What is heaven like? (Even atheists can play!)

[J. Burnaway]

What is your conception of heaven? It can be what you believe based on your religion, or what you think it should be to be worthy of the title, or what you are worried it will be that makes you not so excited to go. (Assume for the purpose of this thread that heaven does exist - arguing if it does or not is for another thread).

Is it a bunch of people playing harps?
Will you be able to "get some"?
Will you see all your friends and relatives?
Will you have to see all the people you didn't like when you were alive?
Do you get those cool halo things to wear to parties?
Do you get to meet God?

All these questions, and many more, will be answered by...

[Shenlong]

The bathroom is the only conception of heaven I can think of. It has alot of white in the room and I do feel happy there...

[Vie]

A giant Library, with huge computers and a hovercar to get round.

[Huehuetenango]

a relaxing environment
no stress, no worries
a nice peaceful forest usually comes to mind
surrounded by family and friends

[eleet-2k2]

I think heaven is a place where you are with all your deceased family members and loved ones, friends, etc where you can do anything you like. You are carefree and stress free and can enjoy all the R&R.

[Orgone_Man]

Maybe heaven is like a dream state where you can manifest yourself into any kind of setting.

[Cameron221]

A big LAN PARTY!

[n_ick2000]

Originally posted by Cameron221
A big LAN PARTY!

I can imagine this now.


"Haha, Jesus. I fragged you."
"Hey, that was only cuz you rushed with God"
"Yeah right. I could frag you any day."

I'm sure that'll go over well in heaven... :p

[Raymund Nonatus]

haven't you heard?

~"ooh, ooh, heaven is a place on earth"~
http://www.bradmj.demon.co.uk/belinda-carlisle/images/belind02.jpg

[Avalon]

Warning: I'm gonna get biblical on you

I don't think there is really any heaven or hell (which were merely concepts created in the middle ages to sell induljences). But more or less a passing, like how you see people in the sci-fi shows pass through a gateway or warp gate. I think we right now are living heaven, or really our life again. What I think heaven really is, is a chance again at our life, we may be in a different body or live in the same body, but we are just ourselves living out our lives in the past, present or future (from the life that we died at). make any sense, let me explain:

Say for instance I die (please not anytime soon), I'll pass into a nother life, and wake up in it through a birth (i.e. when you're comming out of your mother), you are the same person inside, but you get a chance to live over again, and it could be any time, I could end up in the middle ages. What determines it? WHo knows... maybe aura? Maybe what you did before? I really can't say. It's more of a passing into another reality and dimension than it is really dying, and getting some wings.

Either that or it's a really huge super bowl party that happens every day. :D

[Orgone_Man]

sounds interesting, avalon, and it sounds similiar to reincarnation. Some believe that we do retain knowledge when we continuously pass on but cannot be aware of that knowledge while in our present state. It's like we are taking test after test to ever increase our enlightenment.... but for what? What is the final destination? [que song: Final Countdown]:D

[Metalman]

For me, I would imagine Heaven to be just like an old simpsons episode, when Homer is on a raft rolling down a river of lava jaming with an old classic rock song from Styx! :D :up:

[Xerxes]

I like the Ferengi version of the Afterlife...

Ferengi believe that those who have earned a profit during their mortal lives can enter the Divine Treasury after death. There, under the guidance of the Blessed Exchequer, the Celestial Auctioneers allow them to bid on new lives.

Those who have not earned a profit are thought to be doomed to the Vault of Eternal Destitution



What a beautiful idea- monetized Karma...

[patroclus22]

Originally posted by Xerxes
I like the Ferengi version of the Afterlife...



What a beautiful idea- monetized Karma...

Something like that could almost make me believe in God again.

[Xerxes]

Of course the accountant agrees with me! :)

I imagine unlike most assets, large amounts of monetized karma wouldn't depreciate either. ;)

[patroclus22]

It would have to be amortized (because it's an intangible asset) over the duration of the afterlife, or 27 years, whichever is shorter.

Dear lord am I dull... :p

[Xerxes]

:blah: First time these forums have made me loudly laugh in awhile.






:(

[patroclus22]

Yeah, it's nice for a change, isn't it?

[Avalon]

Originally posted by Orgone_Man
sounds interesting, avalon, and it sounds similiar to reincarnation. Some believe that we do retain knowledge when we continuously pass on but cannot be aware of that knowledge while in our present state. It's like we are taking test after test to ever increase our enlightenment.... but for what? What is the final destination? [que song: Final Countdown]:D

You know what, I don't think that it's more ever a way to increase our enlightenment, more of a way to experience everything... okay

[inster biblical warning here]

If we were all made from God, then we must all be a part of him because we were made in his image. Now Jesus was a part of God, he was both 100% human and 100% divine. Now Jesus is also a part of God (hence the trinity), and it's because of that God was able to experience what being human really is. Now multiply that by everyone in the world. Maybe we are all just peices of God, wanting to experience life, what it is about, and maybe that's what heaven really is... the pure realization that life is to be enjoyed. Think of it, loosen all of your bonds to everything, work, school, parents, everything and just live life? Is'nt that nirvana? Isn't ia also unimanagable like heaven?

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Avalon

Now multiply that by everyone in the world. Maybe we are all just peices of God, wanting to experience life, what it is about, and maybe that's what heaven really is... the pure realization that life is to be enjoyed. Think of it, loosen all of your bonds to everything, work, school, parents, everything and just live life? Is'nt that nirvana? Isn't ia also unimanagable like heaven?

That is a most glorious statement.
Perhaps all life is god and god is all life. There is no seperate entity. One is all and all is one.

Do you agree with the following statement?: "Do what thou wilt, let that be the whole of the law."

[Avalon]

Originally posted by Orgone_Man


That is a most glorious statement.
Perhaps all life is god and god is all life. There is no seperate entity. One is all and all is one.

Do you agree with the following statement?: "Do what thou wilt, let that be the whole of the law."

Not nessesaruly all is one, and one is all, but a part.

No I don't agree with that, completely. I belive everyone has the freewill to do what they want, and let them do it no matter how good/bad it may be, because in the end they are going to have to deal with the consequces, even if the consequence is a reward.

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Avalon
No I don't agree with that, completely. I belive everyone has the freewill to do what they want, and let them do it no matter how good/bad it may be, because in the end they are going to have to deal with the consequces, even if the consequence is a reward.

That quote is from Aleister Crowley, founder of Thelema. He was sensationalized as the most evil man in the world. He died in 1947.

[Avalon]

Originally posted by Orgone_Man


That quote is from Aleister Crowley, founder of Thelema. He was sensationalized as the most evil man in the world. He died in 1947.

The quote itself isn't bad... its how one precieves it. An evil man will make it as "evil" as possible not knowing that there's always a flip side to things.

Even then... that's kinda f-ed up though.

[SuckMyPopadidge]

What is heaven like?? see for yourself

it happens every saturday at virtually every metropolis location in the world.. you would never know about it unless youve been too it.. and as a bonus, a few lucky visitors to heaven even get there own personal meeeting with god..:winamp: :winamp: :winamp:

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Avalon

Even then... that's kinda f-ed up though.

If you think thats f'ed up...

Mr. Crowley supposedly recieved that "golden rule" along with an entire tome of other cryptic writings and verses by having them "channeled" into him during some sort of meditation rite inside the great pyramid of Giza during the middle of the night around 1904.

[Xerxes]

Ohhh Brother. Pyramid power. 1904? Please. This thread has definitely taken a time travel trip to the 1980's.

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Xerxes
Ohhh Brother. Pyramid power. 1904? Please. This thread has definitely taken a time travel trip to the 1980's.

I know what you mean... Don't get me wrong, I don't buy into most things, but I do have an interest in esoterica... a hobby, so to speak.

[Avalon]

I don't know what esoterica means... but it seems interesting.

Even then, we still have those 1980 nuts around, what about "the world is comming to an end"... in 2000?

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Avalon
I don't know what esoterica means... but it seems interesting.



to sum it up, basically everything that you wouldn't want to talk about during lunch at work for fear of getting gawked at and possibly laid of later on for "cutback" reasons.


hehe... I'm just joking, I would never talk about stuff like that at work.:D

[duet maxwell]

Originally posted by J. Burnaway
What is your conception of heaven? It can be what you believe based on your religion, or what you think it should be to be worthy of the title, or what you are worried it will be that makes you not so excited to go. (Assume for the purpose of this thread that heaven does exist - arguing if it does or not is for another thread).

Is it a bunch of people playing harps?
Will you be able to "get some"?
Will you see all your friends and relatives?
Will you have to see all the people you didn't like when you were alive?
Do you get those cool halo things to wear to parties?
Do you get to meet God?

All these questions, and many more, will be answered by...

i liek the idea of heaven from teh movie "when dreams may come" with Robin Williams..:) :up:

[Shenlong]

Now Heaven would be a DJ
Spinnin’ dub all night long
And Heaven would be just kickin’ back
With Jesus packing my bong

OPM - Heaven Is A Half Pipe

:p

[Widdykats]

Heaven is my own cottage. Right out of Legend..sans trolls,demons,
an the ultimate boogey-person. Heaven has deserts that you eat and they make you even thinner..and all the animals are there {magically fed by "I don't know what"} And I'm still












<been a Long wait, long, very, don't ask, forget it>

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by Widdykats


<been a Long wait, long, very, don't ask, forget it>

So, miss widdy cats... care for a life on the high seas?

[Widdykats]

Originally posted by Orgone_Man


So, miss widdy cats... care for a life on the high seas?


I'm sorry you hurt your eye. Is it better?

[Widdykats]

You look like Cary Elwes!

[Avalon]

All of these pretty boys are making me feel like I'M in heaven....

waitaminute... did I just say that...? DO'H!!!

[Merlin]

Heaven is not only a place on Earth, but a fast food restaurant on Fiji. Also present would be horses, and a cat called Frankenstein.

[Widdykats]

Originally posted by [Merlin]
Heaven is not only a place on Earth, but a fast food restaurant on Fiji. Also present would be horses, and a cat called Frankenstein.

Is that from something..movie play..I said all animals, love horses I ride. Cat's name very good where is that from?

[Avalon]

Originally posted by [Merlin]
Heaven is not only a place on Earth, but a fast food restaurant on Fiji. Also present would be horses, and a cat called Frankenstein.

So why are Heaven and Church resturants, what's next "Welcome to Holy Spirit may I have your order?... uh, huh, that's a cruxification and a baptisim... $5.95, please drive up to the window. Thank you... come once again to Holy Spirit, I hope you enjoyed our service"

[Widdykats]

Fuck me, Red Dwarf? Wasn't familiar! Hitch Hiker"s Guide To The Galaxy...Mst3k, but not Red Dwarf! Is that it?







Frankenstein, the cat who mutates and has kittens, inbreeding,
half human etc...

[Orgone_Man]

holy jeez, this thread has turned.....bizarro

[I am Jesus]

All you guys are too young to know what heaven is really like.

[Widdykats]

Originally posted by I am Jesus
All you guys are too young to know what heaven is really like.
Phffft!:rolleyes:

[pixiefied]

guys...

<---- this is heaven.nuff' said :D

[Merlin]

Originally posted by Widdykats
Fuck me, Red Dwarf?
Hey hey! Somebody got the reference :D

I was watching the first series on DVD last week, that's why I remember it so clearly.

Yes, "The Cat" was a descendant of Lister's pet cat Frankenstein.
Quality show :D

[Widdykats]

Thank Mew...Merlin

[dirkdeftly]

i'm goin with the lords of acid theory: heaven is an orgasm.

[Sandman2012]

Heaven (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246677) is the title of a movie written by now deceased Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz, directed by Tom Tykwer, german auteur of Run Lola Run and The Princess And The Warrior (a personal favorite of mine). It stars Cate Blanchett (one of Hollywood's most beautiful women) and Giovanni Ribisi, and has a cast of mostly Italian actors (the film takes place in Italy). If you like "art-house" movies, it bears a look.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JKN0.01.MZZZZZZZ.gif

This post in loving memory of the Movie of the Week thread.