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I don't believe that either. I personally believe that one's memory and how it lives on in other people is our final judgement.
That makes no sense, you're not alive anymore to be judged. You are gone. If you imagine a dead person partying or having sex, does that do or change anything to the dead person? It's over.
However if you meant like in a general sense like the way people judge Stalin or Hitler, fine, but they're also gone.
I meant in the general sense. A bit like the Pratchett quote from /u/samus12345 in this thread. It wont matter to them personally but being thought of as the worst person alive is a pretty powerful judgement.
That way no god judgest you, but your peers who are alive. It's a bit like Dawkins' idea of memes, those who remain relevant the longest (e.g. Aristotle) are the greatest. Therefore those who are remebered as pricks get judged most harshly and people who are fondly remembered are the most blessed.
But thats my belief, and I wont really preach that as there is little to gain. There is a bit of karmic justice in it I think.
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man