RE: What is heaven?
October 13, 2012 at 8:14 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2012 at 8:17 am by Welsh cake.)
Heaven in all mythologies represents people's wants and desires.
Christians want wealth and their own mansions...
Muslims want virgins...
Hindus want complicated shit that makes no sense...
The core of that fantasy, is instinctive self-preservation, the desire to outlive death.
When we deny our childish fantasies, and tame our wild imaginations, reality sets in:
All human beings, will without exception, eventually die. All humans return to "mu", oblivion, nothingness. All humans, regardless of their actions/inactions during life, simply cease to exist upon dying, and are all equal in death.
Life is chaos, ever changing fact, where there are always winners and losers, pain and pleasure. Oblivion however, as the default state, is fact, it is an eternal timeless peace, greater than any human concept of an afterlife.
When you embrace nothingness, reality makes no sense, time loses meaning, you are freed of the weight of your failures and successes, the chains of the laws of physics, the shackles of your identity, the burning agony of knowledge, and the chilling fear of doubt from lack of said knowledge, the burden of your genetics that predetermine who you are, you are removed of your responsibility to others, you forever escape your accountability to higher authorities, you throw off your natural pressures to survive and strive.
Oblivion as nothing, is true freedom, from everything.
Therefore, it stands to reason, that oblivion is true paradise.
Christians want wealth and their own mansions...
Muslims want virgins...
Hindus want complicated shit that makes no sense...
The core of that fantasy, is instinctive self-preservation, the desire to outlive death.
When we deny our childish fantasies, and tame our wild imaginations, reality sets in:
All human beings, will without exception, eventually die. All humans return to "mu", oblivion, nothingness. All humans, regardless of their actions/inactions during life, simply cease to exist upon dying, and are all equal in death.
Life is chaos, ever changing fact, where there are always winners and losers, pain and pleasure. Oblivion however, as the default state, is fact, it is an eternal timeless peace, greater than any human concept of an afterlife.
When you embrace nothingness, reality makes no sense, time loses meaning, you are freed of the weight of your failures and successes, the chains of the laws of physics, the shackles of your identity, the burning agony of knowledge, and the chilling fear of doubt from lack of said knowledge, the burden of your genetics that predetermine who you are, you are removed of your responsibility to others, you forever escape your accountability to higher authorities, you throw off your natural pressures to survive and strive.
Oblivion as nothing, is true freedom, from everything.
Therefore, it stands to reason, that oblivion is true paradise.
