Purgatory Queue

[左Frogggi]

When your soul finally leaves it's vessel, are you immediately reincarnated as the next life? Or is there a waiting period? I imagine purgatory as a long long line of souls wrapping around the Stop-n-Go building waiting to be filed through. It's a funny idea. But where do the souls go? Can you be reincarnated as a non-living thing? Maybe as punishment for a life spent being evil.

I don't wish for an afterlife. If I deny it's existence, surely my own ideas will come into being. At least, that's how it seems to work for many other religions.

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Not a believer in traditional abrahamic or eastern holy judgment, although I do think that our past actions can define our future fate (both before and beyond death) in a sort of karmic way by nature of this universe itself. As for reincarnation... I tend to think it's subjectively immediate - at least if there's really no way for non-living objects to somehow perceive the flow of time (should one happen to be incarnated as one, or just while decomposing). If inanimate objects are somehow sentient in their own way, and we can reincarnate into them (which I think is entirely possible), then it's probably objectively immediate too, I don't see why not. The question of soul remains unanswered for me though, and I do suspect that some form of inanimate or supernatural life is actually present, even if the proof is still yet to be found. Assuming the incarnation is delayed or does not exist... -or- if we can reincarnate into something not of this earth - whether as a transitory or permanent state, I would like to imagine afterlife as most peculiar form of wanderlust full of experiences that are beyond any mortal reasoning. That would certainly rock. I've heard the idea that the very last thought we had before death can define our whole new existence - sounds possible to me, if capricious and largely unattractive. But I'd like to think that our thoughts do not decay or turn static - our psyche transcends both of these concepts into something entirely new and unexplored, and the world we move on into is defined by our vision of reality that we formed during lifetime.

Our faith and our ideas ultimately decide who we are. This law of existence is very subtle and easily forgotten, but that's only in this world, during our mortal existence - so who knows, maybe it is indeed the moment of death that makes our beliefs manifest themselves as our new worlds.

Also it could very well be that we are in fact in Purgatory right now! Though with every minute it's starting to look more and more like Hell Juust kidding (hopefully...)!