To those of you who have an absolutely clear understanding of your "heaven;" your repository after your human life on earth --- congratulations! You are gifted people -- gifted with a faith so palpable it never admits doubt, and/or of a self-delusion so deep it never admits that it is a lie.
I do have doubts about a "heaven." Why? There is no promise of it in the great books of world religion -- but only descriptions of "states of being" almost certainly put in those books to pacify and reassure the faithful of whatever faith. Why is reassurance necessary -- because for most of us the thought of an "ending of our life" without some kind of "continuing" is a ferocious and debilitating thought.
But I think that I have become one of those people who knows I cannot control either the outcome of my life -- or whatever might follow. So, to paraphrase a Renaissance philosopher: I think, therefore what I will be, I will be! In this case that statement is not a tautology -- but our fondest dream.
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