First thing first: Where are all my cats that already went ahead of me. We've got lots of things to catch up on.
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We can find lost things after we die? I wanna be reunited with all the ponytail holders-rubberbands-hair-baubles I've lost over the years.
wtf was that all about?
That I was able to retaliate against the billionaire class that made my people suffer. Can I throw rubbish at them while their spirits are chained in the bad place?
Comprehensive stats for my run.
Nothing. Iโm dead.
Finally... Phew!
That I mattered.
I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet.
I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn't even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can't even imagine it today?
I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What's the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that's gonna happen.
Tried to figure out how to post this comment a couple times without it sounding like proselyting my own view point. Can't manage it. So I'll just add this here: that's not what I'm doing! I'm not attempting to convince anyone of anything. Lol.
I'm a nondualist. Panentheism, to be more specific. I believe that existence is God's way of experiencing. In other words, we are not just ourselves, and not just reincarnated as the next thing down the line, or spending eternity in heaven. But that every creature, every rock, every thing that has ever or will ever exist is you. You are Ghandi, and you're also your own mother. You're hitler, and you're Stalin. You are God. And in between, after, and before, when you're in that state of being without limitations, without boundaries and illusions of duality and separateness, you are fully aware of every thing you have been and will be. You understand all.
It brings me comfort. It has allowed me to come to peace with the fact that I will die some day. It hasn't given me peace for the people I have lost, but I try to remember them as the forms of God I love best, and the forms of God that knew me best. One day I will be gone, and I will dissolve back into the divine, and I won't be so sad about losing those forms and those people, because I will be with them, as them, and know them better than I could ever have in this form.
As a little aside, another way I like to look at this is through a Betty White quote. She once asked her mother what happens after we die, and her mother told her it was a secret. So whenever Betty lost someone she would say to herself "they learned the secret today"
The secret is that you get to learn everything, at least as far as I believe.
When you lost Age of Empires and the fog of war disappeared and you could see everything for the rest fo the game. That's the goal.
I don't want just to see the future, but the past as well. Would be nice to witness some unadulterated historical moments.
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If I know anything at all after I'm dead, I will already have the answer to the biggest question from all major religions
I just want to know that my wife is safe. That's the only thing that would keep me here.
My first instinct is to make a crude joke about your wife.
But that's actually really sweet!
I too, choose this guys wife.
The exact weight of all my poops combined. I feel like I had a productive life.
And to have it be presented to you all in one big heaping steaming fragrant pile?
There is no "know" after you die. Best to know before you die. After there is nothing.
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Why am I still here?
I just humbly want to know who would have thought that creating a universe with so many terrible things was a good idea?
Was HL3 good?
OMG! So many things. I'd probably spend months looking through the stats of my life alone. But first, dinosaurs! What did they actually look like? How did they act? What actually killed them?
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I'd want to know future generations know I'm sorry for the planet we left them.
Unredacted epstein files. And throw in jfk while your at it. Oh and maybe I guess also if conformal cyclic cosmology is legit and the answer to the grand unification of einstenien relativity and quantum mechanics, but mostly the first 2.
And Jimmy Hoffa mysteries solved too.
Four things come to mind:
Who was meant to be the X to my Y? What was I meant to do in my life? Whose lives did I help change the most? Whose lives did I actually make a living hell?
How many gallons I came
At the time of death, or, uh, cumulatively?
A little from column A little from column b
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Why do we have consciousness?
What was the purpose of all these shenanigans?
To have them.
"The dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive." -Full Metal Jacket
I want to know if the Gnostics were right and this really is a prison planet for consciousnesses. The next thing I want to know is how to escape from the prison.
Wait, I'm conscious enough to have questions? So, now what?
my score and current rank
If I get infinite attempts cus I feel like if I don't go for another run I'm gonna get bored at some point
How does this whole haunting thing work? Cuz I got a few heart attacks to dish out.
Is my partner okay and do my comrades succeed
How not to be born again, how not to exist. Be free of the worldly miseries.
Advaita Vedanta courtesy
Well Iโd definitely want to know how the universe was formed.
How to live forever. Oh wait...
I used to wonder about how my family and friends would react and what they'd do If I just stopped existing for one reason or another.
It's a pretty "normal" thought to have when you're depressed I think, and it's what sends you further down the spiral. But yeah, even as someone who wants to believe in an afterlife, I wouldn't want to know anything about what I left behind.
What do you want to eat after universe ends?
Milliways?
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