• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • UncleArthur@lemmy.world
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    10 hours 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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      4 hours 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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      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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    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 :(

    • thewebroach@lemmy.world
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      12 hours 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.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      If you believe evolution is real, you’ll obviously never go to heaven, so you’ll never find out.

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        I thought only humans went to heaven. It’s a real can of worms otherwise. Do worms go to heaven? Mosquitos? Bacteria? Viruses?

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    I’m more concerned about the tombstones shown in the panting in heaven. like what happened to THOSE people? are they Super Dead?

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      If I don’t want afterlife I can just stay dead??

      Maybe they ask you to accept terms at the beginning & if you refuse they just let you have your peace, one life was enough.

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      From Wikipedia:

      Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that a “little flock” of 144,000 selected humans go to heaven, but that God will resurrect the majority (the “other sheep”) to a cleansed earth after Armageddon.

      I feel like the presence of the headstones and the children more points to the latter belief, that God will resurrect the dead after Armageddon or whatever.

      Like, God has resurrected your kid’s dead grandpa, straight out of the grave, and now you’re forced to deal with your shitty father-in-law for eternity

    • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
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      If I’m not mistaken, Buddhism had a being that was the ghost of a ghost. Yes, ghosts could die. Probably that’s the case.

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      This picture is from a Jehovah’s Witness publication. This isn’t a depiction of heaven, but rather a future paradise earth. And the picture depicts various people being redirected back to life.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      Shit, I’ve see this painting in person multiple times. I think it’s in one of the Manhattan museums. And I never asked any of this.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    17 hours ago

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