Spiderpig wrote:
So what?s the difference between that and just plain staying dead? The only thing I understand is that you insist on labelling the lack of desire as ?freedom?, even specifying there?s no motivation for change. This is basically the definition of death to me: you feel nothing, you need nothing, you want nothing, you do nothing, because you no longer exist. If Heaven is meant to be a reward, I can think of much better alternatives, but they are based on what you call ?constraints?. I don?t believe in the concept of being a slave to oneself?to me, that is the very definition of freedom, and I have no use for a ?freedom? which excludes doing anything with it. If that?s the point, you might as well be bound, or, you know, dead.
Conscious awareness stops with death so there's one big difference. Other big difference is that the idea of heaven is to exist in a state of perpetual bliss without the flux of biological life.
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