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what would your heaven look like?

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what would your heaven look like?
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 11:06 am
Here, in North Carolina:

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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 11:40 am
Happy feeling that never ends, emotional satisfaction due to salvation, no thinking about war, death or the many hideous crimes our world is suffering from. No sadness, no regret.
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 12:09 pm
There is nothing I could think of that could make eternity sound even remotely tempting. While still religious, the idea of living forever and ever, with no end, EVER, was the scariest thing I could think of (even if, technically, I couldn't even perceive it). People are finite, they are not meant for infinity (well, they're not "meant" for anything, but...).
But the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Life is too short, but eternity is daunting. Once you have the good food and sex and safety and entertainment, you want, maybe, true love and genuine respect. And when you have all that, there's a desire to have an impact on society, or leave a legacy or ensure a good future for your children. A lot of what we consider 'higher-order' desires are predicated on mortality. What happens to those when if you wait a trillion trillion trillion years there's still plent of time to get around to 'what you really want to do' eventurally?

That said, I wouldn't turn down an afterlife of hedonism and distraction...as long as there was an escape clause.
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 12:35 pm (This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 12:58 pm by DeistPaladin.)
Three bisexual wives and one bisexual husband.

EDIT (to elaborate): Two connecting his-and-her master bedrooms with a lot of traffic between them and anyone's guess who is sleeping in which room on which night.
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 9:10 pm (This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 9:12 pm by paulpablo.)
wow summerqueen your idea of heaven looks a lot like the tv show lost, which coincidently is my idea of heaven.
and vera i also agree with you that infinity is the scariest thing ever, when i was younger i used to literally tremble with the thought of it being so terrifiying, but now i just dont think about it. I see it as like an ant trying to understand quantum mechanics. We have already been dead forever anyway before we were born so it wont be that difficult to be dead forever again.


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 18, 2013 at 9:47 pm
The forests of NC are ‘lovely, dark and deep.'
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 19, 2013 at 10:49 am
A limitless stash of weed and anime would be the only thing to make an eternity bearable.
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 19, 2013 at 10:52 am
(February 18, 2013 at 9:10 pm)paulpablo Wrote: wow summerqueen your idea of heaven looks a lot like the tv show lost...

YES PAUL WE GET IT.
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RE: what would your heaven look like?
February 19, 2013 at 11:22 am
hey does anyone else like the tv show LOST?


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

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