Ted Rall for May 14, 2012

The Afterlife Cocktail Party: way better than Heaven…

I’m going to be contraversial now, If a child commits suicide because he can’t live with being abused by a priest, does he go to “hell” and the priest go to “heaven”?

Where’s the guy whose last words were “Hey, hold my beer and watch this.” ?

Heaven wouldn’t have beer or tobacco.

It’s a CARTOON. Theological implications are really not the point…

There is no afterlife for the conscious mind. The only afterlife is genetic code being passed along in the bodies of our children. Nonetheless, this is an awesomely funny joke.

The doctrine of several churches , most notably the Roman Catholic, views suicide as a sin, but I find no reference to it in the Bible. Of course, there are MANY things I can’t find in the Bible that the RC regards as sin, things like birth control, not accepting everything the Pope says as 100% true, not viewing…well, you get the idea.

a “just deity”? Therein lies the problem.

I don’t believe the cartoon has anything to say about theology but is a comment about psychology, technology, and the general weirdness of people who want to be “wired” and “connected” around the clock. Count me out.

Most of the thought against suicide comes from someone owning another, and suicide is damaging their property.

Everyone is trying to get to the barThe name of the barThe bar is called Heaven.

“Next” life offers more opportunity than “after”. But many having this one don’t want to consider their “consequences”.

Interesting that the after-lifer brings his/her clothes and apparatus to the afterlife. What’s more, afterlife would be miserable for most if one has the body at time of death. Too many infants and decrepit oldies.

Don’t feed the trolls….

No beer, but plenty of spirits.

HA!

“In heaven there is no beer.That’s why we drink it here.And when we are gone from here,Then our friends will be drinking all the beer.”

T. Rall, thanks for the perspective and the satire but the factual truth about all your dead guys is this; after death if ones words, deeds and actions are not passed on by word of mouth, written down and read by others, or posted on the internet, what one has done in life disappears form the face of the earth, there life’s worth and information is lost to eternity. Heaven, hell, and a life in the ’hereafter" is but a myth. All that remains of a one’s life and all that is retained and passed on are what the little grey cells of living person choses to retain of a dead persons words, deeds, and actions. A dead person is naught but matter that had been arranged in a higher order that allowed for chemical and electro-magnetic reactions, as directed by and for DNA so that it (DNA) might survive before the body that it (DNA) created and used ceases to live and is recycled by Mother Nature.

Voyeurism taken to extremes. And it’s already happening.

^Yay! I like that!It makes me immortal!