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Is heaven better than simply not existing after death? I don't like people now as it is let alone having to spend an eternity with them.... Almost sounds like a form of hell not a paradise to aim for.
Well it depends how much you hate existence. Who said a hypothetical afterlife would have anything at all to do with spending time with people. That just doesn't make sense. People are biological, carbon-based creatures on earth. If people exist in a sort of afterlife with those characteristics, it would be more like reincarnation than anything. Hardly heaven, you're still the toy of your own impulses and physical/social needs.
There are a couple religions that have the basis on being surrounded by loved ones in the afterlife. And whether you have a physical body or are less is still a philosophical debate even among Christians. Many famous philosophers made arguments based on that very subject actually.
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[–] Fuzzycrumpkin ago
Is heaven better than simply not existing after death? I don't like people now as it is let alone having to spend an eternity with them.... Almost sounds like a form of hell not a paradise to aim for.
[–] Mint_Chocolate 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I view heaven as whatever makes you happy, maybe that's a place with no other people.
[–] ViaI ago
Well it depends how much you hate existence. Who said a hypothetical afterlife would have anything at all to do with spending time with people. That just doesn't make sense. People are biological, carbon-based creatures on earth. If people exist in a sort of afterlife with those characteristics, it would be more like reincarnation than anything. Hardly heaven, you're still the toy of your own impulses and physical/social needs.
[–] Fuzzycrumpkin ago
There are a couple religions that have the basis on being surrounded by loved ones in the afterlife. And whether you have a physical body or are less is still a philosophical debate even among Christians. Many famous philosophers made arguments based on that very subject actually.