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This game appealed to me because I seriously do believe that any afterlife probably involves shedding our individual perspective mindset and merging with a single God soul, but it didn't appeal to me because I got stuck waiting in this Blank Space for likely an eternity

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The angel lady says to wait around forever, but you can trick her by refreshing the browser and answering the questions differently. 😈

In all seriousness, why do you believe that humans merge with a God soul after death? Is that taught in a particular religion or does it just feel right? I'm curious.

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Hmm, don't 100% believe it, it's more like... an instinctual feeling? That a god created everything but then wanted to appreciate all the facets of their universe via a multitude of different perspectives - so the god splits themself into near infinite "souls," anything alive (microbe to doberman to human to whale to planet, etc) to live mortally and independently. The lifeform dies and that vehicle for the god's perception simply melts away, and its soul rejoins with the larger god, kind of like your game :) But an afterlife might just as easily be run by an obscure African goat god who tortures us. Half the time I believe there is no afterlife/ no souls/ no reason for our existence, and when we die that's it. A purposeless universe is beautiful, too!

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What a wonderful and compelling feeling. I was first introduced to this idea of souls joining together from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and it's remained a fascination of mine, even though I don't know that I believe it.

I'm fairly agnostic, but I think a purposeless universe is the most beautiful. If all this came together by happenstance, rather than a plan? How miraculous!

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