"Heaven" isn't boring?: Suppose this universe is something for god to do, as you said.
E.g., Mirdad's "Wheel of Time." He illustrates it like a ring, with people/stuff injected anywhere and everywhere. All over this visible universe and well beyond. Time merely being a feature that is completely nonprogressive, even though it appears so. Actually, that's a lil different point, but the same.
Anyway, the thing about boring is, when you step to the center of the wheel of time, or "go to heaven" or yadda, it isn't boring. That's a thing we're maybe assuming (duh). It's a natural assumption. Mine too. Really. But as explained to me, that concept is incredibly naive. (I admit sharing it. I've written that several times. How can a heaven be appealing to all the different culturats on a zillion earths? Or even one?)
But it's a limited human worry, so they say, because it's nothing like that. It's literally never boring, and operates on principles so different from ours that the concepts don't apply. Sort of "wrong question."
And again, these worries are apparently quasi-universal, and that's why most Indian philosophy (I'm aware of) addresses them.
It will be perpetually satisfying; the newness of satisfaction never decreases, it is ever fresh. Now how is this possible? Don't ask me; I'm one of us. But it's what they consistently say. So I try to enlarge myself to it. It's a very peculiar thing to "imagine". We cannot enjoy things constantly. It's not wired in us. We tire of everything.
But suppose what they're saying is true. It's said consistently, so it behooves to suppose; to contemplate. Just postulate it, and we see how peculiar it is. Yah, it is. But it doesn't mean it isn't accurate and beyond us.
We assume we are able to see everything that can be explained to us, experienced by anyone, anywhere, if someone just does it right. What if we're really stupid and inadequate for the task?
They might say ever-fresh because there is no time. ("Well, then it's going to be all the same; ever the same. A miserable Ground Hog moment." "No. It's nothing like that.")
They may say "Not this, not this, not this."
(What the hell?)
It's a capacity problem. They say. Ours.
I assume I can generalize with "they", because how else can you do it.
They say, it's a gas, without a doubt, and you would never rather be here. |
