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What is your ideal afterlife?

>> No.6409521
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>>6409500
Several dreams of life lived over with memories retained.
Elaborate erotic fantasy
A second chance
A third as semi-immortal
A life set in the past

But actual death awaiting you when you're ready.

>> No.6409536

the same except DFW is alive and he's my dad

>> No.6409547
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6409547

>>6409500
A lack of suffering

>> No.6409552

>>6409500
A long journey through all manner of places and situations designed to tempt you away from the 'ideal' and off to somewhere that satisfies you in the short-term. At the end of this journey, you get an almost perfect understanding of how everything works, but are forced to sit there and contemplate on what you've learned.

So basically contemplation, reflection, and enlightenment. In roughly that order.

>> No.6409553

>>6409500
Preferably nothing at all

>> No.6409559

eternal olive garden - unlimited breadsticks

>> No.6409588

>>6409500
an existence where growth and development are still possible. The journey is more important than the destination, because the forging of one's 'self' so to speak is where experience is truly found.

Sorry about the mixing of metaphors. I like the idea >>6409521 of accepting non existence when you're ready.

>> No.6409603

Infinite stories.

Live a life as a middle-aged man in New York, working the stock market. Die in the normal way. Wake up immediately afterwards as a dragon hatching. Terrorize a fantasy land with your might, but eventually submit to a group of brave heroes. Find yourself the Queen of a great space empire. Have children. Die after an assassination attempt.

Perhaps with others on the journey with you, on occasion. Characters re-appearing. The knight that slew you when you were a dragon now your lover, the child you bore now your greatest rival. Infinite scenarios to contemplate, act in. Infinite opportunities to grow.

And, should you even run out of possibilities, sweet nothingness.

>> No.6409643

DMT superAImachineelfgodbeings take mah consciousness and I go chillax with them in the hyperspace as some abstract form of being.

>> No.6409662
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"I didn't think it would end this way."
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
"What? Gandalf? See what?"
"White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
"Well, that isn't so bad."
"No. No, it isn't.”

>> No.6409694

it's like getting killed in an online shooter, you can see everything and go anywhere but nobody knows you're there

>> No.6409699

>>6409500
This life all over again.

>> No.6409793
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>>6409500
None, this life is bad enough it would be even worse if I had to live another.

>> No.6409816

I would like my consciousness to be spread over all of space and time.

>> No.6409823

>>6409816
Maybe it already is.

>> No.6409826

>>6409823
That's the best bit.

>> No.6409836

>>6409793
This. I've been mentally ill for so long that I just want the pain to go away.

>> No.6409855
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Nothing would be more divine than to eternally return to face any hardship that is thrown at me

>> No.6409856

Oblivion.

On shrooms once I freaked out because I realized the gravity of true nothingness. I gave myself over to it, thinking I was going to die, and I was so at peace. Words will not be able to express my disappoint if I were to wake up in some new dimension or life after I end this one. Luckily, I strongly believe this universe will give us the nothingness I am looking forward to.

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6409862

Become a god of my own reality, like in Akira.

>> No.6410022

>>6409856
I took shrooms and became convinced that all other people were just illusions and that they'd disappeared (I was at home and alone). I ended up just going around my house inspecting my family member's things. I walked outside after a bit and almost walked into my neighbor's house when they came out and asked me what I was doing.
>>6409500
I figure that being a ghost would be an interesting afterlife. Just going around watching how people live.

>> No.6410065

Watch my own life from an outside perspective
Watch the life of every ancestor
Have any question I want answered
Go to Heaven/Empyrean/Realm of Ideal Forms

idk

>> No.6410092

Goal oriented toil with positive feedback for quality work. Slothing around for eternity is lame.

>> No.6410097

>>6410092
Why would God need anyone to work for Him?

>> No.6410105

>>6410097
Wageslave to the nether and beyond.

>> No.6410110

>>6410105
Sorry, I read Goal as God.

What would the positive feedback be like, being already dead?

>> No.6410120

complete and utter pure euphoria, a crack rush mixed with a deep roll and a fat shot of smack and a bar under the tongue sippin a craft beer

constantly, with boredom no such thing in this realm, so it's just pure euphoria

>> No.6410135

>>6410110
The admiration of other ghosts

>> No.6410914

Living in a self maintaining day spa on boulders on an ocean shore under a grey sky, with the one I love by day and traveling the astral planes by night.

>> No.6410917

>>6409521

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>> No.6410963

all these ideas of the afterlife are based on capitalist ideology

>> No.6410966

I'd take the current world, I just want to fly around unassisted. Like superman or some shit just cruising through the clouds.

>> No.6410968

>>6409500
Not my ideal afterlife, but Valhalla sounds quite amazing.

>> No.6410970

>>6409699
That's the Übermensch spirit.

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>>6409662
this is my favorite scene

>> No.6410987

>>6409500

the sun is always in the process of setting
there is a small pond
Richard Linklater sits nearby smoking a long pipe and rambling
we drink toddies together all day, every day while watching movies on the projector screen in the sky

>> No.6411019

I wish to see fully what I've glimpsed in dreams. I don't mean dreams as in hopes or wish fulfillment, but dreams came to me and left me in awe as they felt otherworldly and beyond what my mind could comprehend. I remember a feeling or a vague image that completely went against my perception of time. It could be anything. Existing in past present and future simultaneously. Erasing any such notions. The possibility that my mind is a strictly hermeneutical tool that has existed before who I "am" presently in another human being or organism.

It reminds me of the book A Voyage to Arcturus when the protagonist realizes he sees colors he never knew existed, and do not exist on Earth. Or O'Brien's the Third Policeman, when the main character encounters a substance he cannot fully describe, but it is otherworldly to an absurd degree. I wonder if that's what death could be. Suddenly the veil is lifted from your existence as a human. You see it was all so simple. Suddenly there's more colors, more notes on the scale, more everything than what you could have seen in life. But deep down you knew. Dreams may have been the hint to it. Maybe you'll go back again underneath. And like in Mason & Dixon you'll look up at the stars and wonder how complex it all looks and yet to God these celestial bodies may just be look like simple algebra equations.

But then it's most likely a defense mechanism my own brain set up. Some people dream of heaven, others dream of reincarnation. I dream of becoming an abstract to myself. It's all probably just to help oneself cope with the ephemeral bullshit of it all.

>> No.6411388

>>6411019
>A Voyage to Arcturus
Didn't know about this book, just read about it and it sounds like it could be one of my favourite books ever
Thank you for this opportunity, I'm going to try it out soon

>> No.6411403

>>6409662
>Gandalf? See what?"
>"White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
>It's New Zealand

>> No.6411419

>>6409553
>>6409793
My negroes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJA7J7LTao

>> No.6411703

>>6409500
Either becoming an observer of humanity's and the whole universe development, or being shown what will happen at the distant future of the universe. after that just vanishing into nothing.

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I'd like the opportunity to read everything that's ever been written, and to write stories forever.

I'm a bit like Borges. Heaven, to me, is a kind of giant library, but it also has desks where I can set my laptop down and work.

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>>6409559
>having to poop in a public restroom eternally

you've chosen hell

>> No.6411756

I have died and been reborn many times, the final death is nothing to me but a sleep I might not wake up from, like any other.

>> No.6411772

Peace. A final clarity of thought before eternal nothingness. A dream where everything is happening, and everything is beautiful, but I have no consiousness to observe and judge it.

>> No.6411776

My Ideal? I never thought about it. I always just thought there was nothing. That doesn't seem very ideal, but I can't shake it.

I suppose I'd like that there would be peace there, and something to do, maybe people too.

>> No.6411778

resurection as a +8/10 male

>> No.6411780

>>6409500
A longer life

>> No.6411821

Republican heaven couldn't be all bad I guess...

Sitting in a chair watching bugs bunny cartoons with no pants on, Hillary Clinton sloppily gobbling my knob while admitting "Benghazi is all my fault because I'm a useless whore, skullfuck youruseless whore, my master." Barack Obama dancing a jig in the corner while painted in black face makeup and singing "sweet dreams are made of this" my the eurythmics, a computer screen to my right showing all minorities being led to death camps by robot guards painted to look like Santa Claus, a glass of 20 year pappy van winkle bourbon in a glass with a perfectly shaped ice sphere barely touching the sides and bottom. My finger on the button as The entire Middle East (including Israel) is vaporized by a flood of minuteman ICBM's. The ghost of Ronald Reagan standing behind me, giving me a shoulder massage whispering... "Well, you finally did it."

I don't know, I have t really thought about it.

Shit up and suck it, Hillary. Everyone knows Benghazi is your fault.

>> No.6411999

To be a sort of ghost cruising through the universe, visiting tons of planets and galaxies in my new immaterial form.