Bokononism

[Karen Wingoof]

I'm pretty sure that on top of everything else, I am a Bokononist, too. Yeah. YOU try being a non-religious Christian Scientist Humoristian Bokononist. I am so confused....

[aardwizz]

Bokononism - check.  It's the only sensible view on religion.

Humoristian  - check.  It's the only sensible view on life.  Nothing should be so important that we can't laugh at it.

Christian Scientist - ya got me on that one.  I don't know enough about it to say whether I am or not.  The few CS'ers I've know  have all been truly lovely people with an inner light (present company included), so I'm genuinely curious.  Feel free to explain what CS means to you (which may or may not jibe with what  ‎Mary Baker Eddy said it is.  And that's OK, EVERY religion is personal....

Non-religious - maybe.  I think of myself more as pan-religious.  I've come to the conclusion that God is capable, if He so chooses, to have a world in which EVERYONE is right about Him, the Afterlife, and so on. 

- Believe that when you're dead you're gone? So Be It.  

- Believe that you'll reincarnate?  So Be It.  

- Believe that you are going to some celestial paradise?  So Be It. 

- Believe in a literal Hell, and have a list of people that you want to see there?  So Be It.  From your perspective, that's what you'll see.  The person supposedly in that Hell may not see the world that way, however.

Call it "pantheistic multi-person solipsism" (a phrase stolen from Heinlein).  No, it doesn't make sense.  But it's no more nonsensical than any other religion....

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[Karen Wingoof]

Aardwizzz, I really like your post here. Thought-provoking. I remember one time, years ago, a friend and I were on a hike, watching a butterfly flitting around in the wildflowers - and for some reason i cannot remember now, that led us to talk about the after-life and she said something really similar to what you said - something like "What if we get exactly what we expect when we die?" (She had just said that she believed we all just turn to dust when we die, and I pointed this out to her - and she started cracking up).