my personal favorite afterlife is from "what dreams may come". Basically,you go to this perfect world based on the things you loved in life, you can gain all the knowledge you want, you can visit other people's heavens, you can reincarnate if you choose, and if you go to hell, as long as someone cares enough to rescue you, you aren't doomed to it.
The worst afterlife would be being stuck in your dead body and being aware of the pain as maggots eat at your body and your molecules dissolve into the earth and into other creatures and being away that you are many and one all at once.
So after the delightful experience of being prodded with a tong while being roasted in a blast furnace, would you rather spend your indefinitude chilling in an urn, or being spread over the sea and sinking to the bottom?
When presented with the idea that in the afterlife he would spend eternity with his family, Stephen Fry asked; "And what do you get if you have been good?".
The best afterlife I've seen was in the manga Read or Dream. You end up in a massive library with every book ever written and all you do is wander the halls reading.
Nicholas M There were actually conditions to get in. You had to finish the books you borrowed from that library by a certain time, in a certain way, and if you didn't, you wouldn't get in. So if you were illiterate you wouldn't even try to borrow the books.
I heard of a hindu version of heaven from an indian guy once it was pretty sweet. He believed that if you lived a life without sin but never reached enlightenment before you died ,you go to an afterlife kinda similar to christian heaven a paradise where you get everything you ever wanted. You could stay there until you spend so much time there you forgot who you were in life at that point you reincarnate and get an other shot at enlightenment. Seems less boring then christian heaven because even if you can get everything you ever want you'll get bored after a few 1000 years. Any ways I'm European so like all Europeans I believe Heaven is where the police are British The chefs are Italian The cars are German The lovers are French and the whole place is organized by the Swiss Hell is where the police are German The chefs are British The cars are French The lovers are Swiss and the whole place is organized by the Italians
Shiva Richmond I want Italian cars in my heaven. Bugatti/Ferrari/Lamborghini >>>>> Mercedes/BMW. Like, a lot. French chefs aren't too shabby, either. Idk where that leaves the Germans, we can find another job for them, lol.
Shiva Richmond Lol, I'm a chick, just going on looks. In heaven, I'm assuming we won't have all those issues, cuz...heaven. But I appreciate your input, if I ever hit the lottery, I'll remember this info and buy German! I like Maybach, the interiors are unreal. Are they a pos, too?
OGSpaceCadet Maybe true heaven would be italian design, american engine build by german engineers. As for your Maybach question, if you have money to burn go for it. You'll find a whole new world of comfort. I personally only own classic cars and what I have learned is that if you want a classic that works and that stays working buy American or German.
Shiva Richmond I like the classic American cars too. My high school boyfriend (from the 90s, not the 50s, lol) had a 57 Chevy, 2 door hardtop, sport coupe--that always cracked me up since it was a tank. It had a lot of original mechanical stuff, but some restoration too, black with new black interior. Every time we drove it on a date, someone in the restaurant would ask him if it was for sale, lol! It was pretty sweet, fun to cruise in. I've got a cousin that rebuilds from the frame up, everything from a 55 Chevy, cherry red, to an old Ford stepside truck, a 20s roadster, and last I heard was another 55, I think, aqua blue, 😊. He starts with them totally trashed and turns them into beauties, just as a hobby, he's not a car guy by trade. He just has a shop at his house he's built over the years. It's fun, they definitely don't make them like that anymore, sadly.
Just realized, Casper crosses over with the Ghostbusters. Dan Aykroyd shows up not being able to destroy Stretch, Fatso, and Stinky. so the Ghostbusters afterlife IS the Casper afterlife.
What if your death was like a modern video game death where you can open a previous save file BUT you only get a save file anytime you think "save". So remember guys whenever when you feel like something bad is going to happen, think "save".
But if you "save" right before you think something bad is about to happen, then you're just caught in a loop where the bad thing keeps happening. "Save" occasionally, if something bad happens make better life choices from your last save file.
Robin Williams "What dreams may come." the movie kind blew but what an awesome idea for an after life everyone gets to build their own world and then visit other peoples world can even have peter pan style adventures in Hell and when all that gets dull be born again
3:38 The problem with "becoming a digital consciousness" is that your consciousness would be *copied* into another form. THAT "you" might be effectively immortal, but the original "you" will still exist and then die, never _really_ knowing whether the other "you" is identical to you and resenting that the other "you" will stay alive while the original "you" will still have to experience death (whatever that is).
I think that any afterlife without any problems would be suuuuper boring, since you can get whatever you want, but then you have nothing to do. Forever. You could make a fake challenge, but you would basically be like I'm gonna miss this time. I'm gonna miss this time. I'm gonna hit this time. Like I'd assume you'd be perfect at everything so you would have to fake being bad.
when people go to heaven, God will remove any ill feelings we have and every day in heaven is a life of pleasure, so you will feel content always and not feel bored.
As a lucid dreamer, I can say that there are levels of control that get boring, but if you can create a randomized universe, or a place with it's "dreamlike" elements still persisting in some ways. Also, Christian afterlife is a new earth with work that you enjoy and people that you love and all bad feelings and things similar. It isn't extremely defined, but it is obvious that people will be happy there and happy with their works.
The Japanese film After Life from 1998. IMDB describes it - "After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows."
Swaim's hat is from Back to the Future and symbolic of enlightenment of the third eye through a rainbow bridge. It makes sense he'd bring up the singularity.
I think the 'Beetlejuice' option ( hilarious, goulish with powers only limited by your imagination and Michael Keton in his prime), or 'What Dreams May Come' (you live/with in the place, person, painting or time that brought you the most joy while you were still alive)
There are two shows that came to mind while I watched this: - American Dad, specifically the rapture episode, where anyone who can be considered good gets sent to their own personal heaven and the American Dad version of God is pretty cool, though I think that was a different episode - Then there's an anime I recently start watching, RE:Zero, where the protagonist returns to a 'save point' after dying; it'd be kind of cool for the first few times but as you keep going sooner or later the stress, horrors and apparent meaninglessness of your actions would cause a mental breakdown as you continuously respawn
Ramis actually said (regarding the Groundhog Day loop) "I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years." I think Danny Rubin who wrote it thought of a lot longer time than that.
That guy saying "robot" like 10 times with 2 min, sounds like the guy from the Chris stuckmann clip of a Prometheus panel where an audience members says "Robot" exactly the same way and about as many times. Check out Stuckmann's Prometheus explained video.
I dont know if its the worst, but the most interesting afterlife Ive seen in fiction is shown in the 3rd season of a sci-fantasy show called Lexx(for all who wish to see the show, I am now giving you a spoiler alert. You have been warned) Heaven and Hell are depicted as two planets that orbit each other, one of them covered in ocean(called Water, standing in for heaven), the other one covered in desert(called Fire, standing in for hell), whose atmospheres are connected through a kind of air column which enables air transportation between the planets. Water is dotted with cities themed around hobbies(in the show we see cities themed around sports, gardening and feasting), and Fire has tower cities filled with slave labour whose job it is to man the pumps that make the air breathable, barely. Fire is lead by two opposing figures, called Prince and Duke, and has balloons at its disposal, which its inhabitants use to carry out raids on cities from Water. After a string of successes, the followers of either Prince or Duke plot to take over the rest of their planet, get stopped by their opposition, and then their opposition gets to raid, and so on and so forth. People die, a lot, lots of property damage occurs, but it always eventually gets fixed and people get resurrected, with only Prince and Duke knowing what happened before their resurrections. If you die, you either live blissfully in Heaven until some inhabitants of Hell kill you, only to be merrily resurrected and be none the wiser, or you become a pawn in the power play of one of two devil figures, both of whom are aware of how repetitve and pointless this power play is, if youre lucky and arent forced to slave away doing something even more repetitive and pointless.
so glad Dan set the girl straight on Lost. Amazing how many people failed to grasp that ending. It was spelled out so simply. Clearly they just werent paying attention, or didn't actually even watch the show and just claim to.
Obscure sci-fi show reference. Lexx- late in the series, the cast of the show wind up on a pair of planets. Through the course of the arc, we find out these planets (named Fire and Water) are actually heaven and hell analogs. The crew end up destroying the two planets, sending the residents of both planets back to earth, and the show burns out it's final season there. it was a fun show until they hit that arc. Moderately ridiculous with just enough sincerity to make it watchable. and the comic relief comes in some hilariously uncommon ways
I remember reading Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse" and Death goes to collect a soul, and instead of going to the afterlife, it disintegrates, so that person doesn't exist anymore. That's what I want for me.
+Alexander Cherry I just find mortality extremely terrifying. I myself am an atheist. I believe that there is no afterlife and the idea of not being able to have experiences anymore or feel joy or anger or envy. Life may be hard and uncaring, but i enjoy it.
I think the idea in that book is you go to whatever afterlife you believe in, so the reason the guy disintegrates is that he's an atheist and doesn't believe in any afterlife.
i would hate the norse mythology afterlife, which is that if you die a hero with a weapon in hand and you get chosen by ether Odin or Freya you go to Folkvang or Valhalla where you get to fight eternally and die every day until the end of the world when you'll battle in the Ragnarök
The thing is, that's meant to be a heaven of sorts where you engage in a friendly battle royale every day, afterwards you help each other put all your limbs back on properly (I think the fighting doesn't hurt as much as on Earth?) and all go to dinner together and have some awesome mutton chops and beer. It sounds pretty fun actually, if the battles don't hurt.
I've always wondered about in the case of reincarnation the likeliness of having any of your previous life's memories unless you weren't truly brain-dead when you died. As an epileptic I've experienced memory loss so in many afterlives you'd be a new person... note - Memory loss and amnesia are not the same (memory loss doesn't just come back).
Moore's Law refers to "...the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Moore's law predicts that this trend will continue into the foreseeable future." Nit = Picked.
I love the idea that the entire Batman universe is inside the mind of a traumatised ten year old boy who is sitting in a hospital beside the beds of his parents' who were shot during a mugging gone wrong!
I like the Bill and Ted afterlife, if you go to heaven you get to hang out with all the coolest people in history, and if you go to hell you still get to make out with grandma :)
lol omg, the bit about spending eternity with those you die with made me laugh. i said that to the guy sitting next to me when we were on a route recon in an old huey wide body that was being piloted by someone i still maintain was suicidal but figured a helo crash wasn't "technically suicide", only then i lamented that i was sitting next to him and not the hot female medic lol. i still laugh about that, but it's entirely likely I'm easily amused
As Dreams May Come has hands down the best afterlife: it's designed after your personal taste and you can alter every aspect of it like a mini-god. Everyone has his own and then there are common areas where you can socialize.
I always thought the lion King afterlife was like karate. You start as the lowest belt, die, become a higher belt and who you become lion you're now a black belt
Angel Beats! Bam, I just won. There's three possibilites of life there and all lead to the best end: -you overcome your regrets in life and are reborn(good memories can shape your fate in the next life to be similarly good), if you don't have regrets, autorespawn -you live the part of your life that you had regrets in normally, happy; reborn after that -you try to be stupid and defy all that, can do whatever you want, create anything you know and eventually end up on one of the other two paths No matter how shitty your life was, you can make up for it until you're happy or just get a free doover, whatever comes more naturally to you.
I respectfully disagree. You have to fight zombies and get possessed by evil creatures. Have you seen Haibane Renmei? I think that's a good option. It's a show with a slightly similar premise.
Jennifer Snodgrass That's just the security system making sure that you don't get sidetracked for too long. As I said, eventually you end up either overcoming your regrets or just living the part you regretted happily.
+ArkiosRokuyon yeah it's the defense mechanism, but if you wanted to stay that's something you would have to constantly deal with. Also idk why people like the idea of being reborn so much since I feel like most existential fear comes from losing yourself/loved ones. Angel beats is really unclear too. Did the pink haired girl end up with Hideaki Hinata in her next life? Was that a flashback or was it just imaginary? The mechanics are blurry
Being able to transfer yourself into a digital self would just be the same as having an immortal twin. You'd see it continue a rewarding life with your values, as you still perish in time.
Worst has to be video games with the save system. Imagine the instant you died, your body and consciousness was immediately put back to wherever you last saved your game, but you still remember everything that just happened. It'd be like having premonitions of the future, and changing said future because you learned from the mistakes. You're basically living life as Raven Symone from that Disney show That's So Raven. Or if you're a super burn out like me, then instead of being placed just a few moments outside of where you died, you're instead set back a day or two, because the only times you save the game are when you're going to stop playing. At that point, life becomes so depressing from thinking about how much time you have to put into listening to whoever monologue forever about something, going to all these different places to accomplish a simple task, and going through every nook and cranny to find anything useful to you. Life just becomes tedious and monotonous at that point.
I think that hell is not fire and pitchforks. I think that it's your personal worst fear like whatever you're afraid of the most, like if you're afraid of being forgotten then you're family and all your friends don't remember you
You become aware that you have been retelling your own life story to a demon and as the last moment of your life is told, he says " a good story; can i hear another?" You start with: " In the beginning it was dark..."
Can someone source the claim Swaim made about Babylonian religeon being intended as satirical? I can't find any related info on that, but I want it to be true. @ 19:38
Dead like me afterlife is the best one. Not only do you get human contact before you die but you get to go to your specific heaven (when your ready of course) or you become a reaper and eat pancakes forever.
There's a YA novel called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin that I liked when I was in middle school or so. You die and then they take your soul(? I guess?) on a boat to Elsewhere where you live and age in reverse before being sent down a river as a baby and being sort of reincarnated. I liked the idea of getting to live on with your memories for a while longer but not for all of eternity (because wow that just sounds boring) and they could look down on Earth and see the people they left behind and stuff.
Hey cracked been a fan for years I just wanted to ask how does it feel to continue the legacies of a comedy site that is one of the longest running in America's history? please let me know what your thoughts are on this matter.
Groundhog Day probably follows the Nietzschean concept of the eternal return of the same (Ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen). the main argument is that you should live life in a way that if you were doomed to repeat your life endlessly you'd still make those choices.
People always seem to overlook the afterlife of the last Narnia book, which is super Narnia. It has been a while since I read it but as far as I remember it is Narnia but with things from our world and just generally better and bigger.
I think that the afterlife in the books Everlost would either be really cool if you could be one of the kids to posses people or lead an army. Or it would be really shitty because you're be stuck with a bunch of teenagers forever, could possibly sink to the core of the earth and can't interact with modern things
I think if there's an afterlife that's eternal then I think with angels and people who go to heaven, you lose your sense of boredom, so you can stare at a wall for eons and still be contented. But demons and those who go to hell don't lose their sense of boredom, so they are tormented with having to wait out eternity. This is why demons "possess" people, because being able to exist from another person's perspective would be a novel experience, and when you're immortal and bored, novel experiences are priceless.
3:50 the singularity, uploading your consciousness onto a "floppy disk" would make you immortal. It's the same as the Star Trek transporter problem. It's just a copy of you, a new being that thinks ta you.
that sounds awful. you are dead and your consciousness is looking back and seeing this fake synthetic copy of you. and your synthetic has to try to live knowing it has no soul, that its just a cheap copy with someone elses memories and will be trapped in the same reality forever until the sun goes supernova. no meaning. no purpose. a literal hell.
I want to learn more about the ancient Babylonians''satirical afterlife. 5 minutes on google didn't help me. Someone help! I want to know more, but the 'Do you want to know more' thing didn't pop up.
My dad is insanely Christian and he seemingly knows literally everything about the Bible. He describes heaven based on the Bible as just literally perfect, it's whatever you want. Idk how you could make an after life better than that.
in defense of Twilight (and yes, typing that hurt), they did make a point of saying that the vampires dont mentally age past however old they were when they were bitten. if you bite a five year old, they could live a thousand years, but mentally they would still be a five year old. at least, the book said this; its like half the plot of the last book/movie
The scariest bit of most of American Christian versions of the afterlife is that your personality gets rewritten. Who could be happy as they are now, knowing you are in paradise and some of the people you care about are suffering infinite torture for infinite time. Either there is no hell, everyone gets turned into a psychopath entering heaven, or you have to be a psychopath to get to heaven.
Well if your memory is erased then you're basically a baby, and your personality that led you to be Christian wouldnt be there so what was the point of the reward.
hell is a fantasy ripped straight from the book Dantes Inferno in the 14th century, there is not one single passage in the hebrew bible that mentions "hell" anywhere. the Hebrew translation for "Sheol" means "the Grave", or resting place. True hell is when you punish yourself and feel guilty consumed with regret and loss about mistakes you made in your life, hell is when you base your personality off something material, and when it all fades away and turns to dust you are left with nothing. The point the writers were trying to make is to ground yourself in something real and grow and evolve as a better human rather than let riches and fame and beauty and the latest gadgets consume your life to the point you are a shallow, self absorbed person.
The worst afterlife would be being a ghost stuck to Earth during a zombie apocalipse. Just think about watching your body stumbling around and eating other peoples brains.
The number of people who think they're getting into Heaven is greater than the number of people we think will actually make it to Heaven. That is a beautiful statistic.
Worst movie after life: Sixth Sense You need to live the same town as the only KID in the state who can see and talk to ghosts if you have some unfinished business but pretty much terrorize him until he gives into avenging you.
Picking up the mic to nod. That was god damn amazing.
I hope that was on purpose so much.
I was amazed by that joke. Whole new level of genius.
+John Abbatiello I'm sure it was, he's a comedian. And yeah I agree that was frickin perfect.
*nods*
A time stamp for the impatient?
my personal favorite afterlife is from "what dreams may come". Basically,you go to this perfect world based on the things you loved in life, you can gain all the knowledge you want, you can visit other people's heavens, you can reincarnate if you choose, and if you go to hell, as long as someone cares enough to rescue you, you aren't doomed to it.
The worst afterlife would be being stuck in your dead body and being aware of the pain as maggots eat at your body and your molecules dissolve into the earth and into other creatures and being away that you are many and one all at once.
That's....awful.....
Imagine being cremated
Well I mean once you're ashes it's not going to hurt too much. Just hope a cat doesn't defecate in you...
reminds me of doctor who
So after the delightful experience of being prodded with a tong while being roasted in a blast furnace, would you rather spend your indefinitude chilling in an urn, or being spread over the sea and sinking to the bottom?
When presented with the idea that in the afterlife he would spend eternity with his family, Stephen Fry asked; "And what do you get if you have been good?".
for some reason I read Stephen Fry as Phillip J. Fry.
SAME
The best afterlife I've seen was in the manga Read or Dream. You end up in a massive library with every book ever written and all you do is wander the halls reading.
But what if you are illiterate?
+Nicholas M
Oh that would be sad...
Nicholas M There were actually conditions to get in. You had to finish the books you borrowed from that library by a certain time, in a certain way, and if you didn't, you wouldn't get in. So if you were illiterate you wouldn't even try to borrow the books.
"But there was time enough at last ... " Beware the Rod Serling afterlife.
I like to read
I heard of a hindu version of heaven from an indian guy once it was pretty sweet. He believed that if you lived a life without sin but never reached enlightenment before you died ,you go to an afterlife kinda similar to christian heaven a paradise where you get everything you ever wanted. You could stay there until you spend so much time there you forgot who you were in life at that point you reincarnate and get an other shot at enlightenment. Seems less boring then christian heaven because even if you can get everything you ever want you'll get bored after a few 1000 years.
Any ways I'm European so like all Europeans I believe
Heaven is where the police are British
The chefs are Italian
The cars are German
The lovers are French
and the whole place is organized by the Swiss
Hell is where the police are German
The chefs are British
The cars are French
The lovers are Swiss
and the whole place is organized by the Italians
the chef's are Hispanic
the lovers are Hispanic
there's no need for police or organization
cars are whatever you envision.
Shiva Richmond I want Italian cars in my heaven. Bugatti/Ferrari/Lamborghini >>>>> Mercedes/BMW. Like, a lot. French chefs aren't too shabby, either. Idk where that leaves the Germans, we can find another job for them, lol.
Shiva Richmond Lol, I'm a chick, just going on looks. In heaven, I'm assuming we won't have all those issues, cuz...heaven. But I appreciate your input, if I ever hit the lottery, I'll remember this info and buy German! I like Maybach, the interiors are unreal. Are they a pos, too?
OGSpaceCadet
Maybe true heaven would be italian design, american engine build by german engineers.
As for your Maybach question, if you have money to burn go for it. You'll find a whole new world of comfort. I personally only own classic cars and what I have learned is that if you want a classic that works and that stays working buy American or German.
Shiva Richmond I like the classic American cars too. My high school boyfriend (from the 90s, not the 50s, lol) had a 57 Chevy, 2 door hardtop, sport coupe--that always cracked me up since it was a tank. It had a lot of original mechanical stuff, but some restoration too, black with new black interior. Every time we drove it on a date, someone in the restaurant would ask him if it was for sale, lol! It was pretty sweet, fun to cruise in. I've got a cousin that rebuilds from the frame up, everything from a 55 Chevy, cherry red, to an old Ford stepside truck, a 20s roadster, and last I heard was another 55, I think, aqua blue, 😊. He starts with them totally trashed and turns them into beauties, just as a hobby, he's not a car guy by trade. He just has a shop at his house he's built over the years. It's fun, they definitely don't make them like that anymore, sadly.
Just realized, Casper crosses over with the Ghostbusters. Dan Aykroyd shows up not being able to destroy Stretch, Fatso, and Stinky. so the Ghostbusters afterlife IS the Casper afterlife.
We miss you, Jack. Thanks for all you helped create!
What if your death was like a modern video game death where you can open a previous save file BUT you only get a save file anytime you think "save". So remember guys whenever when you feel like something bad is going to happen, think "save".
But if you "save" right before you think something bad is about to happen, then you're just caught in a loop where the bad thing keeps happening. "Save" occasionally, if something bad happens make better life choices from your last save file.
Save right before you go to bed. That's the best time to do it
Kind of like Grand Theft Auto?
i'd rather quit to main menu.
This is one of my favorite podcast, Great Job with an interesting topic.
don't know how long they've been doing it, but the format is killer
Getting pretty philosophical up in here.
Immortality seems quite horrifying when you will inevitably become the last Homo sapien sapien alive.
its reasonable to assume that if you get it, presumably someone else can as well.
At first I was like: Damn! half an hour?? no way I have the attention span for that!!
Now I find it too short. REALLY good guys.
Robin Williams "What dreams may come." the movie kind blew but what an awesome idea for an after life everyone gets to build their own world and then visit other peoples world can even have peter pan style adventures in Hell and when all that gets dull be born again
sounds like mine craft but cool
How could that possibly get dull!
3:38 The problem with "becoming a digital consciousness" is that your consciousness would be *copied* into another form. THAT "you" might be effectively immortal, but the original "you" will still exist and then die, never _really_ knowing whether the other "you" is identical to you and resenting that the other "you" will stay alive while the original "you" will still have to experience death (whatever that is).
Imagine just seeing a first person replay of this video on loop forever, that'd be the worst.
I think that any afterlife without any problems would be suuuuper boring, since you can get whatever you want, but then you have nothing to do. Forever. You could make a fake challenge, but you would basically be like
I'm gonna miss this time. I'm gonna miss this time. I'm gonna hit this time.
Like I'd assume you'd be perfect at everything so you would have to fake being bad.
twilight zone made that afterlife hell
when people go to heaven, God will remove any ill feelings we have and every day in heaven is a life of pleasure, so you will feel content always and not feel bored.
As a lucid dreamer, I can say that there are levels of control that get boring, but if you can create a randomized universe, or a place with it's "dreamlike" elements still persisting in some ways.
Also, Christian afterlife is a new earth with work that you enjoy and people that you love and all bad feelings and things similar. It isn't extremely defined, but it is obvious that people will be happy there and happy with their works.
What dreams may come.
The Japanese film After Life from 1998. IMDB describes it - "After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows."
Any movie after life where you gotta come back and help someone down on their luck to get you angel wings.
One of the better podcasts 🙂
Also, the afterlife in the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror seems pretty goddamn sweet.
Steve Buscemi does that version of heaven, Heaven is like a corporation, god quits basically. Miracles Workers is the name.
I love that in the age of ai taking over.. singularity being the after life you would be stored on a floppy disc.
The waiting room in Beetlejuice is the worst afterlife. Imagine being a public servant for eternity.
Swaim's hat is from Back to the Future and symbolic of enlightenment of
the third eye through a rainbow bridge. It makes sense he'd bring up
the singularity.
I think the 'Beetlejuice' option ( hilarious, goulish with powers only limited by your imagination and Michael Keton in his prime), or 'What Dreams May Come' (you live/with in the place, person, painting or time that brought you the most joy while you were still alive)
There are two shows that came to mind while I watched this:
- American Dad, specifically the rapture episode, where anyone who can be considered good gets sent to their own personal heaven and the American Dad version of God is pretty cool, though I think that was a different episode
- Then there's an anime I recently start watching, RE:Zero, where the protagonist returns to a 'save point' after dying; it'd be kind of cool for the first few times but as you keep going sooner or later the stress, horrors and apparent meaninglessness of your actions would cause a mental breakdown as you continuously respawn
wtf is with the underwear adds i only see on cracked videos, also where can i order a bro dryer online?
And they're unskippable too.
Google targets ads based on your search habits. I don't know what you're searching for that you're getting it but it must be underwear related.
I get them too, its weird.
Nah I've been seeing them on cracked vids for months. also way more frequent than ads on other channels.
i turned my addblocker off days ago and i'm still not getting any adds what so ever lolz
I was gonna comment angrily at the woman who asked about Lost. And then Daniel saved it. Thank you Daniel.
Ramis actually said (regarding the Groundhog Day loop) "I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years." I think Danny Rubin who wrote it thought of a lot longer time than that.
That guy saying "robot" like 10 times with 2 min, sounds like the guy from the Chris stuckmann clip of a Prometheus panel where an audience members says "Robot" exactly the same way and about as many times. Check out Stuckmann's Prometheus explained video.
Point-and-click adventure games references wins the podcast for Michael.
I dont know if its the worst, but the most interesting afterlife Ive seen in fiction is shown in the 3rd season of a sci-fantasy show called Lexx(for all who wish to see the show, I am now giving you a spoiler alert. You have been warned) Heaven and Hell are depicted as two planets that orbit each other, one of them covered in ocean(called Water, standing in for heaven), the other one covered in desert(called Fire, standing in for hell), whose atmospheres are connected through a kind of air column which enables air transportation between the planets. Water is dotted with cities themed around hobbies(in the show we see cities themed around sports, gardening and feasting), and Fire has tower cities filled with slave labour whose job it is to man the pumps that make the air breathable, barely. Fire is lead by two opposing figures, called Prince and Duke, and has balloons at its disposal, which its inhabitants use to carry out raids on cities from Water. After a string of successes, the followers of either Prince or Duke plot to take over the rest of their planet, get stopped by their opposition, and then their opposition gets to raid, and so on and so forth. People die, a lot, lots of property damage occurs, but it always eventually gets fixed and people get resurrected, with only Prince and Duke knowing what happened before their resurrections. If you die, you either live blissfully in Heaven until some inhabitants of Hell kill you, only to be merrily resurrected and be none the wiser, or you become a pawn in the power play of one of two devil figures, both of whom are aware of how repetitve and pointless this power play is, if youre lucky and arent forced to slave away doing something even more repetitive and pointless.
Thank you for understanding LOST, Daniel.
Dan your Patrick Swayze voice woke up my cat lol
so glad Dan set the girl straight on Lost. Amazing how many people failed to grasp that ending. It was spelled out so simply. Clearly they just werent paying attention, or didn't actually even watch the show and just claim to.
Obscure sci-fi show reference. Lexx- late in the series, the cast of the show wind up on a pair of planets. Through the course of the arc, we find out these planets (named Fire and Water) are actually heaven and hell analogs. The crew end up destroying the two planets, sending the residents of both planets back to earth, and the show burns out it's final season there. it was a fun show until they hit that arc. Moderately ridiculous with just enough sincerity to make it watchable. and the comic relief comes in some hilariously uncommon ways
I remember reading Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse" and Death goes to collect a soul, and instead of going to the afterlife, it disintegrates, so that person doesn't exist anymore. That's what I want for me.
that's what you'll get, sans Death ofc.
Oh I know. I'm thankful for that. I don't get why people find that terrifying.
+Alexander Cherry I just find mortality extremely terrifying. I myself am an atheist. I believe that there is no afterlife and the idea of not being able to have experiences anymore or feel joy or anger or envy. Life may be hard and uncaring, but i enjoy it.
+Papyrus the skeleton *envy scares me.
I think the idea in that book is you go to whatever afterlife you believe in, so the reason the guy disintegrates is that he's an atheist and doesn't believe in any afterlife.
"I was a surgeon sir. My name was Alfonz!"
i would hate the norse mythology afterlife, which is that if you die a hero with a weapon in hand and you get chosen by ether Odin or Freya you go to Folkvang or Valhalla where you get to fight eternally and die every day until the end of the world when you'll battle in the Ragnarök
The thing is, that's meant to be a heaven of sorts where you engage in a friendly battle royale every day, afterwards you help each other put all your limbs back on properly (I think the fighting doesn't hurt as much as on Earth?) and all go to dinner together and have some awesome mutton chops and beer. It sounds pretty fun actually, if the battles don't hurt.
I've always wondered about in the case of reincarnation the likeliness of having any of your previous life's memories unless you weren't truly brain-dead when you died. As an epileptic I've experienced memory loss so in many afterlives you'd be a new person... note - Memory loss and amnesia are not the same (memory loss doesn't just come back).
Moore's Law refers to "...the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Moore's law predicts that this trend will continue into the foreseeable future."
Nit = Picked.
I love the idea that the entire Batman universe is inside the mind of a traumatised ten year old boy who is sitting in a hospital beside the beds of his parents' who were shot during a mugging gone wrong!
Beetlejuice afterlife waiting room - Yeah, but it's not like an hour - It's 3 months. No sleep. Constant waiting, sucks even more.
I like the Bill and Ted afterlife, if you go to heaven you get to hang out with all the coolest people in history, and if you go to hell you still get to make out with grandma :)
lol omg, the bit about spending eternity with those you die with made me laugh.
i said that to the guy sitting next to me when we were on a route recon in an old huey wide body that was being piloted by someone i still maintain was suicidal but figured a helo crash wasn't "technically suicide", only then i lamented that i was sitting next to him and not the hot female medic lol.
i still laugh about that, but it's entirely likely I'm easily amused
Bring back were not alone series
I really wanna hear the joke Dan decided not to make at 8:55.
As Dreams May Come has hands down the best afterlife: it's designed after your personal taste and you can alter every aspect of it like a mini-god. Everyone has his own and then there are common areas where you can socialize.
Pakatok (or however it's spelled) would be the best sport for me. I suck at sports so I'd live a long rich life
I always thought the lion King afterlife was like karate. You start as the lowest belt, die, become a higher belt and who you become lion you're now a black belt
Angel Beats! Bam, I just won.
There's three possibilites of life there and all lead to the best end:
-you overcome your regrets in life and are reborn(good memories can shape your fate in the next life to be similarly good), if you don't have regrets, autorespawn
-you live the part of your life that you had regrets in normally, happy; reborn after that
-you try to be stupid and defy all that, can do whatever you want, create anything you know and eventually end up on one of the other two paths
No matter how shitty your life was, you can make up for it until you're happy or just get a free doover, whatever comes more naturally to you.
I respectfully disagree. You have to fight zombies and get possessed by evil creatures. Have you seen Haibane Renmei? I think that's a good option. It's a show with a slightly similar premise.
Jennifer Snodgrass That's just the security system making sure that you don't get sidetracked for too long. As I said, eventually you end up either overcoming your regrets or just living the part you regretted happily.
***** Bravo, your argument isn't even part of the discussion **golfclaps**
+An O'Nymous dude I'm an atheist. We are just having fun here
+ArkiosRokuyon yeah it's the defense mechanism, but if you wanted to stay that's something you would have to constantly deal with. Also idk why people like the idea of being reborn so much since I feel like most existential fear comes from losing yourself/loved ones.
Angel beats is really unclear too. Did the pink haired girl end up with Hideaki Hinata in her next life? Was that a flashback or was it just imaginary? The mechanics are blurry
Being able to transfer yourself into a digital self would just be the same as having an immortal twin. You'd see it continue a rewarding life with your values, as you still perish in time.
Worst has to be video games with the save system. Imagine the instant you died, your body and consciousness was immediately put back to wherever you last saved your game, but you still remember everything that just happened. It'd be like having premonitions of the future, and changing said future because you learned from the mistakes. You're basically living life as Raven Symone from that Disney show That's So Raven. Or if you're a super burn out like me, then instead of being placed just a few moments outside of where you died, you're instead set back a day or two, because the only times you save the game are when you're going to stop playing. At that point, life becomes so depressing from thinking about how much time you have to put into listening to whoever monologue forever about something, going to all these different places to accomplish a simple task, and going through every nook and cranny to find anything useful to you. Life just becomes tedious and monotonous at that point.
I think that hell is not fire and pitchforks. I think that it's your personal worst fear like whatever you're afraid of the most, like if you're afraid of being forgotten then you're family and all your friends don't remember you
tfw the youtube ad bugs out so you cant watch the actual video despite how many times you re load
You become aware that you have been retelling your own life story to a demon and as the last moment of your life is told, he says " a good story; can i hear another?" You start with: " In the beginning it was dark..."
11:05 Let's take a moment to appreciate Daniel's spot on Jeff Garlin impression ...
The Lovely Bones would closely resemble my idea of a afterlife.
So we're all in agreement that mike and Daniel are the best people on cracked right
Can someone source the claim Swaim made about Babylonian religeon being intended as satirical? I can't find any related info on that, but I want it to be true. @ 19:38
Seconded.. I"m trying to find something on this as well.
So..? :)
Can't find anything.. Doesn't mean it is or isn't a thing.. Just couldn't find anything.
First time in ages reading youtube comments....trying to figure out the same thing :)
Well, I posted the question to r/AskHistorians on reddit, haven't gotten a reply though..
Dead like me afterlife is the best one. Not only do you get human contact before you die but you get to go to your specific heaven (when your ready of course) or you become a reaper and eat pancakes forever.
There's a YA novel called Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin that I liked when I was in middle school or so. You die and then they take your soul(? I guess?) on a boat to Elsewhere where you live and age in reverse before being sent down a river as a baby and being sort of reincarnated. I liked the idea of getting to live on with your memories for a while longer but not for all of eternity (because wow that just sounds boring) and they could look down on Earth and see the people they left behind and stuff.
Hey cracked been a fan for years I just wanted to ask how does it feel to continue the legacies of a comedy site that is one of the longest running in America's history? please let me know what your thoughts are on this matter.
Worst afterlife-- the venture brothers universe, filled with dozens upon dozens of slain Hank's and Dean's.
Groundhog Day probably follows the Nietzschean concept of the eternal return of the same (Ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen). the main argument is that you should live life in a way that if you were doomed to repeat your life endlessly you'd still make those choices.
I think What Dreams My Come is the best.
Can you let us know how the get at the study that says a societal belief in eternal damnation leads to (or at less correlates with) prosperity?
People always seem to overlook the afterlife of the last Narnia book, which is super Narnia. It has been a while since I read it but as far as I remember it is Narnia but with things from our world and just generally better and bigger.
I'm about the sumerian afterlife. You wake up in purgatory, satan makes you debrief, and then he makes you relive the same life.
man i love that show
I think that the afterlife in the books Everlost would either be really cool if you could be one of the kids to posses people or lead an army. Or it would be really shitty because you're be stuck with a bunch of teenagers forever, could possibly sink to the core of the earth and can't interact with modern things
I think if there's an afterlife that's eternal then I think with angels and people who go to heaven, you lose your sense of boredom, so you can stare at a wall for eons and still be contented. But demons and those who go to hell don't lose their sense of boredom, so they are tormented with having to wait out eternity. This is why demons "possess" people, because being able to exist from another person's perspective would be a novel experience, and when you're immortal and bored, novel experiences are priceless.
3:50 the singularity, uploading your consciousness onto a "floppy disk" would make you immortal. It's the same as the Star Trek transporter problem. It's just a copy of you, a new being that thinks ta you.
Wrong
and the borderlands new-u "by using this new-u station you have forfeited your right to reproduce"
...so? It is identical to you, so, for all intents and purposes, it is you.
If a=5 and b=5,
a=b: no change.
that sounds awful. you are dead and your consciousness is looking back and seeing this fake synthetic copy of you. and your synthetic has to try to live knowing it has no soul, that its just a cheap copy with someone elses memories and will be trapped in the same reality forever until the sun goes supernova. no meaning. no purpose. a literal hell.
nunya baznus well the copies rarely know that they are copies
I want to learn more about the ancient Babylonians''satirical afterlife. 5 minutes on google didn't help me.
Someone help! I want to know more, but the 'Do you want to know more' thing didn't pop up.
22:25 Daniel "of course I know the name of Rudolph the red nose reindeer's girlfriend off the top of my head. don't you?" O'Brien
Swain's hat is awesome
Does anyone know if Dan got to work on the Steve Buscemi/Daniel Radcliffe tv show version of the book afterlife he described?!
My dad is insanely Christian and he seemingly knows literally everything about the Bible. He describes heaven based on the Bible as just literally perfect, it's whatever you want. Idk how you could make an after life better than that.
10:03 "...out of entropy evovle, love, such as your hat"
The best part was the Soren cameo at the end. No homo.
in defense of Twilight (and yes, typing that hurt), they did make a point of saying that the vampires dont mentally age past however old they were when they were bitten.
if you bite a five year old, they could live a thousand years, but mentally they would still be a five year old. at least, the book said this; its like half the plot of the last book/movie
Would've really liked them to talk about slasher movie afterlifes or Pushing Daisies
Stranger than fiction would suck and so would wristcutters a love story
The thing about the 'Apex of technology' reminds me about Brave New World. Things like that just make me shudder.
Ask yourself "why?"
aww, no "Defending Your Life" afterlife?? that's the one I want.
That calvin and hobbes reference!
1408 sense of dread gets me
The scariest bit of most of American Christian versions of the afterlife is that your personality gets rewritten. Who could be happy as they are now, knowing you are in paradise and some of the people you care about are suffering infinite torture for infinite time. Either there is no hell, everyone gets turned into a psychopath entering heaven, or you have to be a psychopath to get to heaven.
Well if your memory is erased then you're basically a baby, and your personality that led you to be Christian wouldnt be there so what was the point of the reward.
Jonathan Tinsley Never heard that exact claim, reference please?
hell is a fantasy ripped straight from the book Dantes Inferno in the 14th century, there is not one single passage in the hebrew bible that mentions "hell" anywhere. the Hebrew translation for "Sheol" means "the Grave", or resting place. True hell is when you punish yourself and feel guilty consumed with regret and loss about mistakes you made in your life, hell is when you base your personality off something material, and when it all fades away and turns to dust you are left with nothing. The point the writers were trying to make is to ground yourself in something real and grow and evolve as a better human rather than let riches and fame and beauty and the latest gadgets consume your life to the point you are a shallow, self absorbed person.
Is this where they got the idea for the newest After Hours episode
The worst afterlife would be being a ghost stuck to Earth during a zombie apocalipse. Just think about watching your body stumbling around and eating other peoples brains.
The number of people who think they're getting into Heaven is greater than the number of people we think will actually make it to Heaven. That is a beautiful statistic.
The thing they missed in beetlejuice was that they had to spend x amount of time in the house so that's why you're there
Can we pls have more 'After Hours'?
would "Magic" Michael Swaim's personality fit on a floppy? like a 1.44MB or maybe a super floppy?
Worst movie after life: Sixth Sense
You need to live the same town as the only KID in the state who can see and talk to ghosts if you have some unfinished business but pretty much terrorize him until he gives into avenging you.
im late this is the first live podcast I've watched but are jack and Dan related
Okay I'm 4 years late but in beetle juice it's like a 1000 years as a ghost before they can move on, it's in the handbook.