the "your body is a temple" thing isn't actually figurative
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Does this mean Heaven will place on the TOP500?
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And what exactly is it computing?
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So does that mean the afterlife really is 'people live on in our memories'? And when will we get the implants that help us implement the afterlife with more fidelity?
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oh, yeah, for sure. "you're going to hell" literally means "we're going to talk shit about you when you're dead" not just coherent living memory, though, your memetic and hopefully genetic residue is meant to be a part of the godhead forever implants, i'd call it like 30 years
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My first thought was the Hyperion novels
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yeah, the silly thing about those is, why lock 'em up in caves where there'll be a big freakout if somebody finds them when you can just let 'em run around
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holy shit
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right? maybe Saul of Tarsus wasn't such a fucking successful theurge by accident
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On a related note, the early Christians, influenced as they were by the Greek skeptics, knew quite well that the soul wasn’t separable from the body, which is why the Bible is so insistent on bodily resurrection.
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A point that has been quite lost among ordinary believers in the past few hundred years, who are now quite attached to the idea of grandma floating around in the clouds and cheering on the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
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