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Status: Married
Age: 24
Sign: Gemini

City: MandaLand
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/10/2005

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March 21, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  numb
Category: Religion and Philosophy
I was talking to my brother today about funny things that happened in our memories with someone that we loved who passed away today and I had questioned whether or not he thinks that the person who died can listen in on our conversations from heaven and laugh with us. He said probably. Then he said he requested her to say hi to someone else in heaven for him when she died. I wondered if heaven was really like that. Can souls in heaven hear you? Can they hear eachother?

It's a hard subject to think about just because heaven is most likely beyond our understanding. As humans, we can't help but humanize everything and make it material like the world we already live in. That's why when people say they think heaven is rainbows, clouds and castles, I think they might be wrong. I don't know much about souls or the supernatural but I've been thinking that maybe when we die, we might not be individual souls. I wonder if maybe we become one with every soul who ever died. Maybe we die and join the other souls and gain knowledge memories from every one of them as one being. I guess the reason why I thought that may be the case is because it's hard for me to think about heaven in a humanized way were theres a land and all the souls can talk to eachother, cause there's just too many of them.

If it was place, than I think it'd be pretty hard to go around searching for your family members and stuff who died in the past right? It'd be easier if you died and became one with your family and everyone else, then they'd always be there.... I dunno... maybe I AM humanizing it because it's hard for me to imagine it the other way. It seems hard in human terms but I guess in heaven, anythings possible right? Oh well, I'm out.... just thought I'd write whats on my mind....

Currently listening:
Long Road Out Of Eden
By Eagles
Let me tell you why I hate
Nathan Biebel

 
Interesting ponderances but not very "christian" if thats what you're going for.

This sounds a lot like the eastern religions and nirvana to me. Souls combining into oneness with the world doesn't really sound all that appealing to me. But asside from MY opinions lets take a rational look at this based on what we've been told.

The Bible speaks of a "personal" type of heaven wherein we each will individually have a place where our treasures are stored up and where we can commune with the father. I see no real mention nor do I think there ever will be need for, a search for long lost dead people in heaven. I don't know that we'll even think of it even if it is some sort of temporal existance like that but what it sounds like you're doing is making heaven like another earth. Where time and distance actually matter. But we already know that they don't. There is no time and there is no distances in heaven so you, much like God (though I realize this is a loose description as he cannot be described very meaningful as outside of time if I use any sort of rationalization because rationalization requires time to opperate, but allas here it is in the simplest form human kind can understand) won't have any bearing or care for time or distances because you will be everywhere all at once.....much like a Photon particle, massless, and known as the universal observer because nothing travels faster then you so it is said time and space holds no bearing for light particles (photon particles, same thing) so space and time bends to their will. Wherever they are going they already are...in a manor of speaking...They do not travel backwards in time but they don't travel foreword eaither....they don't travel away from things but they don't travel towards them either...they just simply are there. Like space folds onto itself for them.

I personally try not to imagine what heaven will be like or what will happen to my soul when I get there because to do so is setting yourself up for failure, but in this case be very careful what you hope and wish for because it may end up being exactly the opposite of what you intend. Your sentiments above are not at all a description of heaven...they are a description of what eastern religions think happens to your life force after you die....if heaven does exist (and I believe it does) then that would mean you remain AS YOU ARE for the sake of identity otherwise there would be no point in hoping for heaven.....you would never know you were there....in fact...you would never know who YOU were at all if you didn't maintain some sort of identity that is seperate and orriginal, appart from anyone else.

So it isn't possible that souls join together at all in heaven...if it's heaven then individuality is celebrated because that is what makes each person unique and lovable. If everyone became the same essence then God could not tell them appart and so he would love the whole and not the individual but that is not the picture or the description that is given...nor would I want any part of a heaven where I am no longer myself to enjoy the pleasures that are before me. Not selfish like, but so that I may remember who I once was and so that I may KNOW that it IS heaven...if I loose my identity in heaven then I would never know it was heaven...I would only know it was home and so I would never appreciate how great it is as I would never have anything worse to compare it too.

Anywho....thats all for now. Don't mean to clog up your blog comments just hadda say something.
 
Posted by Let me tell you why I hate on March 22, 2008 - Saturday - 5:32 PM
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Evelyn

 
Ahhhh an admirable subject. Of course they can hear you! I think, personally, that you are both right and wrong. I think we have the choice to continue an individual existence or to be absorbed back into the God center, and become one with God again.
 
Posted by Evelyn on March 22, 2008 - Saturday - 5:32 PM
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Brit

 
John 14:2
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Rev 3:5
He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

Rev 7:9-12
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:
"Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb." All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying:
"Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever.
Amen!"

Don't worry, everyone will remain their own individual entity. We wont become one with one another. :)
 
Posted by Brit on March 26, 2008 - Wednesday - 5:20 PM
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