No Heaven (Except What We Make)
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky - Lennon Trigger warning: If you're a religious person, you may perceive what I'm about to write as an affront. It's for you to decide whether to keep reading, or skip to something else. There is plenty of other material out there to focus on. I’ve debated whether I should put this material out there, as some of it is inherently depressing and/or scary to contemplate. They’re not thoughts unique to me, though (I lay claim to no special insights), and thinking these matters through as a species may be therapeutic as well as necessary. And it’s not all bad. This post has been brewing in my head for some time. It could be emerging now as an extremely introspective person's version of a midlife crisis. I did turn 45 in February, after all. I've held a variety of beliefs over those years. Growing up, I believed there was an all-knowing, all-seeing God who could directly perceive m...