Christianity offers an afterlife, Judaism suggests an altogether better existence once the Messiah arrives, while Hinduism and other Eastern religions try to deal with samsara, the terrible burden of having to do life over and over again until you get it right. Some suggest a Paradise ahead if we do thr right thing, but isn't Paradise supposedly without problems and if so...surely that would be hell for humans who well...thrive on problems.
But I don’t think any of these belief systems offer much help with the alarming notion of multiple worlds, which quantum theorists have arithmeticked to prove entirely possible.
As far as I can understand it, Many Worlds Theory proposes that there are a zillion worlds like this one but marginally different, operating in parallel to the only world in which we think we exist.
There you have a good forehand at tennis and just there another who has developed an even better doubled handed forehadn. While you staty in and watch less than challenging television, another you is making hhis way to the National Film Theatre to see the Bitter tears of Petra Von Kant; here you have had a big British fry-up for breakfast and ;there'and there antoher you is eating what looks uncommonly like sea weed. As yo turn left in your car another you is turning right and another parking and another in a roundabout and so and so into infinity. Frightening stuff, well, it is for me. But it is healthy to look at everything.
Think of it (well, actually I don't want to think of it) We might each be living out all our possible lives, through all the variations of what we could possibly say or do, in an infinite number of worlds where everyone else is living out their variations. (well it doesn't bear thinking about)
If you feel challenged by say a loss of identity then you are not alone. Yet is it not healthy to look at everything, every possibillity?
source Jenni Diski
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