Thursday, July 11, 2024

Highly Different Afterlives

Just because there is an afterlife does not mean everyone would necessarily receive it.  For those who do, the nature of their afterlife could be random, but still logically possible, varying enormously from one person to another.  One person might be reincarnated to Earth, another reincarnated to a separate planet, while another might float in a void, another might face God or other spiritual entities, and still another might be tormented amorally by a malevolent being.

It would not be logically impossible for someone to enter a hellish dimension for a time only to be rescued by God or something else.  Perhaps their soul and whatever bodily construct it might inhabit once again would perish and be revived, the afterlife being a series of metaphysical resuscitations to consecutively face very different conditions.  Someone might exist in a blissful garden for a year while another person exists in the same location eternally.

Even then, the subjective experience might differ in that one person enjoys what others dread.  Floating in an infinite void of matter would seem freeing and peaceful to some, while to others the experience might be so dull or vast that it is terrifying to think about it at all.  Subjectivity is an aspect of minds, and if there is an afterlife, there might not be a new body that consciousness inhabits, but there must be necessity be a mind or else there would be no experience.

The true randomness that is logically possible for afterlives is such that even if a specific afterlife or contrasting fates turns out to be universal, it could have been true that the afterlife is very divergent from person to person.  As strange as it is, as almost totally undiscovered as this truth is in many circles, nothing about it contradicts logical axioms, so all of this remains possible.  Moreover, not everything that is logically possible is positive.

There is an uncaused cause.  Consciousness is metaphysically distinct from the body whatever the causal or correlative relationship ultimately is.  From either of these things, it does not follow that there is an afterlife of any sort, though of course nothing about an afterlife contradicts logical axioms.  Only certain ideas of an afterlife where logical axioms are untrue or where something like eternal torment is justice are impossible because these things contradict necessary truths.  This leaves an extraordinary number of highly different afterlives a genuine logical possibility, even all at once.

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