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[quote=Anonymous]I think just as there was no consciousness that was "me" before I was born, after I die there will no longer be a consciousness that is me.  My body will decompose / be cremated and that is that.

The very idea of a heaven where we all congregate after death just seems like such a man-made construct to me. Especially when you start thinking of some of the logistics.  So, do you hang out with your parents/friends/children?  And your parents hang out with their parents/friends/children, and your children hang out with their friends/children/grandchildren, and ad finitum until it gets to be quite crowded in terms of who's hanging out with whom.

And how far back do souls go, anyway?  When you look back into the origins and evolution of the genus Homo, when did the first of the species get a soul that got to go to heaven?  Did Neanderthals have souls?  If not, does that seem very fair to them?  So they just died and never got to have an afterlife?  Or did humans just start getting into heaven after Jesus?  That doesn't seem very fair, either, to all who came before him.

And what do souls do in heaven all day, anyway?

Did all the 12 fertilized embryos I had that didn't take have souls and are they going to be fully developed beings up in heaven?  Does that mean there are twice as many souls in heaven as have ever been on earth since at least half of all conceptions never make it to birth?  Seems even more crowded and insane.

Sorry, I know OP asked for short answers, but when you start thinking about these sorts of questions you realize the silliness of traditional ideas of a heaven where you, complete with all your memories and feelings, hang out with your loved ones and god for eternity.  I mean, what if you really didn't love your spouse and don't want to hang out with him?

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