the divine map...

[dannyday5821]

imagine youve died. you get to heaven. you meet god. (okay i know this is based on a particular religion, but its only for the sake of the question!) god tells you..." i can give you a map. a map of your life. it will show you every single path you choose, every single path you could have choose, every single choice, all their causes and effects. this map, will take you an eternity to study." would you accept the map? would you be curious atleast? besides, your dead. you have an eternity to spare, why not? i for one would love to see the map! to see how the smallest of choices and decisions would impact on things later in life. not only that, it would be interesting to see if my final demise was the result of my choices, or fate...so...

would you accept the map?

[grasscarp]

Definitely not. Why spend eternity seeing where you went wrong and what you could have done!

[dannyday5821]

well id still be curious!

[tiny e.a]

Nah, I'd ask to see someone elses and enjoy their failures/successes instead. That way I won't spend an eternity kicking myself for a bad move I've made (unless of course one of the possible paths of any other persons story could cross with one of mine and result in my kicking myself anyway.....hmmm, I think I'll just lie on a cloud)

[spottychops]

i would ask to see gods map, seeing as so many things are wrong in the world, perhaps i could put some of them right again for him

lets not start a row now, this is panning out to be a nice easy going thread, no abuse or nasty opinions please, stay away if u get the rude urge

[bigmamma]

Hello danny, no I wouldn't . What's done is done . What good are what-ifs , if-onlys , maybe-if-I-had/hadn't .......
they would serve no purpose .

[stewey]

Yes, I would accept it: very interesting. However, I think I would get tired of hearing comments from people around me as they studied their maps:

no kidding, how was I to know, ffs, never thought of that, well shet, duh, whoda thought, that's not fair, well shiver me timbers, I wasn't thinking at the time, can I do that part again, etc.

[Shadow Man]

A bit like the movie "Butterfly Effect".

My map, moreover Atlas, would be fairly straightforward.

The only decisions I make nowadays are whether I will have brown sauce or ketchup on my bacon buttie.

Occassionaly I have to chose between TV channels like last week when Doc Martin clashed with Murphey's Law. But apart from these minor trivialities, my decisions are not worthy of a mention. And unless I die whilst eating poisionous brown sauce when Doc Martin is on TV, I fail to see any significance.

[Champagne]

If your dead do you feel such feelings as regret? I'm assuming not, in which case gimme! gimme! GIMME! that map!

[Octavius]

I'd rather spend my eternity doing something less futile, such as drinking, dancing and debaucheries.

[kyra16]

4 sure...got eternity rite?
why not...life (well your dead...but...) is about learnin from your mistakes
hell @ the rate im going when i get up there,...im sure i'll make alot more
why not see...

[Gromit]

It would be nice to confirm that I did everything right.

[nutgoneflake]

I think if I had died happy, with no huge regrets that were already eating away at me, generally felt I'd achieved something, left behind a lot of lovely memories of me for family and loved ones - you know, felt content enough with my lot when I snuffed it, THEN I'd take the map!

If I'd been unhappy for too long, or regretted something that I'd always suspected was significant, or if I'd ever had someone I loved pass away too young in an accident of some kind (because who could tell if something I did had had some far-reaching effect?), then I wouldn't want confirmation of my fears, or to see what might have been. I'd just hope eternity in heaven would be an improvement instead!