Question pertaining to the afterlife in FFXIV

[Larom]

Well, one reason to bring it in, is that your real-life worldview could have an enormous impact on whether you view the Lifestream as a positive or a negative.

If you were not raised religiously, and you do not believe in an afterlife, then the concept of a Lifestream that actually reuses your soul (and, in fact, confirms that you HAVE a soul!) is a lot more uplifting than just turning into wormfood would be. You do live on! Perhaps not as yourself, but as part of millions of other creatures, great and small!

On the other hand, if you're used to believing that some part of you goes on when you die - and that part is YOU, with memories and such intact, then yeah, the Lifestream can be a major downer.

Aye, pretty much me. I was raised Christian and consider myself smack dab between a Christian and a Deist now haha. I Big Lebowski it up and try to think positively about death. That's why I can't wrap my head about questions like "Why do you need a promise of eternal life to be happy?". The idea that someone wants to be wormfood like him hurts my brain.

[Odstarva]

Aye, pretty much me. I was raised Christian and consider myself smack dab between a Christian and a Deist now haha. I Big Lebowski it up and try to think positively about death. That's why I can't wrap my head about questions like "Why do you need a promise of eternal life to be happy?". The idea that someone wants to be wormfood like him hurts my brain.

It's not that anyone wants to be wormfood.

At least, for me, I can't believe in something just because it'd be more convenient for me, more comforting. In fact, I don't choose to believe in anything. I either do or I don't, and that depends on a bunch of different factors (which, frankly, I doubt you'd be interested in).

On another note, I don't think you should be so rigid with this sort of things - I mean, do you kill people on a daily basis? You kill people in-game all the time. I don't see why this, the lifestream, of all the things shown in the game, this is what puts you off.


I get not wanting to be confronted with your own mortality, it's pretty scary, but I think you're taking it to a whole new level when as you said it yourself, it's just a video-game.