Poor your energies into enjoying the life we know about and can tangibly prove, to the fullest. There are various trains of thought on how to achieve this, some prefer stoicism, some prefer hedonism in vague terms.
The notion that you'll live in paradise eternally subsequent to a life following someone else's strict rules is a bald faced lie. I can't even think of how to put it in simpler terms. It's pretty easy for me to see how it's all designed as a system of control: sure you hate your life living under the heel now, but if you do it well you'll get to live how you want forever!!
But why would heaven not have the same rules? Who gets to define paradise anyways? If my paradise is actually becoming a horrid human butcher, but I lived a devout and pure lifespan, would that be permitted in paradise? What would I then be butchering?
The line of questions goes on and on. Unless you believe that your paradise is completely singular and everything within a self generated copy... but does that sound materially different than an endless dream? Which is how death is sometimes described poetically?
It's a ridiculous notion.
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