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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Heaven has a number of meanings. Some look at it as a level of consciousness that we can attain now. Some look at it as the after life and yes it also means up there in the sky. You choose not to take it as anything but the sky above and miss the best possibility. Don't worry about the word "heaven", think about it as just beauty. You should forget all your religious crap and just look at life as something to be enjoyed now, this moment. I find it strange that those most opposed to religion use religion to justify their views. You're attacking a paper tiger. The truth lies within yourself or as Socrates said "know thyself".
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I don't know if I'm putting all my eggs in the basket of a 15th century misogynist.
Just because someone is from India and the English translation seems stilted and profound, does not make them so.
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"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark"
Stephen Hawking
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