# Please add your own slice of Heaven to Heaven **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013 "2007-06-06T17:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuyNblueJeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/1 "2007-06-06T17:11:42Z")
Creating Heaven via committee … . If fate were to decree that all of us Dopers had to spend eternity together, in a place called Heaven, and thus each of us were to have an input into how things would be in this very special place, what one thing would you personally most want to see exist there? By each person _sincerely_ adding there one wish, we should, I would guess, get an interesting and maybe exciting and beautiful picture of Doper Paradise by way of amalgamation. Also, feel free to add an explanation as to why you’d like your particular desire to be there if you think it would help us understand where you’re coming from in the event that it could (to some) seem weird or maybe even disturbing. Okay, I’ve changed my mind! Let’s say that each person can have up to three wishes (for this place) and no more. (Three guaranteed desires granted for each person is better than one lest one get nervous that those that follow might not add it, thereby creating, in time, a hell where none was intended.) Here are my three wants for this place: 1. I want the clouds in this place to quietly move through the sky like dreamy ghost ships that slowly change from one surreal unexpected image to another … recalling fantastic legends and myths from earth’s long, rich history … deeply stirring one’s heart and soul with their haunting beauty. 2. The oceans, all the fantastic oceans(!), have in them wonderful and mysterious friendly fire-breathing dragons, like those found in children’s story books. And they talk making silly threats to one another, and are full of warts. 3. Everyone’s IQs are so far off the charts that we naturally and effortlessly speak in beautiful poems and rhymes, as we choose. Someone, take it awaaaay!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/2 "2007-06-06T17:32:04Z")
Hey, I _like_ this! There is healing for everyone’s aches and pains and scars (everything from broken thumbnails to limps and weak knees to the effects of malnutririon and ageing to scarred and twisted and guilt-ridden personalities), so that in time we become the best of all our possible selves. There are landscapes of rich and magical colour and beauty, with green lawns and butterfly meadows and rolling hills and clear refreshing streams. Snowcapped mountains on the horizon invite the traveler to come further in and futher up, alwways towards greater beauty. (That last Narnia book may have had its creepy parts, but the heavenly landscapes described at the end have always stayed with me.) When we communicate, our words form interactive shared pictures and sculptures of light in the air, if we so desire. (Got that one from a description of the effects of a drug, oddly enough.) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/3 "2007-06-06T17:53:00Z")
I want the Northern Lights, Marcie, and our little white fluffy dog. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/4 "2007-06-06T18:01:09Z")
I am actually visiting heaven on Friday. Up in Snowmass, CO there is an event that includes a chili cook-Off, a microbrew festival, and concerts by two of my favorite bluegrass artists, the Del McCoury Band and David Grisman. You can’t get much closer to heaven than that, in my mind! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/5 "2007-06-06T18:09:59Z")
1. A bowling alley where you can bowl on any lane condition you choose at any time, and there are always open lanes and always others to bowl with. 2. A telescope with infinite magnification that allows me to view any part of the universe from as near or as far as I choose with absolute clarity. 3. Naughty puppet shows. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/6 "2007-06-06T22:03:31Z")
Heaven, as designed by Committee, is, by Definition, Hell. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/7 "2007-06-06T22:32:19Z")
(ignoring\*\* Bosda\*\*) There would be cats and kittens that never shed and don’t have dander or anything that people would be allergic to. [tangent] One of the things that made me start questioning the religion in which I was raised was being told by a preacher that of course animals didn’t go to heaven. [/tangent] When you swim in the wonderful oceans, the dragons welcome you and play with you! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/8 "2007-06-06T23:07:09Z")
1. There is a huge library of every book ever written. One can browse through what was in the Library of Alexandria and other lost tomes. 2. There is a huge movie screen with pause, zoom in, rewind, move to another angle, etc…so we can once and for all get answers to the JFK assassination, the Mary Celeste, the colony at Roanoke, and other mysteries. 3. There is a fantastic restaurant where one can dine with Churchill, Caesar, Douglas Adams, etc. If one is high enough up the cherubim scale, they can even pull in (via webcast) folk who may be…shall we say…spending eternity elsewhere…(Hitler, Arafat, etc.) Those dinners will be held in a private room, of course, and are subject to availability. (That’s my three. Someone add in the pets on the other side of Rainbow Bridge, please. C’mon, I gave you a library and the answers to life’s mysteries. The least you could do is bring in our late and missed kitties and puppies.) ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/9 "2007-06-06T23:24:25Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] (That’s my three. Someone add in the pets on the other side of Rainbow Bridge, please. C’mon, I gave you a library and the answers to life’s mysteries. The least you could do is bring in our late and missed kitties and puppies.) [/QUOTE] Since I only used two of my three, I’ll add that one - and I’m ashamed I didn’t think of it! All of our furry friends who have gone before us will be there, waiting at the base of an impossibly beautiful Rainbow Bridge. They will be healed of injuries and illness and be as they were in the prime of life. If they are one of the kittens or puppies who didn’t make it, they will be round and fuzzy and stubby tailed and healthy. When they see their person they will run to greet them and their people will finally be able to understand everything they say! I miss you, [Gweniever](http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2813299550092851307QoQEED). ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/10 "2007-06-06T23:39:41Z")
That anybody can be whatever they wish to be, for as long as they like, if for some reason they didn’t get the nose or the belly button or the ears they think they deserved, or if they were born with unmanageable hair or a stubborn cowlick, or if they were born the wrong gender or with imperfect teeth, or just because today it would be fun to have blue eyes for a change. That everybody can sit down to play any old musical instrument they want, in perfect tune, so nobody ever looks in longing at the musicians and thinks with regret, “Gosh, I could’ve done that if I had tried harder and studied more.” That everybody can dance if they wish, without reserve, as skillfully as they please, without stopping to wonder if people are staring. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/11 "2007-06-06T23:43:22Z")
It would smell like the Danish Maid bakery in Grinnell, IA, does at 3am. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/12 "2007-06-06T23:45:10Z")
1. Eat and drink all I want without getting fat or overly drunk 2. The ability to orgasm or cause orgasm in others upon command, with no need for down time. 3. I shall win all my card games by top-decking just the card I need at the last moment. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/13 "2007-06-06T23:55:40Z")
We finally find out what 12 k of g in a f p d means! Of course, that’s much more fantastic than any of your other plans, so I’ll just wish for rivers that run dark chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/14 "2007-06-07T00:02:12Z")
ignore this duplicate post ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/15 "2007-06-07T00:49:27Z")
72 virgins? No thanks! Give me 72 porn stars! ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/16 "2007-06-07T02:41:12Z")
1. At least one Trappist monastery, preferably populated by the Trappist monks of long past, having had centuries to refine their beer crafting skills. 2. Sunsets on demand. 3. A small piece of land with a cabin that I could stay at, but didn’t technically own (the idea of ownership in Heaven bothers me). Near a stream and a field, with fireflies at night and somewhere for me to put my feet up. ---
**Author:** ![Freezair\_SilverEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Freezair\_SilverEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freezair_SilverEye)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/17 "2007-06-07T07:33:20Z")
1. Libraries would be a lot like TiVo. You could search through an enormous list of every book every written (including those only written in Heaven–I’ll bet the Bard’s done some marvelous plays in the several centuries he’s been up there) and have them sent to you. They would also catalog other books they think you’d like. Once reading a book, you would be able to experience every detail of it as if you were there, even if the author was mightly incompetent with details. 2. In addition to **Fish’s** musical instruments and dances, everyone would be able to draw exactly what was in their heads, be it photorealistic or cartoony. Anyone can finish a drawing in a second and, if they so choose, make their own animated movie in a day. 3. There are copious treehouses in the mighty towering forests, with rope bridges, spire steps winding around the trees, and a gazillion and one (this is an exact number) secret passages. ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/18 "2007-06-07T11:48:47Z")
There would be magnificent open-air food festivals with music and sunshine and laughing, smiling people where everyone can try wonderful dishes and delicacies from around the world and throughout time. Everything would taste wondrous and nothing would ever have any adverse effects. There would be balloons and happy children and a resounding air of deep contentment. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/19 "2007-06-07T12:17:22Z")
The great teachers of every art and craft, with unlimited time and patience for students whose capacity to learn would be likewise unlimited by petty constraints like fumble fingers, poor attention span and absolutely no ability to translate thought into deed. World enough and time to study every animal, plant, rock and star in the minutest detail until you know _all_ about _all_ of them. A tall ship and a star to steer her by. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013/20 "2007-06-07T12:26:02Z")
No waste. Of any sort. No garbage, no body waste, nothing. It just vaporizes, except that it doesn’t, because there’s no waste vapor either. It disappears. Everybody has perfect memory, and no memories ever hurt. Everybody feels what everybody else feels, but can distinguish those feelings from their own. That way, we’ll never hurt each other, annoy each other or be in each other’s way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-add-your-own-slice-of-heaven-to-heaven/407013.md?page=2)