# What will heaven be like?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-heaven-be-like/257529 "2004-07-30T01:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-heaven-be-like/257529/21 "2004-08-01T07:33:04Z")

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Sometimes I truly envy people who belive in a wonderful afterlife called heaven.

I don’t think there has ever been a definition of such a place that made me want to go there, but I appreciate the theory of such a place existing.

Playing the game…

Heaven to me would be a 2 second realization of what life on earth was all about, and a chance to undo mistakes. Might be nice to connect with old friends, but they never called that much while they were on earth, so, eh…where is the buffet and pool?

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-heaven-be-like/257529/22 "2004-08-01T19:12:16Z")

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Somewhere along the line, I´d start visiting all the wonderful people I´ve never met, but who have given me great joy.

I´d drop by Vermeer´s little corner of heaven to watch him paint a Delft street scene (commissioned by God, probably). Then I´d have to catch Michelangelo sculpting something beyond gorgeous. Next, over to Mozart´s place where I could sit unobtrusively in a corner and listen while he creates his “Piano Concerto No. Infinity plus 2”,

Later, I´d give you a yell, we´d pick up a six pack and drop in on Benny Goodman´s orchestra playing Sing Sing Sing at Carnegie Hall. (Krupa will be on a break, so you´ll have to fill in on the drums. I´ll handle the piano solo. 🆒

After that over to Scott Joplin´s house. There´ll be a two piano setup in the music room, where he and I will play his Rags for a millenia or two. Or three.

Kind of heavenly, ain´t it.

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-heaven-be-like/257529/23 "2004-08-01T23:38:31Z")

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> [@Antiochus](#):
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> After that over to Scott Joplin´s house. There´ll be a two piano setup in the music room, where he and I will play his Rags for a millenia or two. Or three.
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> Kind of heavenly, ain´t it.

:dubious:  
For me, a millennium or two of Joplin would be _hell_. Dear God, how can you desribe such a horrifying situation?  
😛

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