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Post by Redhunter on Apr 3, 2009 7:17:11 GMT -5
When I was about 9 or 10, I had asked my (Catholic) Mom If I would be allowed to play "Command & Conquer" (army pc game) up in heaven.. Her reply was as long as it wasn't violent.. I disliked the idea of Heaven ever since... Seeing as there was a "war in heaven" which only involved angels fighting each other in god's midst, I would think there is plenty of violence to be had!
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Post by Redhunter on Apr 3, 2009 7:21:28 GMT -5
What Star Cluster says. It would be unimaginably boring. I find repugnant the idea of being "happy" continuously. It is, quite literally, inhuman. If we were all perpetually happy here on earth each of us would have the personality of vanilla pudding.
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Post by m52nickerson on Apr 3, 2009 7:30:21 GMT -5
When I was about 9 or 10, I had asked my (Catholic) Mom If I would be allowed to play "Command & Conquer" (army pc game) up in heaven.. Her reply was as long as it wasn't violent.. I disliked the idea of Heaven ever since... Seeing as there was a "war in heaven" which only involved angels fighting each other in god's midst, I would think there is plenty of violence to be had! I'm I the only one picturing war in heaven playing out like an episode of Dragon Ball Z?
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Post by Sigmaleph on Apr 3, 2009 13:39:13 GMT -5
I'm I the only one picturing war in heaven playing out like an episode of Dragon Ball Z? Not anymore.
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Post by Oriet on Apr 4, 2009 4:39:38 GMT -5
Seeing as there was a "war in heaven" which only involved angels fighting each other in god's midst, I would think there is plenty of violence to be had! I'm I the only one picturing war in heaven playing out like an episode of Dragon Ball Z? Like Current said, not any more. That's some pretty fucking epic looking fight scenes too!
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Nightboomfer
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Post by Nightboomfer on Apr 4, 2009 5:28:55 GMT -5
Screw it. I'm making my own heaven. And it'll have blackjack. And hookers. In fact, screw the heaven.
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Post by Tiger on Apr 4, 2009 19:01:46 GMT -5
Screw it. I'm making my own heaven. And it'll have blackjack. And hookers. In fact, screw the heaven. Pastafarian heaven has a beer volcano and a stripper factory.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Apr 6, 2009 6:37:38 GMT -5
Screw it. I'm making my own heaven. And it'll have blackjack. And hookers. In fact, screw the heaven.[/quote Pastafarian heaven has a beer volcano and a stripper factory. RAmen to that - may the FSM (all power to His Noodly Appendage) keep you safe in the land of the infidel.
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Post by Hades on Apr 7, 2009 12:52:15 GMT -5
I'm thankful that there's no evidence for the existence of an afterlife. Honestly, the idea of living for eternity is a huge turn off. Sure, it'd be nice to go on for a few hundred more years at the most, learn everything I ever wanted to know. But there would ultimately come a time where I would be begging god to just obliterate my soul. I know the apologetic for this is "well time doesn't exist in eternity". Unless your memory is erased every so often, you're going to know that you've been around for a long time.
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Post by rookie on Apr 7, 2009 13:41:53 GMT -5
Unless your memory is erased every so often, you're going to know that you've been around for a long time. That was always the part that worried me. I mean, even if you brought a few books and an Ipod, and you were allowed to trade with everyone every so often, you would at one point read everything there is twice. Your playlists would get boring and you wouldn't want to listen to them anymore. And then YOU STILL HAVE ALL THE REST OF ETERNITY TO SIT THERE! I assume the above paragraph holds true for both heaven and hell. I think they would both suck big time. I think after a while, heaven and hell would become interchangeable. They would become the same thing. Both heaven and hell would have people you'd want to hang out with, not to mention some real dickwads.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 10, 2009 19:29:22 GMT -5
I'm not exactly sure I agree with the "eternity would suck" idea. It sounds bad, on paper, but to me, getting old sounds pretty bad too, yet I know that I'll have a different perspective later on in life.
Just a thought.
And Bluefinger, I know you hate the "what about the children argument," but you have to admit, getting shafted like that would suck, if there wasn't an afterlife.
Oh, and on the DBZ War in Heaven: LMFAO! I'm just picturing ridiculously fluffed up, golden wings. None of 'em can move because of it, and they just have to keep firin' eye-beams back & forth.
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Post by Bluefinger on Apr 10, 2009 19:36:34 GMT -5
And Bluefinger, I know you hate the "what about the children argument," but you have to admit, getting shafted like that would suck, if there wasn't an afterlife. It would suck, but I reason that the concept of an afterlife would do little to motivate us to fix the crap situations these kids get into. If they have an afterlife to go to, why bother?Knowing that without an afterlife, it becomes imperative that we do our damnedest to do our bit to make sure shit doesn't happen to these kids. Of course, some shit is unavoidable and tragic, BUT, for the shit that is avoidable and can be dealt with, there is no excuse and the whole "oh think about the children!" argument should be used to make sure such situations never arise as opposed to proliferating a concept that cannot be shown to be true. THAT is why I hate the argument.
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