What is heaven like

[Grospoliner]

The Biblical description is quit possibly the most terrifying thing I've ever read.

"That there will no longer be any separation between God and man. The believers themselves will exist in incorruptible, resurrected and new bodies; there will be no sickness, no death and no tears."

Destruction of the self. You'll lose any semblance of an identity. You won't be able to feel emotions anymore. You will live forever, to watch the world die, then the stars, and finally the universe. Trapped for 10 billion years, then and eternity of watching nothingness. And eternity to go insane.

 

[GodofCider]

This, this, this. The whole point of practicing discipline and self-mastery in this life is so we can be happy in the next.

Because that makes sense.

...well, on second thought. Nevermind, it all kind of flows together.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Well from what I've heard of heaven, theres a lack of chairs. And they're never gona get more.

 

[jhlip]

Its whatever your vision of heaven is. So if heaven is a giant garage for one person, its a giant garage for that person.

 

[DethKid]

he-he-heaven is a halfpipe...

awesome song

but i reckon id be happy if we just chill and cahnge our heaven to whatever we wanted whenever we wanted..

but still have people you care about around

so perhaps like a gaming social network...

man maybe i should join the microsoft avatar revolution

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Well there is "what is hell like" thread and i started thinking about heaven. It's always taken that heaven is this great place. but sometimes i wonder. i mean carnal desires are sinful so no sex. Gods light keeps it super safe so it's planet nerf with no risk. And if it's giant church in which we spend all day worshiping the god that is right there i dunno if i would consider that heaven.

All i know is, if heaven doesn't have a personal holodeck and a fast internet connection i dunno if it's as great as it's made out to be.

***okay these captchas with the 5 degree rotated shadow behind a word have to stop, looking at them is giving me a headache.

Heaven is a mansion filled with videogames and hot oriental chicks.

oh, and the recapcha thing only needs one word, the blurry one, you can put whatever you want for the other word

 

[Grospoliner]

Actually that is a lot like some Atheist's depiction of death. Trapped with no emotion, no thought, and no identity? For eternity? That is depressing, and horrific. No one should be subject to that.

Well no, its not. Atheism has nothing to do with the topic. Extrapolating ideas from a naturalistic world view however, when you die, that's it. You don't think anymore, you don't feel anymore. You're just gone. Death is the end of you.

Buddhism is much the same way, only they believe you get another chance.

 

[Memor-X]

Heaven is what my dreams have been as of late, me being in a word besieged by creature that devour human souls and i'm a member of a military organization set on destroying them and bring about world peace.....yeh don't sound like heaven but it is to me cause i get into battle with giant ass monsters using magic and that, i live in the richest district of Rukon with my sister, her maid and a friend and there's a Pizza Hut joint down the street

 

[triggrhappy94]

Well TV makes it seem cheesy as hell.
Church makes it seem boring as hell.
And, I don't believe in it, so hell.


EDIT:
I believe in Mr. Grieves. Send for a man in the middle. One that talks like doolittle.
Cookie for the reference

 

[Caligulove]

Boring. Anything for eternity would get old. Unless the deities that be would alter your state of thinking or perception, like taking away Knowledge in a Garden of Eden kind of way- but seriously, fuck that. Then apparently youre dealing with deities that want nothing more than subjects to praise them and care nothing about what it really means to be human.

Not necessarily. If your eternity gets old, you're doing it wrong. For example, what if your personal heaven was to live in a world like this one? Except be a god or a citizen? Is living in Mass Effect's world boring?

Heaven isn't boring, the people's ideas of it are. It's what you make of it, just like minecraft.

EDIT: Besides, if its your heaven you should be able to dick around and change it. Unless Heaven is owned by Sony of course or they will sue you with their lawyer angels.

I guess my point is that there is no end. Why would I ever want to live eternally in some form of consciousness. There's no closure, there's no depth or substance to just endlessly living in whatever exotic world you can imagine. Fun for awhile but everything has an ending. Everything, even the stars are made up of matter that is on loan to the cosmos.

I like to think that I only have one life to live, and to live it to the furthest extent. Dealing with the end is hard, but I would rather face a definitive end rather than have some false hope in something that I have no real reason to believe is true.

 

[SD-Fiend]

well my guess is that either
A: it is a personal heaven where all of your dreams come true even if it was to live life normally

B:see SMT Strange journey law ending

 

[FllippinIDIOT]

ive never been there so i wouldn't know. go there and get back to us about what you saw.

 

[tthor]

some say its 72 virgins. Me? I say its 72 sluts.

 

[Morderkaine]

Imaginary. It doesnt exist.
However, to answer the question, what I've felt it is, or should be is a place where you can do anything you want and create your own 'worlds'. Like you could create a Halo game where its like real life (or the best virtual reality possible) and play with your friends and when someone 'dies' in the game they just appear on the sidelines waiting for hte next round. Or just randomly decide you want to relax on a beach and do so for a few hours, then immediately appear on a ski hill if you want. Have your own fantasy RPG style world appear and adventure in it for a lifetime, whatever you can imagine. Its the only way paradise could not end up being so boring you go insane.

 

[SilentCom]

I'm not sure what Heaven is like but I can tell you what its not like. Best way to do this is merely stand up and look around you.

 

[Condor219]

I heard that heaven is a place of pure contentment. You spend eternity in a state of the most exalting happiness, to degrees that you haven't ever felt before, and you won't ever become sensitized to this happiness; day 100000 will be just as awesome as day 1.

That's one theory. Another is that you're given a world that is an absolute utopia, and within that every one of your greatest loves exist. You don't need to sin becuase every true passion you have is right there.

The last thing I've heard is that you're given heaven to enjoy and what not, but you can also decide to reincarnate yourself as any new child (memory of heaven lost, of course) if you wish to spend 90 years of that eternity as human again (and given that you were good enough to go to heaven the first time, you'll make it back there again when you finish that life).

But clearly none of us are at a position to draw specific conclusions, so I'll just say that Heaven is like playing you're first video game and discovering how awesome they are, and hell is being stuck with the likes of Too Human for all eternity.