| Posted: 11 February 2019 at 9:02am | IP Logged | 9
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ITEM: I'm not an expert on Heaven or Hell (being Jewish, I don't think we even have a concept of Hell), but I long assumed that if Hell is eternal torment, then Heaven is eternal pleasure. If sitting on a cloud playing a lyre s your idea of eternal pleasure, that's swell. But I know many people whose idea of eternal pleasure is to be in a city of casinos, blackjack or poker 24 hours a day, where they always win. Restaurants that constantly have an open table for them with interesting company and their favorite dish already prepared. Hot and cold running blondes and redheads available at a moment's notice. It would indeed paradise.
Until they got weary of it. I figured much the same aspect of that to Hell... no matter what the tortures, I feel that eventually, one would be accustomed to them, and could never suffer worse. It would be commonplace.
Ultimately, the "appeal" of Heaven over Hell is merely that in one, a person would share God's presence... and in the other, one couldn't. That's about the point where I concluded that this Heaven/Hell business is kinda sketchy.
ITEM: I considered that we have doctors and nurses, researchers, technicians, et. al., who have found ways to postpone death. Thanks to their efforts, we live longer on average now than we ever have.
But no one's ever made inroads on slowing down aging. Even replacement joints, eating healthy, regular exercise, and artificial body parts don't stop or slow aging... they just make it more tolerable.
Then I went back to dreaming about poker, restaurants, and hot and cold running redheads.
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