# What you wish the afterlife would be like

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 30, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-wish-the-afterlife-would-be-like/677455 "2013-12-30T03:27:06Z")\
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Well I sure hope it’s not sticking around as a ghost, because the afterlife would be mighty crowded, probably mostly with babies and infants. That could really kill whatever enjoyment there is to be had as a non-corporeal being.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-wish-the-afterlife-would-be-like/677455/42 "2013-12-31T21:59:05Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> Why, what would putting your foot down achieve?

Maybe nothing. Maybe only the symbolic act itself. Maybe the cosmos would awaken to the magnitude of its injustice.

Maybe I’d just feel better having done it.

Show me a better way to be effective, and I’ll take it.

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**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-you-wish-the-afterlife-would-be-like/677455/43 "2014-01-01T05:20:10Z")

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> [@Disposable Hero](#):
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> …There is also the ‘simulation problem’ with your scenario, if the beings you have created to populate your new reality are functionally indistinguishable from real live sentient creatures don’t you have a duty of care towards them, after all they are _your_ creation.

My idea is based on the idea that maybe we are already inside one of those games… some intense suffering exists in our current reality (or at least according to the news) [but maybe like in the Dictator movie, his belief is that people are being executed when in fact they aren’t]  
The games I’m talking about aren’t necessarily run by perfectly loving beings - some people might be sadistic, like some players are in contemporary games. So perhaps hell exists in some of the games. BTW there are Christians who don’t think God is sadistic given he allows people to suffer eternally. They think it proves how glorious he is.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tzynfCuJRBY/hqdefault.jpg "The Glory of the Punishment?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzynfCuJRBY)

In games though fortunately hell wouldn’t last forever but the simulation could be run at a high clock speed so it still is nearly zillions of years.

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