Heaven?

[pasithea]

You know. Just thinking about the whole religion thing some more and it occurred to me... All these people who are trying to get into heaven... What are they going to do when they get there? I've never heard a single religious person mention their post-heaven-arrival plans. You're going to be happy for all eternity? How, exactly? Eating from the tree of knowledge is a sin, so you probably won't get to catch up on your reading. Likewise, adultery, sloth, gluttony, etc... So.. How exactly are you going to be 'happy'?

Comments

[schlake.livejournal.com]

Once you are in heaven you will have put all that behind you. You won't be a Stepford wife; you will be complete and content and happy forever with no bad side effects. You won't need to accomplish anything or overcome anything anymore.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

So you lay around doing nothing forever? How's that different from being dead in the way atheists see death?

[schlake.livejournal.com]

When you are dead, you are dead. In heaven you are eternally with God.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

I suppose I could see this as an instant of completeness lasting forever in a figurative way, like a sort of time dilation effect applied to the moment of death. This would, technically, make death the time of your life.