Comments on: A Cold and Sterile Heaven

By: Caiphen

Caiphen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:49:33 +0000

I reckon YEC's eat grass now. It'll half explain their similar intelligence to a cow. They'll need plenty of it in heaven.

By: feralboy12

feralboy12 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:06:16 +0000

Yeah, heaven will be just wonderful...until somebody suddenly stands up and says, "wait a minute, this is grass! We've been eating grass!"

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:57:49 +0000

So you don't relate to any genre when you play in your band?

By: Thumpalumpacus

Thumpalumpacus — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:20:25 +0000

The music my band performs isn't monotonous. The delightful surprises my son gives me aren't monotonous. The conversations I have with friends aren't monotonous.

Preachery is monotonous.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:08:30 +0000

People who enjoy science, study science...people who like math, practice math....people who like to write, do just that...It was said earlier on here that they would not want to live in a monotonous heaven, well I challenge you to explain to me what isn't "monotonous"? And who says that the preachers read the same verses over and over? 31,102 verses in the Bible...If a preacher preached from one verse a day every day, the Scripture would last him over 87 years. Now how is this monotonous. The act of studying anything is monotonous, but any one thing which is studied can be very vast.

By: Jim Baerg

Jim Baerg — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:23:24 +0000

BTW Tolkein wrote a short story which suggests an afterlife which actually has some appealing aspects. See _Leaf by Niggle_. It is certainly far better than the Heaven mentioned in the starting post.

By: Scotlyn

Scotlyn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:45:12 +0000

That link is Left Behind Games

By: Scotlyn

Scotlyn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:42:58 +0000

yunshui

I'm actually a tiny bit curious to read the Left Behind books, since they don't have anything like the same level of popularity over here in the UK. Would anyone who has read them actually recommend them on any level?

I read one once as a teenager, and my over-riding memory is of fear, which lasted for a week or two after reading it. Possibly, if you are still susceptible to fear of hell and tribulation, that is what works with these books. I've had no desire to read one again. But on the other hand, you may be interested in Left Behind Gaming... I kid you not! According to the site intro:

"More than 63 million books have been sold from the Left Behind series. Of those millions of fans 72 percent play video games."

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:12:24 +0000

Yes but Twilight was strange, boring AND actively encouraged stalking and pedophila. After reading it I had to read Interview with a Vampire to remind me why I used to like vampires....

By: John

John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:32:32 +0000

I'm not a bleiver in Joeseph Smith and his talltales but has any1 every noticed the Mormon concept of Heaven and eternal progression seems to be head and shoulders above the other Chrsitian faiths.

By: nightshadequeen

nightshadequeen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:44:29 +0000

Andrew: Oh, come on, give Twilight a break. It's sure more interesting than the book I'm reading right now. The book? Exodus. Everything in that series is downright strange or boring, methinks.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:12:49 +0000

At the Slacktivist blog, he calls them "The Worst Books Ever Written." And he's pretty much right on. I read the first half of Book 1 and it read like a poorly conceived first draft. I dont if I'd go so far to say teh 'worst books ever written.' I'v definetly read worse books(Twilight comes to mind). But they are definetly not worth reading.