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What does one Do in Heaven - a few answers
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Well, you're not an omnipotent psychopath, so you don't get a vote.
Ramaraksha
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Reading some of the responses of Heaven is disappointing - they ALL end the same way as all fantasy children's stories - "and they happily lived ever after"
Heaven - the happy retirement home - God saying - "go live down on earth for a few years, some a few days or even hours and then come back and live happily ever after"
And this is the Grand Plan?
How does this make any sort of sense in the 21st century? Why do millions give in to these fantasies?
Heaven - the happy retirement home - God saying - "go live down on earth for a few years, some a few days or even hours and then come back and live happily ever after"
And this is the Grand Plan?
How does this make any sort of sense in the 21st century? Why do millions give in to these fantasies?
T.G.G. Moogly
Traditional Atheist
In Tom's heaven she needs a blanket, just not in yours.
DBT
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Comfort. It is a comforting illusion.
arnoldo
Member
Maybe sit around on a cloud and play a harp. . .
ideologyhunter
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Masturbate to Christian trombone solos. Stop complaining.
Iznomneak
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From an old Black Sabbath album cover.
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T.G.G. Moogly
Traditional Atheist
What? No bong?
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
Cheerful Charlie
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Heaven is like where you are now, but much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson
Which is better? A happy pig or an unhappy Socrates?
- John Stuart Mill
Maybe God makes souls in heaven stupid but happy.
- Laurie Anderson
Which is better? A happy pig or an unhappy Socrates?
- John Stuart Mill
Maybe God makes souls in heaven stupid but happy.
Ramaraksha
Senior Member
Unhappy Socrates - any day
sharon45
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No, I'm saying it is ultimately God's show, and we're just puppets involved in it to some unknown degree.
sharon45
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I don't have a version of Heaven, I'm merely trying to work inside of what's already imagined.
sharon45
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Well, Christians wouldn't considered themselves as pigs, but they also don't think of themselves as stupid either.
They are already stupid enough even before they supposedly get there.
Underseer
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Christians aren't stupid because they're Christian; they're stupid because they're human.
FwL
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Considering the lion and the lamb will lie down together, I'm thinking the lions are gonna need something else to eat.
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Tom said:
No, picture the most ecstatic moment in an intense revival church. More like that all the time. I was religious once, and while my church didn't do that sort of thing, there were enough intense moments to convince me that religious ecstasy is quite real and this is a plausible scenerio: if one accepts the idea of Heaven to begin with, of course.
I've always thought this sort of argument is extremely feeble, and it is better to go hard at the idea that heaven is too good to be true, rather than to suggest that heaven might not be so great. After all, if you argue that heaven isn't so great, you are tacitly admitting the possibility of heaven. And the religious people have plenty of skilled arguers, from whom you can pick whichever you like. Dante beats Ramaraksha any day of the week.
sharon45
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I didn't say that they were, but remaining Christian is going to make them stupider in certain ways.
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sharon45
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This is a laugh.