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yeah, option one i've heard it described as the "once saved always saved" story, usually involving baptism

but i'm inclined to say that you aren't really taking it seriously if you don't cultivate a better character and focus your life towards healing and righteous action

More of a motivation killer than a time preference effect in my book. Time preference is what action, motivation is action or not. Why acheive in life when heaven will be awesome either way?

If you believe this theory it is evidence that any famous wealthy pastor is a non believing scammer.

Imagine Osteen flying back in his private jet to preach a sermon on Matthew 6.

"19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Even as a fairly spiritual type of person, I think most ideas of heaven are silly at best, and almost certainly a political scheme to control the herd.

Here are my 2 sats:

The idea of an afterlife—whether comforting or intimidating—remains, at best, a possibility, not a certainty.

Since we have no means of verifying what lies beyond death other than dying to see, allowing such a hypothetical to dominate our decisions in the present risks anchoring our lives to speculation rather than to reality.

Regarding the belief in it, someone might be tempted to do the bare minimum—secure the “ticket” to some imagined paradise, then maximize present-day gratification with a high time preference.

Alternatively, the promise of eternal joy could encourage extreme patience, a kind of stoic or religious endurance, lowering one’s time preference to near-zero, as all current discomfort is minimized in light of the coming reward.

But both paths rely on a level of certainty that we don’t—and likely can’t—possess about the matter.

A more grounded approach is to let such beliefs inform us, but not completely govern us.

Beliefs about the afterlife may carry emotional or philosophical value, but they shouldn’t eclipse the imperative to live well now.

Meaning, growth, and peace in this life are worthy ends in themselves—not just strategies for possible future pleasures or insurance against possible future pains.

Whether or not something awaits us after death, the only responsible position is to orient our lives around what we know to be real: the present.

That doesn’t mean ignoring that there is an unknown before us.

This helps us to give it its proper weight in our present life, perhaps, but not the ultimate power over our decisions.

In that light, time preference should be shaped by what is more plausible real, not by unprovable promises, wishes and fears.

Choosing wisely in the now is the clearest path to integrity, regardless of what may—or may not—come next.

#HornsUpForSatoshi