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  • What do you do when you go to Heaven?

    Exactly as the topic states. For those of you who believe in an after life, what do you do once you reach your destination of paradise?

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    I think it will be like the end of Tool's video for Parabol/Parabola - you will become a part of the universal mind and be in a state of Nirvana.
    Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org/

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    • #3
      Probably post on Apolyton about it.

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      • #4
        Whenever you were happiest. The things you loved are there. The people you loved knew good people, and you you didn't have time before to meet them, but now you do.
        You don't have time to miss anyone. Time on earth has no meaning. You land, stand up and look around, and the people you left behind are landing all around you.
        50 earth years compared to eternity? Your great, great grandaughter is about to land right where you're standing, move over.
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #5
          I'm told it involves seventy virgins with swelling breasts.
          "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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          • #6
            Originally posted by SlowwHand
            Whenever you were happiest. The things you loved are there. The people you loved knew good people, and you you didn't have time before to meet them, but now you do.
            You don't have time to miss anyone. Time on earth has no meaning. You land, stand up and look around, and the people you left behind are landing all around you.
            50 earth years compared to eternity? Your great, great grandaughter is about to land right where you're standing, move over.
            Sounds a bit like Heathrow.

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            • #7
              You mean Heathrow sounds like me. Loud and annoying?
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #8
                I had a thread on this awhile back, several years ago.

                I know the closest thing I've ever had to heaven on earth, and that's what I hope will be there for me in heaven, only there is no time. You don't need to hurry or rush because you have all the time in the world.

                I would love to just live in that moment, and be able to make it last forever.
                Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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                • #9
                  I would love to just live in that moment, and be able to make it last forever.
                  Personally I'm of the opinion that these special moments are special because of a rough formula (happiness or meaning)/time. The greater the value, the more special that moment is. If the moment went on for longer and longer it would lose its significance. For instance briefly meeting the Queen might be a grand experience, a very special moment. If on the other hand you lived in Buckingham Palace it isn't really all that special.

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                  • #10
                    Personally I'm of the opinion that these special moments are special because of a rough formula (happiness or meaning)/time. The greater the value, the more special that moment is. If the moment went on for longer and longer it would lose its significance. For instance briefly meeting the Queen might be a grand experience, a very special moment. If on the other hand you lived in Buckingham Palace it isn't really all that special.
                    That's because you are thinking of time in the sense that we have here today, where you are doing one thing for a long time.

                    I'm thinking of time where the distance between two seconds could last a thousand years. It's hard to explain. It's not like getting up every morning and going hiya queen, it's like you are experiencing everything for the first time, and you can control how long everything lasts.

                    I don't know if that makes any sense at all.
                    Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                    "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                    2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

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                    • #11
                      I do beleive in heaven. I don't believe in a seperate spiritual realm, rather that there is/will be a physical place.

                      JM
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                      • #12
                        This reminds me of the end of American Beauty. I think desperately holding onto a moment and wanting it to last forever would become living HELL.

                        The secret of paradise is letting it go - surrendering - letting it flow through you.
                        Voluntary Human Extinction Movement http://www.vhemt.org/

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Jon Miller
                          I do beleive in heaven. I don't believe in a seperate spiritual realm, rather that there is/will be a physical place.

                          JM
                          I'm sorry, not really trying to get involved, but this begs the question: then how do we get there?
                          "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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                          • #14
                            Even if there's a place called Heaven, I'm not sure what part of me would go there. Humans can't see, hear, feel, touch, think or remember (who we are, who are our loved ones or what we like) without our bodies (our brains, in particular). Look at people who suffer from Alzheimer's. After a while, they don't know who they are and they can't recognize their loved ones anymore. The person they were just withers away, never to be seen again. Since my Self is intimately linked to my memory, and since memories are information stored in my brain, there's reason to believe that I, nostromo, will not survive my death. So even if some part of me goes to Heaven after my death, it will not be me and it will not be able to recognize my loved ones, it will not be able to see, hear, smell or touch anything. So why do you care whether that thing goes to Heaven or not? You won't survive yourself.

                            Sorry for my naive theological ramblings...
                            Last edited by Nostromo; June 16, 2007, 00:04.
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                            • #15
                              The way some of you envision Heaven, if I ever got there I would certainly want to post a "Do not disturb" sign on my front ..cloud.

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