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Mar. 23rd, 2006 01:26 pmSomething i've been randomly thinking about, after looking around at the nice and clean hotel room without being able to make a mess for a bit too long.
People talk about heaven and hell. As one being a place of suffering and pain, and the other being a "perfect" place. Then people use the argument when trying to push religions that i should do x and y because i want to go to heaven instead of hell. But honestly, so far, i can't see how heaven is supposed to interest me.
If it's perfect, what is there to do. What is the point of being there.
If it's "your own version of perfect", to me it would be "unlimited potential". But then, what's the point, if it's just my own version of it. Yeah, things can be done, fixed, improved, but it becomes just another "matrix" type scenario. Where it's totally pointless, since none of it is really real, and the "lower level" reality for anyone else.
The only way i could see it being interesting would be if it was more like "life, level 2". But then, it wouldn't be heaven anymore. And i'd have no reason to force myself to act differently to get there, if all i'd get there is to be forced to live in a way that isn't mine for much longer.
But yeah, not really something i believe in to start with. I still have a problem with souls too, can't fit it in any of the "models" i have. But blah to that.
And on a totally unrelated topics, trains can really confuse me. I was sitting in a Metra train going toward downtown. The train was shaking, i was seeing things that i thought we were passing by from the corner of the eye. Then i heard "Door closing now.", which made me really wonder what was going on. Then i finally realised we were still in the station, and just had a train driving by us in the opposite direction. I probably would have noticed if i hadn't been looking only at the screen, but now it was really a WTF-type moment. I was sure that we were moving.
People talk about heaven and hell. As one being a place of suffering and pain, and the other being a "perfect" place. Then people use the argument when trying to push religions that i should do x and y because i want to go to heaven instead of hell. But honestly, so far, i can't see how heaven is supposed to interest me.
If it's perfect, what is there to do. What is the point of being there.
If it's "your own version of perfect", to me it would be "unlimited potential". But then, what's the point, if it's just my own version of it. Yeah, things can be done, fixed, improved, but it becomes just another "matrix" type scenario. Where it's totally pointless, since none of it is really real, and the "lower level" reality for anyone else.
The only way i could see it being interesting would be if it was more like "life, level 2". But then, it wouldn't be heaven anymore. And i'd have no reason to force myself to act differently to get there, if all i'd get there is to be forced to live in a way that isn't mine for much longer.
But yeah, not really something i believe in to start with. I still have a problem with souls too, can't fit it in any of the "models" i have. But blah to that.
And on a totally unrelated topics, trains can really confuse me. I was sitting in a Metra train going toward downtown. The train was shaking, i was seeing things that i thought we were passing by from the corner of the eye. Then i heard "Door closing now.", which made me really wonder what was going on. Then i finally realised we were still in the station, and just had a train driving by us in the opposite direction. I probably would have noticed if i hadn't been looking only at the screen, but now it was really a WTF-type moment. I was sure that we were moving.
