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If heaven is perfect and free of all things we perceive to be 'not good', sorrow, anger, sin, etc. then the freedom we experience here known as 'free will' can't exist in heaven. This is because free will allows us to make a choice that may not be in our favor which leads to an adverse experience. So if free will in heaven does not exist then neither does conscious thought, because consciousness allows us to be aware of ourselves and make choices. And if consciousness in heaven does not exist, then life in heaven does not exist, therefore heaven does not exist.
One point to make here. You are making the comment from a Time/Space perspective where we perceive the phenomenon called "opposites". In this so-called heaven there would not be a Not Good or a Good. There will just Be. Personality makes the judgement call, not heaven. That is the gift of Consciousness, to play with opposites until we are tired them.
The Universe has no meaning but what we give it. That is our gift!
iaxguy - whew !! you would have had a blast in the 60's. Your chain of rationalizations make whatever way you want to see something a breeze to understand.And Markmawn2 - I can just see you guys sitting down, puffin' and passin' a reefer...dudes!!
Hey, try this perspective - God is omnipresent, right? And the physical creation is a conglomeration of Spirit metaphors, for example we are concieved as two single cells and when they connect you have a representation of the "Big Bang" theory. Cell division to trillions of cells that make up a body - parallel being the universe ! Now the physical realm represented by the universe in its entirety is actually the womb for the development of the fetus(us as humanity) to become spirit beings......so in reality we are inside of God !!! Ain't that coool ??!!