I'm more concerned about the tombstones shown in the panting in heaven. like what happened to THOSE people? are they Super Dead?
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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.
I saw this picture and it immediately gave me flashbacks to JW flyers
What makes me sad about heaven is that there must be a cutoff in the monkey -> human evolution chain. What happened to the very first human that met that cutoff? They'll be in heaven but their parents are too monkey and didn't make it :(
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.
If i'm wrong someone can correct me, but don't a lot of christians believe that your aoul lies in wait until the day of judgement anyway? So everyone shows up at heaven at the same time.
Time works differently when you're dead
Edit: sorry... don't let me ruin your meme lol, i'm just religious infodumping
It depends. Some sects believe in the concept of "particular judgment" -- you are judged and go to heaven (or hell, or Detroit) immediately upon death (I think Catholics believe this). Other sects believe in the doctrine of "last judgement" where all the dead are put on hold until the end of the world, and then judged en mass. There is, as usual, conflicting Biblical passages on this point.
My family took a novel approach to it. Everyone gets judged when they die, but only the worst go to hell, and the best go to heaven. The rest wait around until the rapture and then there is Judgement 2: Judgement Day where all the people that were waiting around get judged against all the new people, and then they are split based on some kind of holy bell curve. It was really just a lot of bullshit to get around my family being full of drug addicts and racists and no one wanting to admit that if they go by the Bible they are hellbound.
Holy moly bell curve.
Well, there's also an apocalypse, right?
There's probably multiple. Or at least there's multiple interpretations of it.
I remember reading that bit.
But even if that's the actual version, this painting just assumes you down near the people you're wanting to see. Even though those groups would likely have mutually exclusive members? Does everybody get split into though copies to be everywhere they need to be at once?
There's so much unanswered lore specifics. Revelation was the first part I stopped believing in.
It just seems like whoever wrote it (I think it's supposed to be John, but those people still think Moses was a real person, so who knows) had dropped too much acid like 10 hours before and was having a really bad comedown phase. None of it is coherent at all.
And the fact that Trump is by far the closest any human has come to being the actual antichrist while they all just follow blindly is the most depressing humor around.
Any other tiny sleight they will call out preemptively (thinking of late 90s/early 00s satanic panic stuff, like Pokémon is evil because it's made by a company called Wizards of the Coast, and they also make a game called Magic!), but actual Hitler Jr? Nah, they love him to death.
Enjoy your mythology. I prefer my imaginary afterlife to be interpreted literally.
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.
It's crazy to me that he said something that well articulated once, and then never again.
Is it? It's not like he had many opportunities after, on account of, y'know, being on the Death Star when it blew up.
"Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?"
Israel.
USAF
ICE
Isn't it a little tortuous to send children to heaven as children. Even if just a spirit, the appearance and mind of a child feels a little Kirsten Dunst in interview with a vampire. Same with the old. Who wants to go to heaven as an old man or woman?
Most conceptions of heaven kinda feel like hell. This picture scares the hell out of me.
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.
This looks like some jehovahs witness "art."
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
No women in pants: check
at least it's not ai slop


Measles. Thanks RFK Jr.
What reality takes precedence in heaven? My view of my grandmother or her own view? Or is heaven a bubble of reality for what each individual wishes most?
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.
I'm pretty sure JWs believe that heaven is like IRL and simply do not ask the obvious follow up questions because they are a cult
Jehovah's witness fan art makes for such great memes.
I received a flyer for "Let's celebrate Jesus' death" this April. Terrible choice of words
Why are they in a fucking cemetery?! What the fuck is going on up there?
Nietze was wrong, God is undead.
Statistically, if there's an afterlife, there's billions of babies and fetuses in it.
So, what happens if you've survived a spouse and remarried? Do you have to choose who you want to spend eternity with?
What about adopted and surrogate kids: do they have to hang out with their biological parents now?
Heaven is such a ridiculous concept.
That's partly why I don't believe in the existence of heaven or hell
Just another school shotin' for jesus!
Child mortality was high back then, eh?
Edit: just saw the Anakin after.
Why are some people old in heaven? I’d want to have a 23yo body forever, thank you very much.
And why are some people children in heaven? Does this mean they’ll never develop and get to know what it is like to be mature?
It’s almost like this whole Heaven concept hasn’t been thought out very far.
jedis arnt human though, so they dont have a christian equivalent heaven. maybe there is a force version of heaven.
So the entirety of the force ghost thing didnt happen, yeah?
Iranian mommies and daddies when the war with US starts:
Or Palestinian ones on a Tuesday
I am wondering much about graveyards in Heaven, can you die in the afterlife and where will you go then? Is Heinlein’s Job more factual than I always assumed??