What will you choose for Heaven to be like?

As with all wishes - one should simply say 'Whatever is best!'. Alternatively if she got mad and insisted on a choice with the assurity that it would be for the best then I would choose a serene buddhist temple.

ever changing - i will choose every moment and when i am tired of choosing, it will continue on being chosen by default, and i will leave an opt out, in case i ever get tired, it can go away or i can go away

I'd let God choose. After all, he's God, so he knows the subject far better than I do!

I'd probably say something like, well, I want it to be ahppy and nice and pretty, and you can decide the rest.

I want heaven to be Middle-earth! (Or "Blue" if M.e. isn't available). And I want to live there for eternity with all the characters and all the other Tolkienites who go there too

A 24 hour all you can eat restaurant/karaoke bar with all male waiters, chefs and buspeople, buff and glistening, naked from the waist up. All the patrons are wonderful bawdy females or delightful gay men, eating drinking and laughing, pinching the waiters bums and thoroughly enjoying themselves. There's a big backroom full of comfy beds and sofas and chairs for orgies and such.

Well, I don't believe in heaven, but it's a nice thought. I'd like it if there were lots of animals and lots of friendly people. You know- full of love and stuff? And lots of Italian food.

Rustic, pastoral...a natural setting. Nothing bad...lots of happy people enjoying themselves in a wholesome kind of way...

That's just for me of course. I believe that everyone winds up in a place or situation which is very much like what they expect. If you think that you have been a bad person...well, that might not be so pleasant...

One permananent holiday in Lindos. During the 2nd hottest week of the year.

A friend recently posed me this question which was my inspiration for this survey

I told him something along these lines.....

I'd want to be somewhere that there were plenty of things left to do. Scientific discoveries that I could make using basic lab equipment. Mountains to climb that had never been climbed before. Places that had never been explored and that no maps existed for. I'd like there to be old ruined castles and forts where I could organise arachaeological digs and be able to put all my finds into my own museum.

I'd have to have access to books - factual, fictional, poetry, prose.....and the internet (and SC!) and a television with a vcr so that I could watch Babylon 5 and my other favourite shows

But most importantly, there would have to be people. I couldn't be happy without friends. people that I could love and that would love me.


Unfortunately, I think that there are lots of loopholes in what I've just written. I could end up with a rather scary Heaven!

I wonder if the people that were there with me would be real. Surely everyone would want their own reality for Heaven so there would be no-one but me in mine. But part of mine would have to be the people........it's complicated!

exactly like it is, but a little bit better.

You see you got me thinking about this yesterday. How real would it all be. Would it be like the Matrix or something. And also is this the basis of Buddhist philosophy when they say that 'Life is an Illlusion'.
So say you were traditional and you asked to be with your family. And God said 'There you go love - through that door there' and you walked through it and there they were. How real is that gonna be?
You really got my head spinning.

*shouts* Hey Kristal any thoughts!

i don't believe in heaven no option for that

It was a hypothetical question. You're actually standing in front of God when he asks you! Believe me, it would come as a bit of a shock to me as well

I guess I didnt read it well enough. I don't believe in god either hmmmmm wonder how that would work. He would say "Hi I'm GOD" And I would say "quit pulling my leg"

I think I'd just be gobsmacked! I'd probably think I was dreaming

When you think about it - I would do that too. I would stand there and say 'er...I'm not too sure I believe in you'. Is that sensible?

I'd remind Him that dead means dead and ask Him to kill me properly. No Heaven, no hell, no afterlife. Just silent, peaceful, eternal death.

I think so. Unless when you were in the presence of God, you'd just *know* that you were.

Aaaah, sounds nice

surrounded by a bunch of good looking women, and have lots of hot sex.

no wait, never mind, become a good looking women surrounded by guys. since women get to have multiple orgasms and stuff. or ask god that i'd be androdegous, and be surrounded by both, and just pick out people like from a menu. oh yeah, all the people that i knew would be there too. they can have some too. oh yeah, and everyone will more of less like the same type of music that i listen to and think very similar to me. but not exactly like me, that way it wouldn't be boring.

oh, i that i have internet access so i can still be logged on to survey central.

I hope I will be able to see and talk to my dad, my grandparents, and other deceased relatives and friends. I am sure God will choose a setting much better than anything I could come up with.

I will sit him down and have a philosophical debate. He's all powerful, all knowing, all seeing. He has all the time he needs, as time is meaningless. I'll tell him to make Heaven me and him talking until I convince him to let me transcend to a state of nondual Oneness with the entirety of the Kosmos. That and, I really want to know what motivates someone who is all powerful, all knowing, all seeing, all present, etc, etc. If he was bored (which is a human motivation, with it's base in human faults), he would have excitement in unlimited quantities, just like that. And are we arrogant enough to say that someone that powerful would want to emulate the "love" that can be generated by a clump of neurons? And even if it was out of love, he'd already know that everything was going to happen as it would, and that knowledge would be enough. The only thing I can think of to motivate an all powerful being is the challenge of destroying himself. But I digress.

any job openings??

Where do i fill out an application?

Just die and head for the Pearly Gates. Ask for Mandy. You'll be directed to my place and given an apron and a G-String.

Ok then, i am going to start eating junk food stuffed into a microwave, and staring at my computer screen absorbing radiation, just so i get to the Pearly Gates a lot quicker.

Not wait, that will make me look really fat, and i won't be as good to you anymore then. But then again, i am sure that "god" will make everyone look a lot different than they were in thier human form. Of cousre then people could just ask for a sex change if they wanted too. That could be arrenged, also. Oh never mind then. But i could then become one of your bawdy buddies.

Owwh, pizza's ready!!! love to talk more, but goto go.

Heaven is a place on earth for me. (didn't mean to quote an 80's pop song) I guess I'd just wan't to live another life -- but a better one, the thought of doing and being in the same "happy" place for eternity is depressing. I don't really believe in heaven any ways, but I took part in the survey

HELLO KRISTAL! Are you there? I've been wondering what your answer is gonna be for this one.

That would be the first thing i would say then i would say that i want to be with my german shepard (Duke) again!!!!!!!!!

i would ask god to make heaven filled with fellas that have nice bodies and to do whatever i want them to do then i want it to be comfortable have my own personal space where i can relax and be by myself and just watch over my family and friends and those who come to heaven will come join me in my domain

I think I would like it to be middle-earth. And I would live with all the charaters (except for the bad guys like Sauron and Sauramon and the orcs.) And I would demand God to make me an Elf! And I'd probably meet confetti there to! Oh yes and Gullom would be my pet , and I would have homes in: The Shire, Rivendell, Minas Tirith, The Forest of Fangorn, (where Treebeard would be able to take me places very quikly!) Rohan, and Isengard. That would be wonderful!!



Oh yes my precios...GOLLUM, GOLLUM!

How about a feeling? I don't know what comes after death, but I like to think that whatever happens you always have a feeling of inner peace.

I think a lot of people have a similar idea of heaven - that it's more of a state of mind than anything else

So true.

I think I'd ask god to send me back. As much as paradise sounds great, I'm not so sure I could live without those I love. I also have a problem with the concept of equal love. I don't want to love someone I barely know as much as I loved my mother or husband. I think I'd want another chance at the same life. I'd want to be genuinely happy. Not to mention, you can't have good without bad. It's one of those unwritten laws. I'm not saying that I'm a masochist, but we need the bad days to make the good ones look better. I like real life...(sort've).

Actauly, there would be bad guys, and the good people that fought, would never be hurt or be killed.

I'll take whatever I get.

Everyone gets along with everyone else and everyone is always happy, no matter what because sadness, sorrow, depression, sickness, and pain won't exist!

My God's not male, but leaving that to one side:
My Heaven would be a peaceful earth. Everything just like earth, in terms of natural beauty and people, but no war, no greed, no racism.... I would let God choose, but since God is omniscient, it would be what I would be most happy with anyway.

i'd come back to this world to continue the work of compassion

I want to play in the eternal football game.

I think I wouldn't know what to "ask" for if I was really standing before "god". I mean eyes have not seen nor has entered into the hearts of man what "god" has in store for those who love "him". But for fun... I will be grateful for the abolishment of time. I'm rooting for the abolishment of space too (meaning matter).

*knock*
   May I be in your heaven?

   By the way, did you like the picture I sent you?

I think I said that I wanted lots of wonderful people in heaven? So of course I'd want you there! That picture was lovely I'm sorry I didn't reply, but I'm barely scraping half an hour on the net a day at the moment - stupid exams! Soon they'll be done. Who did the picture for you? Or is it a self-portrait?

   It was made in Moscow by a professional painter who catches tourists who want their pictures in a street (I hope you understand my explanation). Next week I'm going to take more photos and post them there as well

I look forward to seeing them!

I want heaven to be like a town with shops where everything is free and lots of people who are all nice to each other, friends and family past and watching the real world on television.

God dosen't let people that still sin in to Heaven the only people that he does allow into heaven are the one thats have placed there trust in Him *Jesus christ* & that have repented of there sins & choice to follow Gods word & plan for there lifes no matter what the costs.

My heaven may look a bit like the Hell. YOu know, booze, stiripper (both male and female, you know I am trying to make it work for everyne), many cool people. And then a separate room from all that party, with a computer that has the Internet so I can log-on to the Survey Central

Anything without SC is hell.