What kind of person would be able to fully enjoy themselves in Heaven knowing that the other half of humanity, even people they knew or cared about was being tortured in Hell?[/quote]
Maybe Heaven is the ability to forget that there are any bad things anywhere. Like being a squirrel. No knowledge that there was a time before you, no knowledge that there will be a time after you, no knowledge that there is a hawk’s nest above your burrow, general enjoyment of acorns and other squirrels.[/quote]
Like in one of my fav’s Childhood’s End.[/quote]
aren’t prey animals like squirrels generally anxious and, well, squirrelly?[/quote]
Yeah but somehow that squirrel became something different when it went to Heaven. That squirrel has somehow forgotten about the other squirrels that didn’t make it to heaven and all the predators that used to terrify it. Does the squirrel even know who it used to be? Stripped of its past programming is it even the same squirrel? It’s probably some kind of stepford zombie squirrel too dumb to even wonder how it got there.
