what the other guy said about first breath but also many people vastly overestimate how many humans there have been.
There have been more humans born since 1900 than before (since humans first appeared).
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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Assuming the Christian afterlife, it would be chock full of dead babies and children. They would outnumber adults significantly. Every single failed pregnancy, tiny little unformed baby angels. Even fertilized eggs that just fail to implant, Little blastocysts with wings…
It’s something like 1 in 3 fertilized eggs never get born. Then given global infant and child mortality, another good chunk die really young.
Add on top of that the fact that a good chunk of adults are going to hell, and presto, you have a heaven full of children with an average age well below puberty.
Given that, it’s probably a perpetual pizza party with a ball-pit and some mascots running while listening to baby shark.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Not as far as any data I’ve seen…
prb.org/…/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-eart….
117 Billion Humans ever
www.weforum.org/…/quantifying-human-existence/
109 Billion Humans…
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
ah, then I was misinformed.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Heaven in Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is how I imagined it.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
afterlife, it would be chock full of dead babies and children
Alive babies and children, I guess.
Why do you think they are dead then?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Scripture says the soul enters the body on the first breath.
And anyone who still argues anyhow… will likely say they’re condemned to hell because they were unable to accept their “lord and savior” (who ostensibly created everything so he could larp as such,)
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
I thought that’s what purgatory was for (if we ignore no biblical mention of it iirc).
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s not technically a place at all, but a state of existence. Basically, its the final purification of souls before being admitted into heaven; Catholics will say that if you die outside of god’s grace, you don’t go to purgatory at all, just straight to hell. (do not pass go, do not collect 200 god coins.) protestants (especially weslians, and maybe eastern orthodox, but don’t quote me on that,) would say that the final purification happens in the moment of death. (Wesely basically argued that they had become perfect enough in life.)