...and who do you meet in the great beyond?
Alzheimers grandma? 20-yo grandma?
Are people who died as infants always infants?
Do people with cognitive disabilities keep their disability with them? If not, are they still who they were?
Is there a difference between someone born blind verses someone who could see and lost their eyesight in life? Do they both get equal vision in heaven?
And the one that kills it for me.
How could you ever be in a state of bliss, knowing that there are good people in hell?
Burning in 'conscious torment for eternity'.
People you knew, people you loved.
What kind of rat-bastard would you have to be to exist in a state of 'bliss' while you look down and see your grandmother, your best friend, or your child burning forever.
And if it is some magical hand wave that excuses this paradox, how is that 'you', then?
Magic and wishful dreams, that all it is, with no more substance than the tooth fairy or the green tiger-striped wickernacker, with purple boots covered in pink-polka dots and an ermine hat topped with one big silver tassel, I just conjured up in my imagination.
It's all pretend.