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Originally Posted by davem
I suppose. But I'm not sure I'd want to live outside 'our human frame of referrence' for any length of time. The 'glimpses' are fascinating, but I suppose I'm just too much of a Hobbit. This is where the funny stuff is, the homely stuff, the sit-coms, the books, the nights in with a beer & a video.
Or maybe I'm just getting too old for 'Adventures'  |
Do you want to know what you reminded me of, Davem, while I was at choir practice tonight? (A frivolous fact, that, but I felt like pointing out that I was thinking about this thread when I should have been concentrating on better and more profitable things. Ah well, time well wasted...) Anyway, here it is...
Your attitude towards the afterlife really reminds me of being about age 8. Not with regards to the afterlife- I don't think that ever bothered me one way or antother- but with regards to "growing up".
When I was young, say anytime before I was "grown up" (yes, that sounds just a LITTLE funny coming from a 19-year-old), whenever I seriously pondered "what's it going to be like as adult?" I was scared stiff. I didn't WANT to grow up. I was scared of having to drive, having to pay bills, having to live on my own. For that matter, having to go up the till and pay for groceries on my own scared me.
But, now that I
am grown up, does any of that scare me? None of that stuff does. And for good reason too, for I am no longer a child (geezer though I have yet to become). The things that a child cannot do or would fine hard and strange to do are natural now. The thought of living on my own, so terrifying to a child, is now liberating.
And I am inclined to believe that the Afterlife shall be the same. Of course it can scare us right now. We are not "old" enough yet (ie. we aren't dead). Until such time as we pass from this life, it is natural for us to consider the Earth home, and to not want to move out. But the time will come for each of us, at a time that is right for each of us, to "move out".
And just as I no longer wish to go back to being a child, not seriously, having experienced life as an adult- not wanting to go back to the immaturity, weakness, and inexperience of a child- I do not think that, when we are in Heaven, we shall find it less than, or worse than, the Earth. It shall be different-- and yet better and the same.
As an example, when I was little, I was a big LEGO fan. I dreaded the day that would come when I would no longer enjoy it, when all those hours of "meaningful" play would no longer interest me at all.
Well, guess what? I've grown up, and my LEGO is still my favourite hobby. In the same way, I think we'll find a lot more of what we have here will be there- we just may not see it the same way.