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The Way I See It # 230 – “Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can’t wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but Heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than Hell” – Joel Stein, columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Well, for 17th century people, heaven meant a release from a chancy existence, where one could never been sure of the next moment. Wealth and power might mask this, but reality kept breaking through. But isn't that all still true? And, anyway, what wass the vison of heaven that ther mystics showed us? It was to be within the presence of God and perfect certainty and god-like powers. Medieval theologians had a very different conception of the physical universe than we, so theirt imagination was more limited. I myself think of having the powers of, say. "Q" from Startrek, but without his childishness. That is, if I make it. Hell, would like like the equally fictional notion of a black hole.