Something I don't get

[forsyth]

Another thing that struck me, when reading through some more Buddhist stuff, along with a couple other things, that I just don't get. The whole idea of "Don't do X while you're alive, then when you die, you'll go to a paradise where you can do X even better!" It's usually about sex, or drinking, and just confuses me. You get rewarded by resisting sex/drink/whatever by... being given sex/drink/whatever. Seems kinda counterintuitive, I guess.

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[spaglet.livejournal.com]

Whatever it is, you very much want it - and if you can resist that, and thereby prove fealty, then you get it in spades.