What do you think of this supposed event. ?

[Progressivism]

Supposedly, when God judges the world, a "movie" that shows the life of every person who ever existed will play for everyone to see.

Meaning that all of your actions, which will include all of your sins, will be shown for everyone to see.

Have you seen some espouse this view, or anything similar ?

[laconicsax]

1. Sounds like hell.

I've seen 107 billion as an estimate of the total number of people who have every existed (only measuring back to around 50 thousand years BP). Even if each movie accurately summed up each person's life into 1 hour, that would still take over 12 million years to show. If each life could be summarized into 30 second vignettes, it would still take over 100 thousand years.

There's also the problem of when to draw the line between people and not people. The first Homo sapiens emerged around 200,000 years ago but they wouldn't have been recognizably different from their immediate ancestors. It's easy to look at a 400 thousand year old Homo heidelbergensis fossil and say "different species," but there was no definitive moment where a mother clearly belonging to H. heidelbergensis gave birth to a child clearly belonging to H. sapiens. Rather a population of H. heidelbergensis gradually evolved into H. sapiens through a smooth series of intermediaries over many thousands of years.

edit: order of magnitude typo

[armyowalgreens]

2. I'm assuming you meant 107 BILLION.

[laconicsax]

3. Oops! Let me fix that.

[Azooz]

4. The day of justice (Islam)

It's described much like a movie in Islam, and it further adds that even your tongue and hands, etc will act as witness for/against you.

Old Tom and Jerry cartoons show an angel and demon on the shoulders of Tom "helping" him decide what to do with Jerry, the Koran mentioners something like that but with one recording all good deeds and one recording all sins.

It's a big subject in the Islam and I am not familiar with it's theology but it is part of the even bigger subject of "Taqwa", where one is to live their life and worship God as if his/her every deed is being watched and will be judged - like Big Brother.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

5. When I was young my aunt

told me a story of some woman that was on Oprah (that's how you know she was a reliable source) who had a near-death experience. She said that she went up to heaven and god showed her a film of every good deed she had ever done, which was very brief. This was followed by a very lengthy film of every evil act she had ever committed. My aunt was approving of this view, which makes sense to me because she is Catholic and this seems like a very Catholic view to hold - that you are constantly sinning, every moment of your life, punctuating all that with very brief moments of good. I find this view unfavorable, if for only the reason that I happen to think think I'm a pretty good person, on the whole.

As for everybody getting to see it, I think that would be horribly boring. Each one would take an entire lifetime to watch, and after each one you'd have to start over again with somebody else. This you would do billions of times. Even if you subscribe to the view that Adam and Eve started human life, that's still 6000 years of history to watch, let alone going back millions of years to our Australopithecine ancestors. I'll sit that one out, thank you.