so here's the thing that is not going away, not so much by me but by some of the people I know. So if I die and get sent to this nebulous world called the afterlife - what am I? Do all the strange variables I experienced on earth that led to disappointment and confusion just magically disappear? Just two issues to call out alone. Everything that was not only my lived experience but my lived understanding on earth doesn't even rate as a footnote.
a few hypothetical scenarios. After settling in, the bully from primary school who made my life a living hell on earth is here. The control freak who I went out with in my twenties - she is here too. The priest who molested one of your friends is here because he confessed - he asked for forgiveness and was subsequently forgiven. Then the news - we should expect your ex-wife who you divorced a decade ago is arriving sometime next week. So am I going to get the same shit here from her that I experienced on earth?
the more I think about it, as far as the invention of this mythical place, I get the feeling that someone didn't think the very idea of this through. Plus can I get an indication of the ones that didn't make it here? I am already having more than enough stress based on the ones that did - who I used to know. I get that if being a nagging, arrogant and intolerant pain in the ass was declared a sin this place would be empty.
maybe the biggest question is what is my purpose here? I get that you invented this place as a method of countering the difficulties of a life lived more than two thousand years ago but a lot has happened since then. Maybe now, this is the place where the cult really begins.
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