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Visions Of Heaven?
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I note that Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon who recently achieved some measure of fame from claiming that, during a coma he was in, he visited heaven, rode on the back of a giant butterfly, met an angelic blue-eyed girl, and that heaven was an "immense void,completely dark, infinite in size,yet also infinitely comforting"
He even wrote a book about it - Proof Of Heaven, and now I hear it is being turned into a made for TV movie at some point.
So, it set me to thinking - for those that believe in a heaven, how do you imagine it will be? I would have all sorts of questions - stuff like where does everyone live? Do you have your own house? is it set on a cloud? Do you need to eat? When meeting friends and relatives who have died, are they incarnated as how you remember them from memory, or are they as they would like to be? Or is everyone just some sort of energy cloud?
This is not designed to mock - I am genuinely interested in what peoples visions of heaven might be, and whether any of those questions I mentioned are addressed in your visions.....
He even wrote a book about it - Proof Of Heaven, and now I hear it is being turned into a made for TV movie at some point.
So, it set me to thinking - for those that believe in a heaven, how do you imagine it will be? I would have all sorts of questions - stuff like where does everyone live? Do you have your own house? is it set on a cloud? Do you need to eat? When meeting friends and relatives who have died, are they incarnated as how you remember them from memory, or are they as they would like to be? Or is everyone just some sort of energy cloud?
This is not designed to mock - I am genuinely interested in what peoples visions of heaven might be, and whether any of those questions I mentioned are addressed in your visions.....
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Good Question LazyGun, I'm a believer in the afterlife myself and to tell you the truth I never really thought about how it would be.
The things I have thought about are the negative ones, like meeting up with family and people you never want to see again, or even just meetimg up with people.....I'm a bit of a loner and like to be alone most of the time, what awaits people like me there I wonder.
The things I have thought about are the negative ones, like meeting up with family and people you never want to see again, or even just meetimg up with people.....I'm a bit of a loner and like to be alone most of the time, what awaits people like me there I wonder.
Now correct me if I misunderstand this, but heaven is supposed to be all the things you love and hell all the things you hate the most right?
So, seeing as I absolutely, definitely will be going to hell I think I'm going to be sitting on a cloud playing a harp for eternity.
Unless I'm with people I love in a pub where you're all just a nice amount of drunk with a band playing and you can smoke indoors...oh, and there's free food...I don't fancy it much.
So, seeing as I absolutely, definitely will be going to hell I think I'm going to be sitting on a cloud playing a harp for eternity.
Unless I'm with people I love in a pub where you're all just a nice amount of drunk with a band playing and you can smoke indoors...oh, and there's free food...I don't fancy it much.
@PW Glad you made it through your experience, obviously. You were in a coma, but experienced pain? I had not thought that would be possible. Must have been horrible.
@Gran I think it was a philosopher, may Satre who said something like " Hell is other people". I think there are a lot of people for whom that expression might hold true :)
It is interesting, how many different visions there are of heaven. For some its an experience, excorporate; For others, something more analogous to an (un) earthly paradise. Its the little details I find interesting though...
@Society Thanks for the input.Its interesting how different peoples visions can be..
@Gran I think it was a philosopher, may Satre who said something like " Hell is other people". I think there are a lot of people for whom that expression might hold true :)
It is interesting, how many different visions there are of heaven. For some its an experience, excorporate; For others, something more analogous to an (un) earthly paradise. Its the little details I find interesting though...
@Society Thanks for the input.Its interesting how different peoples visions can be..