Today i got a quite interesting text to be translated in my TTU (Teori Terjemahan Umum) class... it's about the quest for paradise.
So apparently people, with their own differences in conceptions, point of views and beliefs, come up with different conceptions of heaven as well... it was said that Buddha proferred enlightment, an existence without suffering as heaven. The vikings, on the other hand, always dreamed up Valhalla, a hall of dead heroes battling by day and feasting by night for eternity - hmm... this sounds like the kind of heaven Ruli would die for... I wonder why he hadnt born as a Viking... - Dante in his Divine Comedy described heaven as something that is logically ruled by reasons, the nine spheres of heaven. Meanwhile Jorge Luis Borges, the author of Labyrinths, presumed that heaven is a place like a huge library where you can satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
In general, i think the concept of heaven is actually a place, where you can find your eternal happiness. Now, the tricky thing regarding this issue of course, as a unique human being, we have different concept of happiness, or things that would make you happy, or place you think would make you eternally happy.
So, what is exactly your conception of heaven? your eternal happiness?
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