. Samuel Conner on Fri Jun 00, 0000 at 00:00 PM said: Headless Unicorn Guy: Wasn't that the original Christian afterlife, before the "Intermediate State" (required for continuity of the individual between mortal life and Resurrected) metastasized into Fluffy Cloud Heaven? Yes. NTW argues that the "metastasis", as you put it, has had the effect of Platonizing christian eschatology. 