Because I Couldn' Stop for Death

[ceasetoexist]

[Well Pokey has had a busy week. Tripping balls over hallucinogenic gas. Bothering a bunch of people and running through their yards as he tried to get away from his hallucination. Getting beaten to death. Beating to death the drone of the person who beat him to death. Getting droned for beating that person to death.

Needless to say, getting killed and then killing someone in the span of a few days has brought a question to mind.]

Hey. Yeah. I’m curious.

Like I know we don’t die here, not really since we come back…what do you all think happens to us after we really do die? Like, do you believe in a Heaven and Hell and all that jazz, or something else, or nothing at all?

Comments

[stay-cool-bro.livejournal.com]

Hm, dunno actually. Their soul still goes to the great spirits. I'm guessing they lose consciousness, so it's like they've ceased to exist as more than just soul. They forfeit their identity and hang around with the souls of rocks, or something.

Yeah, I been there. These freaks jumped my team while we were in the bath so we'd die, go to hell, and then their leader would revive us. It was really annoying, I had to run around the jungle in a towel!!

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why would rocks have souls? They're just things.

[He just pauses, making a few attempts to speak, before giving up and just laughing his ass off. He just thinks what you said was some of the funniest crap ever.]</small.

[stay-cool-bro.livejournal.com]

My people, the Ainu, believe that everything in nature has souls. It basically comes with existence. You'd be surprised, man.

[he's even seen a car's soul before. But he doesn't get there by the time Pokey starts laughing. He's annoyed, but at the same time, can't really blame him since even Horohoro was aware of the ridiculousness.]

Grrr. Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. You weren't there!

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[He eventually patters down on his laughter, though there are still snickers here and there.]

Wow so....so you just have that much belief in souls, huh?

[stay-cool-bro.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. I'm a shaman.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What? Like you talk to plants and animals and crap?

[stay-cool-bro.livejournal.com]

Not exactly? I can communicate with sacred spirits that represent those things. And gods and ghosts.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Ghosts I know exist, though anyone can communicate with them. But I ain't buying anything about gods.