If life acts as some kind of test to determine our position in the afterlife,...?

Question

...do you think the testmaker is competent? Do you think think it is an reliable and valid test that places people appropriately?

My personal position is no, the testmaker isn't very competent. And I say that because every life is different so it would be impossible to standardize the test conditions. With life being uneven as it is, I think the only just judgement would be that everyone goes the same afterlife or to one that is singularly unique for them.

But I want to know what you think. Do you think the testmaker knows what he/she/it is doing? If this life is a test, should it be revised?

Answer 1

LOL..

This isn't a test... this is all there is.
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Answer 2

I suppose life is a test of some sort, though not a rigorous one, not the standardized one you mention. I've always thought that each life is SO very different, even in the tiniest ways, not to mention the broad strokes, that any 'afterlife' must also be entirely unique, even in the tiniest ways, not to mention the broad strokes.
No standard test; maybe not really a test, per se, at all... just a "wrinkle in time" (as was the title of a book by L'Engle)... We are as we are, and we make the choices we make, and anything after that is, to my mind, a mere continuation of some sort or other.
My position, as you put it in your question, is that there is an essence, spirit I say, that is eternal and everywhere, and that also happens to be unknowable, at least to me-- so far removed from human that we just can't know it-- but since we live and breathe, some scrap of it is in us till we die, then it just goes on eternally doing whatever it does... one thing being, to my mind, being present everywhere and in every living thing. And I'm not so sure about rocks and such being without spirit, either, since they call volcanoes "active" and whatnot like that. I sincerely hope you see what I'm trying to say. I get a bit tangled up, but I mean the best.
No standard test!

Answer 3

first of all it is not a reliable and valid test. circumstanes beyond your control are constantly effecting you so it is not fair for that reason.. one may say that a better person would try to make the best of circumstances.. but either way you look at it, circumstances mold the person you otherwise you were born as that person based on your gene structure. whichever it is, can you say its fair. either the world made you this way or "the testmaker made you this way." so how can you fairly judge those who you have either handicapped at birth or those who became the person they are based on factors out of their control. it is not possible. I vote revise the test or base it on a very complex systematic analysis of each person as an individual. testing everyone the same would be like testing the entire world with a test that was written in french. it just isnt fair to everyone because everyone is different

Answer 4

I don't think life is a test. It sounds too simple - even physical life is not that simple!
But...
If it would be a test, it would be so huge that the testmaker would have to be bigger than life. If that would be so, than we, who are just mere components of life, couldn't dare to think about the tester's competence.