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yahwehyadayada · 11-03-2002, 12:01 PM

I don't know much about what is supposed to happen in "heaven".
Do infants remain infants for eternity, needing endless diaper changes & feedings?
Or do those xians that end up in heaven exist only as "souls"? If that is the case, how does one communicate with infant souls? Do infant souls remain infant--no language, no understanding?
I'm just wondering about these things.

Incoherent fool · 11-03-2002, 12:29 PM

I've always wondered the same sort of thing. If heaven existed, and if I was a Christian, and if I died at the good old age of 100, would I be 100 years old in heaven? Or would I be transformed to the youthful age of 20? It just doesn't make any sense at all.

lpetrich · 11-03-2002, 02:19 PM

Islamic tradition handles this conundrum by claiming that we will have very nice bodies in the Islamic Paradise, the equivalent of someone no older than 30 years. Men will have super sexual potency, which they will need for servicing their next-world harems.

There is not much on what women are promised, however -- from one place, I've learned that unmarried women will get husbands in the Islamic Paradise.

Psycho Economist · 11-03-2002, 03:01 PM

A lot of people say you are what you were when you died... and some people, notably psychic Sylvia Browne, posit that everybody is the same age (she insists on 30). If you're Christian, the Bible is generally mute on that detail, but does say in revelation that martyrs will be ressurected... especially the headless ones, so i'd presume they get their heads back.

Unrelatedly: I'm sorry, I can't resist this, so the the Muslims in iidb who aren't trolls, my appologies...

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<strong>Men will have super sexual potency, which they will need for servicing their next-world harems .... I've learned that unmarried women will get husbands in the Islamic Paradise.</strong>

If all men have harems of fantasy virgins, a bigger issue would be, what happens to the married women? Does everybody get fantasy studs and fantasy babes? Are happy marriages, then, rent asunder? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

Marduk · 11-03-2002, 03:29 PM

The more sensible metaphysical view would be that we simply rejoin the universal soul. There is no real need for more than one soul. At birth a part of it inhabits a body, at death it rejoins the whole.

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yahwehyadayada Regular Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: WI Posts: 290	Infants in heaven I don't know much about what is supposed to happen in "heaven". Do infants remain infants for eternity, needing endless diaper changes & feedings? Or do those xians that end up in heaven exist only as "souls"? If that is the case, how does one communicate with infant souls? Do infant souls remain infant--no language, no understanding? I'm just wondering about these things.

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Incoherent fool Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 293	I've always wondered the same sort of thing. If heaven existed, and if I was a Christian, and if I died at the good old age of 100, would I be 100 years old in heaven? Or would I be transformed to the youthful age of 20? It just doesn't make any sense at all.

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lpetrich Contributor Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Lebanon, OR, USA Posts: 16,829	Islamic tradition handles this conundrum by claiming that we will have very nice bodies in the Islamic Paradise, the equivalent of someone no older than 30 years. Men will have super sexual potency, which they will need for servicing their next-world harems. There is not much on what women are promised, however -- from one place, I've learned that unmarried women will get husbands in the Islamic Paradise.

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Marduk Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: the 10th planet Posts: 5,065	The more sensible metaphysical view would be that we simply rejoin the universal soul. There is no real need for more than one soul. At birth a part of it inhabits a body, at death it rejoins the whole.

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