on their younger forms, and they all walk away from the meeting as equals

      That’s how I’d do it

  • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    So, what happens if you’ve survived a spouse and remarried? Do you have to choose who you want to spend eternity with?

    What about adopted and surrogate kids: do they have to hang out with their biological parents now?

    Heaven is such a ridiculous concept.

    • jumjummy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It’s always funny when they depict adults being reunited with their children. How come those adults aren’t depicted as children being reunited with THEIR parents… and recursively so on and so on.

    • ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      There’s an obvious answer; god decides. You asked that question which made him angry so you’re going to hell now. Its how we know you’re not one of the elect

  • GiveOver@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    What makes me sad about heaven is that there must be a cutoff in the monkey -> human evolution chain. What happened to the very first human that met that cutoff? They’ll be in heaven but their parents are too monkey and didn’t make it :(

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Or what if the apes did go to heaven? All of them? From all time. That’s a lot of apes for the early humans to deal with.

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      3 days ago

      I love this reflection. It kind of shines a spotlight on the fallibility of mainstream religions under rational thought. Could there be something after death? Sure. But the stories people are peddled arent based on any truth, it’s just telling people what they want to hear to get them to join the club.

      There’s a people heaven, and a dog heaven, and a monkey heaven, a bird heaven, etc. Like, what? There’s an estimated 8.7 million species on earth, you think there’s a heaven for each of them? When evolution spins off something new or species cross breed, like a liger from a lion and tiger, does a new heaven just pop into existence?

      Mainstream depictions of heaven are bunk.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    jedis arnt human though, so they dont have a christian equivalent heaven. maybe there is a force version of heaven.