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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Heaven and Hell

says Wikipedia

the word
Heave a load (e.g. Sisyphus).  Heave (vomit).  heaven as heaving
Hen ave.  (the road where the chickens are?)
Space, "The Heavens" (plural)
rhymes with seven and leaven
and Devan, and revvin' (your engine)
ave (as in ave Maria), hen (as in Hennessy)(or a dirt bath)
   heaven as praising the earth, your infinite home (after death)

also, a synonym for Paradise (pair of dice?), Utopia (heaven on earth)
The Kingdom (on earth as it is in Heaven)
the absence of suffering (associated with death)

also, I just read:
from Wikipedia, on 'firmament'
The ancient, scientifically disproven and absurd, concept IS Heaven!!
So, there is no (biblical) heaven, apparently

although there are plenty of alternative conceptions:
Afterlife can be conceived in many ways: on earth (immortality, like a vampire), a perfect new world on earth (like the JW's envision (-Jehovah's Witnesses), eternal life in heaven (soul migrating to another world, in space presumably, like in the movie Avatar, or maybe Jesus, on another planet), your dna (children) that live on after you die, your art or ideas (that persist, even after your body is gone), or your dust itself (if not alive, then perhaps "pushing up daisies" or food for insects), or "born again" as rebirth, in the sense of starting over, a new chapter in your life, or reincarnation in your next life, whether conceived of as Hindu, or Buddhist (cycle of samsaric suffering, sss), as a human if you're lucky, or an animal if you've been a bad boy (!), or your artwork (such as books, or music, or sculpture, or paintings, etc.), or "the conservation of matter" (your body and blood, your bones and brain, ashes to ashes, dust to dust), the "persistence of memory," giving you life as long as you are remembered (like in the animated movie Coco)...

Paradise is a town in California.  Heavenly is a ski resort (also in California).

Hell is (I already wrote a post about everything I could think of)
But one of the definitions is The Place of the Dead (so we're all headed there)
(nothing to be afraid of!): oblivion, nullibiety, non-existence
Hell is also a village in Norway.
Suffering, like Jesus on the cross, the passion.
    (paint, couch, touch: pain, ouch)
"you got to go to hell before you get to heaven" sings a (rock) song-
Just like how sexual passion can result in the pain of childbirth.
holy orders, sacred sequences

Please click the 'firmament' link.
If you believe the Bible is unerring, the word of God, this may prove enlightening.
(And how will Today's scientific understanding/paradigm be upended in ANOTHER thousand years (or two)??)

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