Reunited in heaven... with who?
Posted on: March 22, 2009 - 2:21am
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Reunited in heaven... with who?
Okay, here's a though:
Your partner dies. You're hold by a well meaning theist you'll be reunited with them in the afterlife.
How, then, can you have a relationship with someone else whilst maintaining the belief that you would be reunited with your previous partner?
And when you get to the afterlife, are you reunited with both? That's gotta be awkward to say the least!
Thoughts? Especially from theists.
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Depends on the religion. Christianity does say that you'll be reunited with the other believers that you knew in life, including any spouses, but that the church is collectively to be the "Bride of Christ", that is, everyone will be married to Jesus and terrestrial marriages will apparently be dissolved, they being for the purpose of procreation first and foremost. Islam does say you'll join your spouse or spouses, and still be married. Of course, Islam has no issues with polygamy, so there's no real problem there. In the Indian religions, the ultimate point of existence is to reach Nirvana, in which the individual identity is suppressed to the point that you wouldn't have any petty emotions like jealousy toward your spouse anyway.
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Honestly, the best thought that comes to mind is from Archie Bunker on heart transplants.
On a more personal note, let's just say that the theist lie is actually true. Well, I never had a priest file paperwork for me and my GF, so I suspect that we will not be going there. Even if, she stopped putting out years ago. So when we both get there, I ought to be meeting her, several other women who have been willing to put out and a goodly number of hookers.
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How about this scary thought. You die and you are reunited with your ex-wife forever. I guess that means your in hell then, at least from my perspective. If the theist lie is true, and I was married in a Catholic Church, then since the Church doesn't recognize my divorce and they make rules that supposedly will be binding in heaven, I'd be doomed to spend eternity with a raving bitch. Therefore I'd be in hell regardless of all the other wonderful promises and claims made elsewhere. No thanks, I'll continue in my blasphemous ways.
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The last thing I want to see happen when I die is running into all the assholes I outlived.
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Eternity and human sanity simply isnt compatible (for reasons already quoted)
Even if there is an afterlife your personality would have to be so greatly modified to survive it, you would no longer be you and your old personality might as well have died
I can't imagine eternity with one person. Even if she looked like Leah Thompson at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance and had the brain of Marie Curie and the sex drive of um... I dunno... whatever movie star has a really high sex drive... I'm pretty sure I'd be tired of her shit after a couple million years.
Oh, and while I'm on the point and being a total sexist bastard, if the Christian version of heaven is true, and I'm never going to get laid again, why is it that I'm putting up with staying home watching chick flicks instead of playing pool with the guys?
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There's an afterlife? Hmm, yea its call death.
Imagine this, your love died 20-30 years ago young and attractive and you've aged into an old balding fat and bony forgetful burned out toothless animal, umm, why would she/he get back with you?
People who think there is something they refer to as god don't ask enough questions.
Don't you guys know that heaven magics all those problems away? Duh!
ehhhhhhh doesn't matter about that. You're probably not going to get laid in heaven anyways cuz sex is dirty....... remember? Wait....... if you're not going to get laid in heaven, why would anybody wanna go? For that matter why call it heaven?
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