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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 12:44 PM
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What are the main differences between the heavenly garden and the world we are familiar with?
Edited on Mon Oct-05-09 12:46 PM by Boojatta
I mean other than the fact that, in the world we are familiar with, a man may become the husband of at most four virgin brides during one Muslim wedding ceremony.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 12:52 PM
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1. I would hope there are no flies or mosquitoes in the heavenly garden
and the heavenly BBQ never runs out of propane.
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 01:21 PM
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6. Or insurance companies...
although bloodsuckers and traders in poop abound there.
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Withywindle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 02:38 AM
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10. As C.S. Lewis once observed,
a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for humans could be very conveniently combined.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 12:57 PM
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2. Ownership society & exploited labor pool of gardners?
;)
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 12:58 PM
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3. One is real, one is just silly superstition.
I'll let you figure which is which.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 01:03 PM
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4. What definition of "superstition" are you using?
Edited on Mon Oct-05-09 01:05 PM by Boojatta
An example of an attempt to define the word "superstition"

Perhaps you have a link to an alternative definition that you prefer?
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 02:50 PM
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7. You mean the world we are familiar with is superstition?
Wow, that explains quite a lot! Thanks!

;-)
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 01:20 PM
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5. peanut butter
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 02:51 PM
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8. And strawberry jam.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-05-09 04:31 PM
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9. In one you live forever, in the other you die after a variable amount of time...
...or so I've been told.

If true, the question becomes one of how much eternity is too much? If, as I've been told, someone in heaven lives forever, how long until that eternity becomes unbearable and how long until such concepts of paradise cease to have meaning?
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