Your spouse in Heaven

[xterra]

Deciding whether to opt for heaven or hell is not an easy task. See:



https://lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

 

[Armitage72]

I remember reading a novel decades ago, Heinlein's "Job, A Comedy of Justice", maybe. A man is in a fairly unhappy marriage when he starts randomly shifting into alternate Earths. He eventually meets a woman who starts traveling with him and they fall in love. On the assumption that he'll never get home, they get married. They eventually get separated, and the man eventually ends up in heaven. He's told that he's going to be reunited with his wife, but it turns out to be his original wife from his home dimension.

In the Order of the Stick webcomic, your form in the afterlife is based on how you see yourself on the inside. When Roy temporarily goes to Heaven, he encounters his parents. His mother is a shapely 19 year old (which greatly disturbs him) because on the inside she's still the lively and vivacious person she was in her youth. His father is the old man he was when he died because he had been a bitter and withered old man on the inside even when he was young.

I think it was a Perry Bible Fellowship comic that had a man approach God in Heaven.
"God?"
"Yes, my son?"
"Is there a pool table here?"
"Do you really need a pool table?"
"I guess not."
(God turns away)
(Man looks around in boredom) Thinks: "This sucks."

I once read about an afterlife belief that has to be one of the most pointless. The soul has two portions: a mortal portion that dies with the body, and an immortal portion that is reincarnated over and over until its spiritual growth is complete and it "achieves union with the Godhead", ceasing to exist as a distinct entity. The real kicker is that memories and personality are contained in the mortal portion of the soul. Not only does what makes you "you" die with your body, what does survive will eventually be consumed too.

 

[arthwollipot]

In the Order of the Stick webcomic, your form in the afterlife is based on how you see yourself on the inside. When Roy temporarily goes to Heaven, he encounters his parents. His mother is a shapely 19 year old (which greatly disturbs him) because on the inside she's still the lively and vivacious person she was in her youth. His father is the old man he was when he died because he had been a bitter and withered old man on the inside even when he was young.

Coincidentally, when I reached the point where Roy got to play blocks with his brother who died as a child, something mysteriously got into my eyes.

 

[kedo1981]

The bible ideas of heaven are what an iron age goat herder thinks would be great, cool breezes clean water and all the turnups you can eat.
A modern person's idea would be more elaborate, a starship crewed with sexy humanoid aliens, vast knowledge so on so on.
A fundy would say well it aint hell.

 

[bruto]

The bible ideas of heaven are what an iron age goat herder thinks would be great, cool breezes clean water and all the turnups you can eat.
A modern person's idea would be more elaborate, a starship crewed with sexy humanoid aliens, vast knowledge so on so on.
A fundy would say well it aint hell.

Phooey. If I have to spend eternity with my ex wife without even a rutabaga to nibble on I'm outa there!