now we are all treading dangerously close to a bottomless cliff now, ok; free-fall.
In contrast our "baptisms" are social events now, we mostly even go celebrate after, right, go to Luby's or whatever, and then go right back to our old lives? And sure you might hear "buried" mumbled real quick while you are underwater, but that's about all the counselling you get on that, right. No free-fall, or even slight dislocation in that at all. none
But see, someone is going to read this and die today--whenever today is, doesn't matter--and they are...not going to have the same experience, not even close. All their "anchors" are going to disappear, and these are very comfortable and familiar things to most ppl. And walking down the road to some town you are not familiar with, flat broke and no spares, is not very comfortable, at first. You will experience more than one occasion of questioning your sanity, like everyone else is doing already.
and i guess there is no dipping the toe in here; you either get the social experience and go sit on the fence like everyone else, or you suck it up and die. There will be mourning, etc, in the moment anyway, in a real "water" baptism, and the literal water is strictly for the ritual, the kiddie pool, as we all know what "water" reps already. You will be changing Sources here, is what you're doing--well, the Source has not changed of course, but your definition of it will. When you are walking down the road broke, you will have no choice but to see that you are relying on God for...everything, your next breath even. Now take your purse and your suitcase; but don't do this imo until you are reluctant to come back, or you will just "return" the wrong direction prolly
and maybe it isn't obv yet, but when you baptism/die you are no longer gonna be even a little bit worried about getting that part of you that you currently consider "I" into some place called heaven after the second death. We do not yet know what we will become, and i for one certainly am not interested in limiting the experience to some crystal-ball-gazers vision of an endless party with Jesus in full armor