View Single Post
Old 05-18-2008, 06:27 PM   #115 (permalink)
Legal lies
Old School
 
Legal lies's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: C'ville
Posts: 1,177
Thanks: 13
Thanked 18 Times in 15 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by JcP View Post
^^ I think eternal bliss is the equivalent of hell. A couple millenia of bliss would rock! Imagine existing continually as you for all of eternity. Holy shit. Talk about hell.

Unless eternal bliss is code for "whatever you want," I think it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. If you aren't able to experience anything but one thing for all of eternity, I think around year eight zillion or so, you'd suddenly realize heaven isn't heaven.
Eternal anything has to include the ability to experience "other" or I'm not game.

Maybe it's just the eve in me talking. If you know what I'm getting at. :-)
I think I know exactly what you're getting at, but I think I disagree. You're thinking that you'd be unhappy after a certain point of time because you want variety. Normally, when we don't have variety we become unhappy and we want something to break up our routines. With eternal bliss, however, you are always happy, ipso facto. A lack of variety would not matter if you are really in eternal bliss. And just because you're always happy doesn't mean everything has to stay the same all the time. Heaven can accommodate variety and eternal bliss.
__________________
Stop the brainwashing!

'The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be'.-Douglas Adams

The only thing I'm afraid of is fear.-legal lies

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Legal lies is offline   Reply With Quote