In Buddhism it’s believed attachment to things like avoidance of pain and seeking of pleasure are what keep you in a delusion of self which keeps you suffering.
It makes sense in a way. What is a paradise like OPs? It’s a place where you suffer not and want for nothing. So if you stopped finding anything objectionable then nothing could make you suffer, and to stop desiring things then you’d want for nothing. You could be in paradise now by making the choice not to suffer or want.
Yet try as I might I still crave pizza, and find Fergie to be a cruel torturer. We’re not wired to able to ignore our bodies that our mind was evolved to see after and see to reproduction so easy. Tis human nature to want and to suffer.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Just some thoughts to throw out there.
There is a whole big Universe out there, folks! There is an abundance of things to learn, to do, to enjoy! Eternity will be quite buzzing with activity.
Heck, one activity will probably be to join the pool as to when certain people will stop griping about God really existing & get over their petty selves enough to enjoy it all.
I don’t think there will be any lack of challenges, and we may even hav our share of defeats. They just won’t be so crushing.
And just on the outside chance that we may get bored or weary of it all, I see no reason that God may not let someone sleep for a century or so.
Compared to eternity, though, a century is the merest infinitesimal blip. In fact, compared to eternity, all timeframes described in the Bible are blips. Heck, Revelation describes 1000 years of the returned Christ’s reign, but what happens in the following 10[sup]1000[/sup] years while the universe slowly converts to iron and then fades into heat death?
I know there’s a certain comfort in saying God and heaven will go on forever and ever and ever, but we have a much better idea of what that actually means than the guys who wrote the bible, and it don’t sound that good.
G.B. Shaw didn’t think so …“paradise? No man alive could stand it”-or words to that effect. We humans are never satisfied, and so much of what we THINK is happiness revolves around posessions and feeling that you are 'better" than somebody else.
Focus on the simple things, and you will be a lot happier.
That’s something I’ve wondered about too. Say our species survives and spreads out far enough nothing can quite eradicate us. What happens when we master the universe and have nothing left to invent? Do we just seed some baron rock with life, plunk down with a club and spear and just start over again?
All the posters talking about the need for a challenging life are too far from retirement. Once you have been ‘challenged’ for 30-50 years, you will feel different.
If I can sleep in every day, have lots of sex, get drunk before nightfall, repeat. Eat well, have family with me, no worries. Sunny every day. Mow the lawn. Race my car. All the women are happy to see me.