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Let me just say first of all that I reckon there's a 50/50 chance of there being any kind of afterlife. As a species we're still so much in the infant stages of biology, physics, cosmology, technology and understanding of consciousness, understanding of the universe, that I reckon anything is possible. Or not possible. I kind of try to live my life so I'm okay with either outcome, cos I have no idea. It could so easily be, and maybe is, cessation of consciousness, total blackout, and end of everything for me. Or...hmm... weird glimmers of light and...something else.

This blog post is about that potential  "something else". It's just an idle thought experiment.

Let's say after we get hit by that car, succumb to cancer, have that heart attack, eat that awful shellfish, or get caught up in some weird postal shooting, that we do find ourselves in another place. Then all those glowy people are telling you that, hey, you could be a real shithead sometimes but your karma ain't too bad. So you have choices.

1) You can come back into this world, after a little break to eat mangoes, lie down with lions, gasp at rainbows, get your spiritual teeth cleaned. But coming back means risk. Time ain't what you thought it was and guess what, human history is just an everpresent chessboard. You might come back to the middle ages, or prehistoric times, or ancient Egypt, or the Irish potato famine, or Russian serfdom. Or the 1970s. You might be a prince, a pauper, a peasant, a priest, a prehistoric nutjob. Hey, you might come back as straight, as a woman, as a cripple, as someone with downs syndrome, as someone starving in a wartorn village with no idea how that could be happening to you, not knowing it was you that allowed it through your choice to come back. But whatever it is, it's what you've earned, you have to deal with it, and  - warning - you might reduce your karma by reacting to the existential nightmare by making even worse decisions, within the allowances for your new situation, than you just did in your pizza eating, liberated western gayboystube accessible lifestyle in 2017.

2) You can opt out. In fact, it just so happens there's a gay planet. Life there ain't too bad. If you choose that it's kind of the end of your spiritual cosmological progression and you'll never know what mindblowing heights of infinity you gave up on by not diving back into the unknown. But at least no more shit. A planet of full of males. Indirect rules and controls prevent violence. No poverty. A few bits of weird or tedious forms of cosmic work to earn your keep but no grinding labour or economic immiseration. Everyone there gets to be themselves, but kind of physically perfected, their "cutest" self. Not only that but everyone can choose what age they are. What age would you be? Clearly it's a planet of hanging out, having sex, taking the odd bit of substances, just having fun. You even get to watch the ongoing antics of Earth online and TV.

Thing is, if you choose option 2 that's you forever. You bailed out from the misery of this world,  all the hassle, and the risk, and now you've got your gay heaven, but you'll never know what else there might have been. How deep did the rabbit hole go? How collossal might the bliss of unimagined soul development have been? How much knowledge was out there that you thought, nah, not worth the price of admission to. Was gay heaven as good and ultimate as it could really get? Was there something deeper and more amazing that might have been out there, beyond straight and gay, beyond heaven and hell, beyond pain or bliss?

Just curious what you guys might say, or even what your own thought experiment versions of this are. I know we all, at points, imagine the possibilities. And the way gay males imagine infinity is obviously different than straight people do.