Enjoy your mythology. I prefer my imaginary afterlife to be interpreted literally.

It depends. Some sects believe in the concept of "particular judgment" -- you are judged and go to heaven (or hell, or Detroit) immediately upon death (I think Catholics believe this). Other sects believe in the doctrine of "last judgement" where all the dead are put on hold until the end of the world, and then judged en mass. There is, as usual, conflicting Biblical passages on this point.

What reality takes precedence in heaven? My view of my grandmother or her own view? Or is heaven a bubble of reality for what each individual wishes most?

Depends what you believe but many think of the concept of heaven not as a place where you see your dead family and pets, but more of a state of being including oneness with God. Sort of like nirvana. Or the Nexus if you're a Star Trek fan.

This looks like some jehovahs witness "art."

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.

Isn't it a little tortuous to send children to heaven as children. Even if just a spirit, the appearance and mind of a child feels a little Kirsten Dunst in interview with a vampire. Same with the old. Who wants to go to heaven as an old man or woman?

Most conceptions of heaven kinda feel like hell. This picture scares the hell out of me.

I'm more concerned about the tombstones shown in the panting in heaven. like what happened to THOSE people? are they Super Dead?

yeah how the fuck does relativity work in heaven? I agree with you, if I died as a kid that would stuck for all of eternity to just be a kid.

The Nexus, being a destructive addiction, seems to me more of an analogy to heavy drug use than a happy afterlife.

I am wondering much about graveyards in Heaven, can you die in the afterlife and where will you go then? Is Heinlein’s Job more factual than I always assumed??

My family took a novel approach to it. Everyone gets judged when they die, but only the worst go to hell, and the best go to heaven. The rest wait around until the rapture and then there is Judgement 2: Judgement Day where all the people that were waiting around get judged against all the new people, and then they are split based on some kind of holy bell curve. It was really just a lot of bullshit to get around my family being full of drug addicts and racists and no one wanting to admit that if they go by the Bible they are hellbound.

It’s been years since I’ve read Job. What was the part you’re referring to?

I just remember him being a dishwasher, since that skill travels easily and everyone has dirty dishes.

lots of diversity: check
no interracial couples or evidence of them despite lots of diversity: check
heaven is a physical place where you keep your body and there's flowers and columns and shit: check
80s romance novel cover horny painting art style: check

I'm pretty sure JWs believe that heaven is like IRL and simply do not ask the obvious follow up questions because they are a cult

To be fair there's nothing really wrong with the Nexus as long as you're not destroying a planet with a pre-warp civilization to get there.

at least it's not ai slop

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Measles. Thanks RFK Jr.

No women in pants: check

They think that 144,000 anointed ones go to heaven, good JWs stay on a perfected form of Earth, everyone else is completely destroyed.

Anakin

That's a lot less dark than i was expecting.

Those are for the living, waiting to rise up.

This picture is from a Jehovah's Witness publication. This isn't a depiction of heaven, but rather a future paradise earth. And the picture depicts various people being redirected back to life.

No clothing diversity

The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.

There's probably multiple. Or at least there's multiple interpretations of it.

I remember reading that bit.

But even if that's the actual version, this painting just assumes you down near the people you're wanting to see. Even though those groups would likely have mutually exclusive members? Does everybody get split into though copies to be everywhere they need to be at once?

There's so much unanswered lore specifics. Revelation was the first part I stopped believing in.

It just seems like whoever wrote it (I think it's supposed to be John, but those people still think Moses was a real person, so who knows) had dropped too much acid like 10 hours before and was having a really bad comedown phase. None of it is coherent at all.

And the fact that Trump is by far the closest any human has come to being the actual antichrist while they all just follow blindly is the most depressing humor around.

Any other tiny sleight they will call out preemptively (thinking of late 90s/early 00s satanic panic stuff, like Pokémon is evil because it's made by a company called Wizards of the Coast, and they also make a game called Magic!), but actual Hitler Jr? Nah, they love him to death.

I really don't want to think of the implications of there being grave stones in Heaven.

Statistically, if there's an afterlife, there's billions of babies and fetuses in it.

When you reunite with your kids in heaven because their mom went crazy and drive the minivan into a lake with the kids inside.

Why are they in a fucking cemetery?! What the fuck is going on up there?

Shit, I've see this painting in person multiple times. I think it's in one of the Manhattan museums. And I never asked any of this.

Well, there's also an apocalypse, right?

jedis arnt human though, so they dont have a christian equivalent heaven. maybe there is a force version of heaven.

sometimes they do some clothing diversity to indicate country of origin

So the entirety of the force ghost thing didnt happen, yeah?

Holy moly bell curve.

What makes me sad about heaven is that there must be a cutoff in the monkey -> human evolution chain. What happened to the very first human that met that cutoff? They'll be in heaven but their parents are too monkey and didn't make it :(

I don't think God discriminates against monkeys

I saw this picture and it immediately gave me flashbacks to JW flyers

Israel.

Good. Good.

I thought only humans went to heaven. It's a real can of worms otherwise. Do worms go to heaven? Mosquitos? Bacteria? Viruses?

If you believe evolution is real, you'll obviously never go to heaven, so you'll never find out.

American needed another distraction for their pedo kings