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You die and you discover an afterlife. By sheer coincidence, or not, it's what you hoped it would be. What is it?
What's your heaven?
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Berzerker
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Heaven is a place that was once joined together with the primordial Earth, they were separated before land and life appeared and Heaven now forms a circle - a hammered-out bracelet - around the small, rocky planets. It can be visualized as a serpent devouring its tail or a celestial dragon. The Lost Red Paint people of the NE Atlantic coast left behind rock art maybe ~7,000 years old showing a stick figure man next to a star with a serpent on the other side forming a half circle around the man and star. I believe that was how they saw Heaven.
The Maya and Toltec believed Heaven was layered, 13 levels altogether with the creator god occupying 2 levels. The #13 also played a role in Incan cosmology with their creator (Viracocha) appearing as an ellipse surrounded by 11 celestial bodies.
The #9 was of significance too, Viracocha joins (or separates) 2 groups of celestial objects numbering 4 and 5. And yet around the time of Christ the Nascans depicted their creator (in the form of a monkey) peering down between his hands with 4 and 5 digits. The #9 also shows up in the architecture of Chichen Itza (El Castillo has 9 levels with a temple for the creator on top), these represent the 9 "Lord of the Night".
From Dante to Yggdrasil and Siberian shaman to the new world, 9 is of celestial importance. I dont know what happens after death, could be just worm food or maybe reincarnation or release from this plane of existence, but Heaven is a place and according to various scriptures, its a place the living may visit with God's blessing and help, not the dead.
Oh yeah, the Sumerians depicted our solar system on a 4,000+ years old cylinder seal (VA 243) - a star surrounded by 11 celestial objects. This matches up with their creation story now known as the Enuma Elish, it describes the appearance of 10 gods before Marduk (Babylonian version of the creator) slays and dismembers Tiamat to form Heaven and Earth.
The Maya and Toltec believed Heaven was layered, 13 levels altogether with the creator god occupying 2 levels. The #13 also played a role in Incan cosmology with their creator (Viracocha) appearing as an ellipse surrounded by 11 celestial bodies.
The #9 was of significance too, Viracocha joins (or separates) 2 groups of celestial objects numbering 4 and 5. And yet around the time of Christ the Nascans depicted their creator (in the form of a monkey) peering down between his hands with 4 and 5 digits. The #9 also shows up in the architecture of Chichen Itza (El Castillo has 9 levels with a temple for the creator on top), these represent the 9 "Lord of the Night".
From Dante to Yggdrasil and Siberian shaman to the new world, 9 is of celestial importance. I dont know what happens after death, could be just worm food or maybe reincarnation or release from this plane of existence, but Heaven is a place and according to various scriptures, its a place the living may visit with God's blessing and help, not the dead.
Oh yeah, the Sumerians depicted our solar system on a 4,000+ years old cylinder seal (VA 243) - a star surrounded by 11 celestial objects. This matches up with their creation story now known as the Enuma Elish, it describes the appearance of 10 gods before Marduk (Babylonian version of the creator) slays and dismembers Tiamat to form Heaven and Earth.
Berzerker
Deity
Maybe life is kinda like a test, not that I'd be getting a passing grade, but the goal is experience and all the time in the world to get it. When we've reached "enlightenment" we move on to another plane of existence.
maybe...
maybe...
timtofly
One Day
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There is no time in heaven. Experience without end?
Perfection
The Great Head.
Hell for everyone else 
Berzerker
Deity
Heaven was made on the 3rd day so time does exist
and the world will end, and thus ends the experience
Darkflight
Prince
I hope that there is no afterlife, so the question doesn't really work for me.
Borachio
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But why would you hope that? That's a bit like hoping there's no Santa.
I really don't know what heaven could be like.
Whenever I think about it, it just turns into some kind of utopia. So... somewhere with an absence of suffering, I guess.
However, heaven is probably nothing like our experience on earth at all. (If it does exist. Which is highly dubious, imo. Though who knows?)
Snerk
Smeghead
If there's ridable dragons then I'm a happy camper. And I'm not even joking. I love horseback riding but riding an animal that could fly would be pure bliss. So there would have to be some of that in my heaven.
Snerk
Smeghead
That just sounds like exercise to me.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I transcend into Glob World and my individual earth-conciousness will go all over everywhere while Glob tallies my deeds. I'm gonna be all around you; in your nose and your dreams and socks. I'll be a part of you and your earth-mind.
And for the record, this really is what I would hope will happen. Eternity as a finite human minds seems pretty horrifying, tbh.)
And for the record, this really is what I would hope will happen. Eternity as a finite human minds seems pretty horrifying, tbh.)
CavLancer
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