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.

Those are for the living, waiting to rise up.

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.

They are dildos, for the giants.

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.

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

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.

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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.

I don't think God discriminates against monkeys

If you believe evolution is real, you'll obviously never go to heaven, so you'll never find out.

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.

Based on the all dogs go to heaven philosophy, I would say the cutoff would be in the other direction.

yeah how the fuck does relativity work in heaven? I agree with you, if I died as a kid that would stuck for all of eternity to just be a kid.

Depends what you believe but many think of the concept of heaven not as a place where you see your dead family and pets, but more of a state of being including oneness with God. Sort of like nirvana. Or the Nexus if you're a Star Trek fan.

Nietze was wrong, God is undead.

Sometimes you just need to be able to kill a mf in heaven.

And that happens a lot.

So cemetery.

lots of diversity: check no interracial couples or evidence of them despite lots of diversity: check heaven is a physical place where you keep your body and there's flowers and columns and shit: check 80s romance novel cover horny painting art style: check

at least it's not ai slop

If there's an afterlife and we're counting the unborn, then it's swimming in an endless sea of sperm

Or Palestinian ones on a Tuesday

When you reunite with your kids in heaven because their mom went crazy and drive the minivan into a lake with the kids inside.

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.

That's partly why I don't believe in the existence of heaven or hell

Yes, you have to choose which eternity you want, though it doesn't necessarily have to be with either spouse.

Source: this documentary

Eternity? Marriage is only "til death do us part!"

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

I received a flyer for "Let's celebrate Jesus' death" this April. Terrible choice of words

Can you explain the Anakin joke, then?

Don't worry. This isn't real. It's a painting or ai made from someone's imagination.

Bodies don't go to heaven. They decompose and become one with the earth.

I think when first contact happens between loved ones, a common reality is unconsciously agreed upon where the family comes together under the bodies they inhabited at the time they were all together.

Since the long deceased ones have likely watched the life of the newly deceased with interest, I think that initial reality is then slowly pushed away and the (grown) children take on their more mature forms and the grand parents take on their younger forms, and they all walk away from the meeting as equals

That's how I'd do it

So the entirety of the force ghost thing didnt happen, yeah?

You get recycled, that's what

It’s been years since I’ve read Job. What was the part you’re referring to?

I just remember him being a dishwasher, since that skill travels easily and everyone has dirty dishes.

Nope, Satan got the shit beaten out of him, and didn't die. Your afterlife can just become suckier.