Wow! That’s protestant work ethic taken to the extreme. Imagine if he got what he believed in.
Like how, in Terry Pratchetts Discworld, people who die get whatever afterlife they believe in. Not what they want or what they’d like to believe they deserve, but what the true consequence of their believes in combination with their true believe about their own character would be. There’s this which, who lived a really good, ethical live, but is an atheist, so she’ll get nothing. DEATH likes her, so he politely informes her, upon her departing, that she could have any eternal live she chooses. Pleasure, wisdom, anything, for ever. Just choose a believe and a god* you like. And she’s just like nah, I already knew that, and I chose to have my consciousness disperse and my body nourish the earth and become part of all nature and universal consciousness. And her spirit happily spreads out, thinning and becomes part of everything.
*On Discworld, all gods are real, but draw there power from the people who believe in them. Atheists know that and choose not to believe, mostly to spite the gods.
Wow! That’s protestant work ethic taken to the extreme. Imagine if he got what he believed in.
Like how, in Terry Pratchetts Discworld, people who die get whatever afterlife they believe in. Not what they want or what they’d like to believe they deserve, but what the true consequence of their believes in combination with their true believe about their own character would be. There’s this which, who lived a really good, ethical live, but is an atheist, so she’ll get nothing. DEATH likes her, so he politely informes her, upon her departing, that she could have any eternal live she chooses. Pleasure, wisdom, anything, for ever. Just choose a believe and a god* you like. And she’s just like nah, I already knew that, and I chose to have my consciousness disperse and my body nourish the earth and become part of all nature and universal consciousness. And her spirit happily spreads out, thinning and becomes part of everything.
*On Discworld, all gods are real, but draw there power from the people who believe in them. Atheists know that and choose not to believe, mostly to spite the gods.