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Originally Posted by Brianna
if we do, we make up a highly detailed chart about how our life on earth will go and what specific thing we wish to overcome or experience while there.
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There must be a disclaimer in that document, like 'actual experiences may vary', because I cannot imagine a lot of people choosing the lives they lead, except maybe George Clooney and Angelina Jolie.
As for the afterlife, it's not a big focus in Judaism. A lot more is geared towards making this life the best it can be. The experience of the Christian church is that they had to make suicide a mortal sin because after selling all of the peasants in the dark ages on the wonders of the afterlife, the attitude of
some true believers was
'why wait'?
I hope that there is a Heaven, but I do not believe that G-d has failed us if all he gives us is one brief time on this earth and the free will to make of it what we can.
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