Heaven/hell would be a much different place than the religions depict. First off, there wouldn't be two segregated camps of people who did the 'right' or 'wrong' things in life. It would function as many social sites do today, allowing people to only visit/be visited by people they like/permit, respectively. You would have a computer to send requests for such things, do it in your head, or any other interface you could think up. After that, i have a few different ideas about how the places to be visited would work:
~An afterlife reflective of how you treated your environment while you were alive; i.e. you get one acre of land. Then, for every piece of trash you went out of your way to pick up, that you had no contact with before you picked it up, another acre of land gets added to your lot. Along with this, every piece of trash you threw out the window of a car, tossed next to a trash can, into a forest or river, etc. will be in your eternal sanctuary forever. You won't be able to move it or hide it in any way, it will age in your haven just as it did after it first left your hand before you died.
~You can do anything, absolutely anything with your allotted property. It can be warped, twisted, layered, folded, anything you can possibly think of, but if you allow walking on that surface, it will take up some of your land. Any physics you like can be applied to the world you have (for most people this would mean imposing different video-game logic upon their worlds, e.g. minecraft physics, destruction-mod physics, portal physics). Houses (every story would eat up a portion of your land of course), plants, water features, wildlife, and anything else you have in your mind can be added to your little world.
~You can have a normal sun and moon along with their regular cycles for the background or use something you saw in your life or even create something from your imagination to surround your world.
~If so desired, worlds can be joined to create new ones either partially or entirely. Whether or not they will be separated again is up to either party, both can create and destroy as they wish on the land and either is able to sever their amount of given land from the whole of the property at any time without consent (more complicated rules would be in place for things like group projects and such, but this is already sounding enough like a psychotic's delusional contract as it is).
One last thing, to fix the rather glaring issue that some of you may have seen: people are shit. Say, for instance, two people create a world together and then one insults the other somehow and either of them destroys the whole place before taking their chunk of land and doing something else with it. Obviously, some people involved in this situation would tell others about it, with the truth in all manner of distortion. Things would likely escalate until there were two or more factions at war, as much as they could be in such a place, constantly. This does not allow for a very good afterlife, does it? So, to address the issue, there would be a device. It would appear differently to everyone, as a person or a machine or a disembodied spirit, etc. All one would have to do is call out its name (i may be delusional but not enough to bother thinking of a name for it) to have conference with it, multiple persons allowed at once either in groups or individually. It would have a record of everything in memory format; i.e. people could either experience things from someone's viewpoint directly, through their eyes, or in video form. All that would be necessary is to request a certain person and a time frame (i am not going to think of a time-keeping system for this fantasy). With this, one could hold meetings to bring out the truth or simply be voyeuristic (though i don't imagine anyone would want to be in this place).
I have more ideas for my heaven but for now i'm tired. I'll most likely write some more about it when i'm bored. Feel free to comment if you see errors in my logic. There probably are.
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