Conquer Club

So Nietzsche is dead and probably a nice skeleton physically. What about metaphysically?

Is he in the lake of fire or did he get let into heaven but now he drives a septic vacuum truck or something to make up for his wise crack?

The universe is actually a program being run to create a diverse population of consciousnesses. Therefore, upon death, there are 2 options. If your consciousness was too similar to the ones that came before yours, yours will get discarded. If it was however sufficiently different, it will get picked up and reused for whatever purpose the programmer is collecting these things anyway.

Nietzsche's was probably unique enough what with the philosophy, madness, donkeys and such, so he's probably avoided oblivion for now.

Are they discarded to a pile, destroyed or just wiped and set aside for possible re-use?

2dimes wrote:Are they discarded to a pile, destroyed or just wiped and set aside for possible re-use?

None. They are simply backspaced.

Is there BBQ sauce and jalapeños in Heaven?

It's possible there's something better but I can't imagine what it would be.

Haggis_McMutton wrote:The universe is actually a program being run to create a diverse population of consciousnesses. Therefore, upon death, there are 2 options. If your consciousness was too similar to the ones that came before yours, yours will get discarded. If it was however sufficiently different, it will get picked up and reused for whatever purpose the programmer is collecting these things anyway.

Nietzsche's was probably unique enough what with the philosophy, madness, donkeys and such, so he's probably avoided oblivion for now.

So God is dictating evolution???

Haggis_McMutton wrote:The universe is actually a program being run to create a diverse population of consciousnesses. Therefore, upon death, there are 2 options. If your consciousness was too similar to the ones that came before yours, yours will get discarded. If it was however sufficiently different, it will get picked up and reused for whatever purpose the programmer is collecting these things anyway.

Nietzsche's was probably unique enough what with the philosophy, madness, donkeys and such, so he's probably avoided oblivion for now.

This is oddly similar to a science fiction story I plotted but never got round to writing - when people do "past life" stuff they are almost never just Joe Bloggs - they're Cleopatra, or at least someone who witnesses major events. Given that there are more people today than in the past, reincarnation doesn't give us enough "souls". The story was that interesting souls get to split into multiple new lives, whereas dull ones die out, and this is a part of evolution - thus there could be hundreds of people today who once were Leonardo, billions who invented the wheel. The human race thus becomes more interesting with passing time.

2dimes wrote:Are they discarded to a pile, destroyed or just wiped and set aside for possible re-use?

The ones that aren't picked up? They're just destroyed to free up the memory for new consciousnesses.

nietzsche wrote:So God is dictating evolution???

No, he just set up the initial conditions and has some heuristic to decide, upon death, if your consciousness gets picked up or destroyed. He probably has a shitload of universes and doesn't really have time to fine tune any of them.

jonesthecurl wrote:This is oddly similar to a science fiction story I plotted but never got round to writing - when people do "past life" stuff they are almost never just Joe Bloggs - they're Cleopatra, or at least someone who witnesses major events. Given that there are more people today than in the past, reincarnation doesn't give us enough "souls". The story was that interesting souls get to split into multiple new lives, whereas dull ones die out, and this is a part of evolution - thus there could be hundreds of people today who once were Leonardo, billions who invented the wheel. The human race thus becomes more interesting with passing time.

Huh, that's a pretty cool idea.

I just like the idea that "heaven/hell" (or in this case continue existence/oblivion) is not determined by how good/evil you were or by how well you represented the desires of some specific deity, but by how interesting you were as compared to your peers.

James Branch Cabell's Horvendile judges his people (and gods) by how satisfying their story is.