You die and to your surprise things don’t go like you thought they would. Instead of nothingness or judgement or whatever you’re standing with someone who gives you the following options.
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[li]Oblivion. Your soul will be erased and that’s that.[/li][li]Eternal paradise. You will be in a world you can control, or make random, or whatever. And if it starts getting dull you can change it.[/li][li]Reincarnation. You can chose gender, skin color, nationality, and whether you get born to a poor, middle class, or wealthy family.[/li][li]Nirvana (the Hindu or Buddhist version, not the band.):D[/li][/ol]
What would you chose? I would chose #2.
Paradise. I don’t want oblivion if there’s a reasonable option, nirvana (at least as I’ve heard it described) has never interested me, and as I’ve mentioned before I regard reincarnation as just oblivion by another name.
Of course paradise, under your rules. Who wouldn’t? But I don’t want to be praising God or some such thing for eternity, that sounds icky and boring. I’d want to have a great afterlife.
Oh, and FYI, it’s moksha for the Hindus. Just doing my part.
Simply because I just replied in a “Wizard of Id” thread and that was on my mind, this issue reminds me of my all-time WOI strip:
Spook is being held by two guards in the corridor of some prison and is told, “Spook, behind one of these doors is a beautiful young maiden and behind the other is a starving tiger that hasn’t eaten in two weeks. Which door do you take?”
Why would anyone choose oblivion over paradise? I can only guess that it comes from living a life that sucked so bad that you can’t believe even paradise would be pleasant for you.
Nirvana, obviously. Unfortunately, I’m nowhere near ready for that yet. I need at least a few more playthroughs. My only ambition for this one by now is to maybe, *maybe *do well enough to get another human form and not be reincarnated as a rat.
