Recently watch “What Dreams May Come” In retrospect, I think it should be called “What Heaven May Come.”

I figured the movie would be an intricate portrayal of a man’s personal hell. It’s really a portrayal of how a man’s customized heaven readily became his personalized hell.

What would my personal Hell be? My personal hell would involve dying and waking up to realize that I wasn’t done yet. My personal hell would involve everyday things like night stands and couches. There would be annoying people and stupid people. In fact, my personal hell would pretty much be like Life, with the oppressive addition of Eternity. That’s what would make it a hell for me. As individuals, we tolerate existence because we hope beyond all reason that our lot in life will improve and then End. It’s the Goal that drives us. Progress is built into our genes and to be robbed of the possibility of progress, to be reduced to slow degradation, is the epitome of hell. It’s not the burning part that scares people, it’s the fact that it could last forever.
But you needn’t worry. Your God is a wuss.  Seriously. My God could beat up your God My God is a lot tougher than yours. He could prolly bench more weight. He’s prolly killed more Indians (and Afrikaans, and… and…). He expects more and His punishments are a lot tougher.

My God would shiver ye timbers.

Though, for the life of me, I can’t imagine what my perfect heaven would be. I can’t even imagine a God that gives a damn. I can’t think of a single scenario in which I’d chose to spend eternity. The idea of heaven is really counter to what we as humans are bred to be. It works against our souls and our basic nature and desire for progress. In this regard, Heaven doesn’t exist.

Conversely, I know that any Hell crafted by the God of my understanding would be a hateful insidiously evil place designed to make one regret every second of one’s miserable afterlife. A hell crafted by Him, would be a place of great woe.

Ponder heaven and reference it against eternity and then ask thyself: what dreams may come? What dreams, indeed.