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Tevai
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Date: January 10, 2020 11:13PM
The question postulates that "heaven" exists--which I don't believe, for at least a couple of reasons.
1) "Heaven," as a concept, would entail the lifeforce, or "energy," [I don't know a better word to use] of a/all specific lifeform(s) to be sequestered away, after death, from the rest of the lifeforce, or "energy," of the universe....so every death would result in a reduction in total [energy or whatever]. This would be akin to digging up some valuable commodity (diamonds or emeralds, rare earths, petroleum, etc.), and then re-burying that commodity in a less accessible place than it was in when you found it. [I do realize that every new birth would simultaneously increase energy in the universe, but you need to ask: where was that energy before that entity was born? It had to come from somewhere--so where would that "somewhere" BE?]
2) "Heaven" does not accord with my own memories of what occurred in the interim between my immediate LAST life and THIS life. What I experienced (and what I remember, quite vividly--all things considered) is that I was in some unknown to me, but VERY comfortable, and favorable in every way, "place"--just floating around, feeling safe and warm and cared for....and that experience was also "interesting," too--though I can't explain why. It was a very, VERY nice darkness, which I found quite interesting (mostly, to me, it was NOT cold--and this meant a great deal to me at that particular time)--and then, at some point, I "opened my eyes" and I was in a crib (which I initially misinterpreted as a cage of some kind), in a room I did not recognize, in a place unknown to me, and there was this obviously very nice, but strange to me, woman who came in the room and began chatting with me--though I didn't understand what she was saying (I assumed it was really awful Dutch, because I could understand the meaning even if I didn't quite understand the words--but it was actually American English). And thus began my present life, from the viewpoint of my own consciousness of this life.
I think that all "animal" life (which includes us, and probably all of our cells, etc. as well) has some kind of "consciousness" which carries over....past death--from life, to life.
To me, the concept of "heaven" is unbelievable, and I have always felt this way (since early childhood, when the WORD "heaven" became part of my vocabulary). When the word was explained to me, and as I grew in understanding, the concept became more and more unbelievable to me.
Today, and to me, especially as an adult, the concept of heaven is roughly on the same level of believability as is Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
I do think there is purpose in life, and that however that purpose/energy/lifeforce may be expressed in any particular person/entity's experience, it certainly does not end with death.
And "heaven," as I understand the concept, would be nothing more than an endless, ostensibly eternal, warehousing of whatever ["energy," etc.] it is that--here on Earth--makes the difference between a live body and a body which is deceased.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2020 11:24PM by Tevai.