Unlimited possibilities for creativity. You can build houses, design landscapes, cook, paint… Won’t necessarily come out right the first time (I happen to enjoy improvement), but if you made for example a house and want to change something on the ground floor, you can fix just that part without having to take apart the whole building.
We’d have all the languages there have ever been and understand them all. Sometimes the same story in different languages has different connotations, different jokes… some of the Marx Brothers’ most famous lines in Spanish - don’t exist in the original!
This is great fun to see how many desires that are layed out are actually the very same things that I’ve wished for, too. I think it proves that in many important ways people are a lot alike – we love beauty, peace, knowledge and – hold on! – se…x.
I’m glad that you folks didn’t think it was corny for me to start such a thread. My idea for the clouds turning into people and such actually came from a dream I had a long time ago, though my dream might have been the result of having seen at least one time in my life some beautiful paintings that someone did showing hot-air ballons in a surreal landscape and sky.
And, too, I liked it that one of you stated that we’d be able to just do anything in the way of artistic abilities without having to struggle for years, as that’s something that I’ve often wished was the case as I seem to struggle too much just to even write my name, let alone to do something that causes one to stand back and say, Wow.
Glad someone got the animals on board, as they’re too delightful to be left out of this.
I would wish for a section that always has wonderful rainstorm, with spectacular thunder and lighting. There would be a covered area with a comfy bench, a non-stop supply of wine, good books, and yarn for knitting.
Hmmmmm… You know, there are parts of this heaven that I’m not fond of. For instance, the ability to just play musical instruments. I like learning things. That’s half the fun.
That’s just an example, and it’s just me so . . .
So I’m going to propose my own wish.
A Reset Button.
In a cave under a huge mountain guarded by a many and varried creatures, traps, illusions and other things. It would be very very very very difficult to get to the button and press it. If you fail in some way, you are sent to a random point in Heaven and get to try again. Or not. The button gets pressed only once every million years or so and when that happens, the committee meets again and re-makes heaven with different parameters.
You can be any age you want to be in order to revisit the times and places of your childhood. If I wanted to be 10 and go back to the lake at the farm in Lumberport, I could do that, and Mom and Dad and my sisters would be there. (And, since it was mentioned upthread that the fishing in Doper Heaven would be great…what a day we’d have!)
These are some great ideas and all of mine except one has been taken. So here it is.
There is a place where everyone gets to make their own universe and be the god of the universe. The only rule is the people have to have free will. You can influence all you want but they still get to decide if they want to follow your influence.
I would make a universe where half the populace are pirates and the other half are ninja’s. Then that ancient mystery of who would win in a fight can finally be solved.
At least one example of every make/model of automobile built on Earth would exist, and none would ever rust out totally or otherwise be destroyed (though some minor repairs would occasionally be required, as there are people whose idea of paradise would be to tinker with Bugattis or Duesenbergs all day long!)
Similarly, all the great roller coasters, Dodgem rides, and other amusement attractions of the past and present would be available, as would Ferris wheels and carousels much grander than mortals have ever devised.
Sports buffs could finally settle their arguments – the 1950 Cleveland Browns would take on the Pittsburgh “Steel Curtain” of the 1970’s, Bill Russell’s Boston Celtics would square off against Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, etc.
I’d need something to work on - I think I’d get bored without something to tinker with or work on for eternity. Of course, all the tools you would ever want would be right there, and you’d never misplace 'em.
I’d want to see some sort of chronoscope that would let me watch things that took place way back when.
And of course the beer would be readily available, and at just the right temperature.
Perfect health for everyone. My dog would be constantly by my side - and we would finally be able to really chat with each other.
Also, I’d like the whims of my imagination to come true if I so desire. If I decide to turn the car I’m driving into a magical pirate ship that sails through the air, or if I decide I want to visit Muad’Dib’s palace, or be a fly on the wall in George Clooney’s bedroom, I want it to happen. Not at anybody else’s inconvenience, though. Basically I want heaven to be my infinite holodeck.
Dang, you stole my thunder. I was going to propose a panchronotopic Disneyland; it would feature every ride/show/attraction that ever existed in the park. Wanna see the stock, off-the-shelf '55 model? No problem! Rides from different eras coexisting? Can do! Partly I’d want another chance to visit the long-lost attractions of my youth, partly I’d want the opportunity to see those things that were torn our before I was even born.
