Donatus

I of course am awaiting the time that I arrive in heaven after my earthly death. Heaven will NOT be a boring place, as depicted by cartoons or the media. In heaven, you will lose any and all urge to commit a sin, and you will do whatever you enjoy, whenever. Of course everything in heaven is going to be free from sin, you don't have to worry about missing sinful things either. Heaven is a place of infinite joy, in the presence of God.

Astreja

If Heaven and Hell actually exist, I have made a conscious decision to go to Hell as a protest against the very existence of the place.

romansh

I'm just curious as to why people keep focussing their anwers on a theistic version of heaven? I understand that was the intention/spirit of the original post. But I am surprised so many agnostics are happy to anthropomorphise god and comment on heaven (and hell in other posts)?

I'm sorry ... to me this is strange?

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Skepticologist

You're right on target, Romansh. Bottom line is none of us has any substantive evidence for the existence of a God, so how could we possibly have any substantive evidence for the existence of a heaven or a hell or, for that matter, any kind of afterlife. We've never had any communication with anyone who's been there, unless we've been sufficiently drunk or otherwise spaced out to have bought into some mamby-pamby spouted forth by some self-acknowledged seer in the back room of a small house whose front windows are festooned with neon signs.

So it really doesn't matter whether one's concept of heaven is a city four-square with gates of pearl and streets if gold, or eternal mad sex with 70 virgins (by the way, what's the Muslim woman's view of heaven? I've never heard of any references in the Q'uran about 70 young studs.) In the absence of any substantive evidence, it's all fantasy and myth; and discussing variations on whatever myth one happens to subscribe to is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.

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