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[Heron TSG]

Honestly, I don't think that there will be an afterlife. Or if there is, it'll be about as memorable as the beforelife.

If I had to pick though, definitely Valhalla. Plenty of challenges, still a punishment for failing.

[smigenboger]

I'm not asking what after-life you think is the correct one, because I honestly don't care what is correct, just what you would wish to spend eternity doing.
I wish that the Norse had it right, battling all day and feasting all night while waiting for Ragnarok.

Assuming this is a huge crossover world with everyone elses, I'd like my section to be a couch with a big red button label 'Sober'. On the nearby TV stand there will be a remote control with buttons labeled 'LSD', 'Cannabis', 'Beer' 'Massage' (for the couch), and 'Summon Party'.

[Cheeetar]

Like the Matrix but everybody is Neo and nobody can die.

[Muz]

I like the Islamic afterlife. That is the basic one, not the one in some of the sects where everyone gets a skyscraper palace and millions of virgins.

Massive gardens and valleys, nice clothes, hot horny angels, abundant meat, fruit, and feasts, rivers of milk, honey, wine, and friends to hang out with. Apparently heaven goers are allowed to go and visit hell too, so if I wanted a battle with someone, I could just go down there and pick a fight.

Heck, the concept of being able to eat as much good food as I want without getting fat sounds like heaven to me.

[Hugehead]

Valhalla. The freedom to feast, relax, and test myself in combat against friends.

It doesn't surprise me that most of Bay 12 wants to go to the place where you fight and feast. Including me.

[Retro]

Honestly, I don't think that there will be an afterlife.

I doubt many people on the forums, or most people inclined to use forums in general, are the type of people to believe in an afterlife. That said, if I had to choose one as the topic asks, I'd go with my earlier answer.

[Puck]

There aren't that many states of existence which would be bearable for a whole eternity, I always thought.

Maybe being one with everything, complete loss of ego and self perception and stuff, but then again, could you call "being the universe" an "afterlife"?

[Omegastick]

Well, my ideal afterlife would require the loss of all human features that could cause boredom or anything to make the afterlife anything but perfect for eternity. This is because as long as it goes on for eternity we will eventually get bored of it and want to go to the after-afterlife. With this removal of all the human needs and such heaven would essentially just an endless state of pure bliss, just all the good feelings that could possibly exist put together without anything else to make it impure.

[smigenboger]

Honestly, I don't think that there will be an afterlife.

I doubt many people on the forums, or most people inclined to use forums in general, are the type of people to believe in an afterlife. That said, if I had to choose one as the topic asks, I'd go with my earlier answer.

I think someone already linked to the fun theory section of Less Wrong. The concept initially sounds great, but only compared to your current condition, hence their example of heaven being eternal rest sounding great to a peasant.

Hey Armok, if you didn't already, go binge all of Less Wrong. I will make you...
More Correct! (See what I did there?)
They have some good information on the 'big questions' without being too self-righteous about the whole deal.

[Sowelu]

I'm fond of the way I've sometimes heard the Mormon afterlife (possibly inaccurately) described:  God wants fellow creators, and now you're one too.

I'm also fond of one I saw in a short story:  God can save the brainwave patterns of people who die, and chooses to save scientists from across the universe.  "I don't know why I exist, all I know is that I can't die.  Now you have all eternity to figure out the entirety of science.  Your job is to find a way to kill me."

I'd probably pick enlightenment + sticking around to help others find Nirvana.  But enlightenment or not, I'd say that reincarnation is the way to go.  Knowledge of past lives is a big plus, but just knowing you've had them is enough.  I figure it'll be an awful lot of lifetimes before I decide to move on to the other side, and if I had to choose between either some heaven forever, or reincarnation forever--I'd choose reincarnation.  With a nice long nap in nothingness between lives; it's so peaceful there.

[stummel]

none. as in my definition of life, there could be no afterlife - at least nothing to be perceived by me.

[Sowelu]

none. as in my definition of life, there could be no afterlife - at least nothing to be perceived by me.

I'm not asking what after-life you think is the correct one, because I honestly don't care what is correct, just what you would wish to spend eternity doing.

Play along, Stummel!  I'm curious.  What WOULD you prefer if your definition turned out to be a little incomplete?

[stummel]

so you want to ask, what kind of feeling i could think of to be never ending and still not frightening nor harming and so on?

i only can compare afterlife with life, so i'll have to live it like my life. therefore i need a lot of different things. other 'afterliving' individuals, some intelectual/ emotional input - as well as output. maybe, i am the wrong one to be asked such a question?

i don't know, what could keep me happy / content forever - i'm happy, to have to die some day. but as an answer: playing football all day, writing code, sleeping with my love, eating good stuff. but again - in maybe 500 years of afterlife this may get boring or even worse - sad.

i'm sorry, i'll have to go - but i'll keep track on your answer.

[Helmaroc]

I would think that if we arrived at some 'good' afterlife (heaven rather than hell etc.) we would not ever get bored, sad, tired, hurt or angry like we do as human people on Earth, we wouldn't have any of our human shortcomings...maybe we wouldn't have any emotions at all, we would be entirely different beings. The lyrics to the Talking Heads song come to mind..

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Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven they play my favorite song.
They play it one more time, they play it all night long.

Oh heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
When this partys over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same.

Heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly
the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be this much fun.

Oh, heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.
Oh, heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.

[DeKaFu]

I think reincarnation into random animals sounds pretty good. So this life you're a human, next you're a rat, then a grasshopper, then a squid, then a rhino, then a tardigrade... ...and maybe a couple hundred down the line you're a human again.

And maybe you retain your memories, but only for a few cycles, so you're a goldfinch that remembers being a human, but by the time you're a human again you have no memory of the last time because it was long replaced by bee-memories and scallop-memories. And bees and scallops are too unthinking to have much in the way of lasting memories.

You don't have to worry about any sort of single eternal life (which would suck) because you're always getting new lives, and you'd be able to experience existing from hundreds of wildly different perspectives so it'd never get boring.

I think this is absolutely not what happens when you die.