Post Death

    Of course I believe in a life after death. I would absolutely find life intolerable if there was nothing after death. No matter how much proof there is that there is nothing after death, I refuse to believe that. I would prefer there to be an afterlife in which you go into your own version of paradise, or heaven. I also believe that, if you really wanted to, you can choose to be reincarnated or become a spectral, but I would never want to do either of those things. I believe, when you die, it is your time to go into paradise. Why someone would choose to come back to this world is beyond me. When you are reincarnated, however, you could be anything. This could range from being a puny insect to a mighty lion, or a poor person in India to the King of Spain. It doesn't matter what you do in your current life, you are just going to be randomly assigned a life. This also could be in anytime period, whether it is prehistoric, medieval, current day, or a million years in the future. There is no telling what your next life could be like. If you choose to be a ghost, your spirit basically stays on earth, yet you can go in and out of heaven whenever you may please. People who choose to go to heaven also have this choice of going into the world. In anyway, your life stays permanent, so your actions could have lasting effects on peoples memories.
     Anyways, if someone chooses heaven, they design how it should be like. Heaven is pretty much your ideal life; one without stress, worry, or woes but purely how you want it to be. In my own distinct version, I would like to be a part of a bountiful universe in which (showing my history nerd side) all civilizations of the world could be present at once (i.e. Assyrians, Romans, medieval France, Aztecs, Prussia, Iroquois, Indian culture in 1800's, etc.). I would like them to interact with one another and be able to befriend one another as well. I would like to live in a city of that universe with the buildings having the unique architectural styles the world has experienced. I would like there to be some conflict, stress, and worry though. I feel as though without it, life would be plain and boring. Though the world is anything you want it to be, there is a price. No one you once knew will be there, causing a feeling of emptiness. In order to meet with other dead people, you must meet each other as ghosts on earth.
     Though as complex and unique my ideal life after death may be, I cant say that these were completely mine.  To me, they seem to bear traces of Christian beliefs due to being raised by parents who "drugged" me into going to church everyday. Because of being forced to participate in church, I have rejected the idea of a higher power yet still held the idea of a life after death. Now, my beliefs shape my life in a dramatic way. I don't be good because some other power tells me to be good, but rather because I feel like being good. I don't really determine my actions due to what some other power think is right, but because I have decided that it is right. Due to my rejection of god, I have not only become a more untamable and care-free person, but I also became more independent and ethical because I choose to be and no higher power is threatening me to be by trying to take away my ideal afterlife. That is how I view my afterlife and how I am affected by my idea.