#FrequentComplaint: Why Do They Think #Heaven is 'Someplace Far Away'? @UploadOnPrime Shows Us Something Closer to 'Where It Actually Is' #Heavenly #Heavens #Heavenward @RandyAlcorn @LexBMeyer

When you die, your loved ones say you're in Heaven–just like my friends-&-family frequently 'post to the social-network' that they "miss" our friends-&-relatives who have 'passed away' ... that they've "gone to Heaven."

And that's what Heaven is—not "where you are," but 'where your friends-&-family know you are.' One of atheists' 'mantras' (tropes? clichès?) is that "when you die, then-you're rotting away or -you're cremated (burned to ashes)—you cease to exist."

Christians (and other Religion-Believers whose religions espouse 'a Heaven') know 'the truth of that'–as evidenced by all the Christian/Religious cemeteries–but they insist that their dead are 'gone to Heaven.'

That truth (that Heaven is more 'a mind-trick for the living' than 'a vacation-spot for the dead') is 'sorta repeated' by Amazon-Original UPLOAD—a series about ...

... a technology that the wealthy could use to keep their loved-ones and themselves in a virtual-reality where the still-living could 'visit' the passed-away.

That makes me want to remind people who post 'I miss my dead MeeMaw/Pap-paw/Auntie/Uncle/Mommy/Daddy/Sonny/Daughter ... -ie 😢' that "the Heaven they are in" is (like the mind-palace of the æther) in our brains!

That we can–if we concentrate (and/or -deeply meditate on our memories of them)–re-experience the good times we had with them, and possibly create new 'good times' (as I might do sometimes with my father who–tho I don't know if the man is "dead"–definitely "passed away" around the time he moved off to 'parts unknown';

(or–more-commonly–as many of my family members will do with our Granny Ruby—when we're playing a good card-game (like Uno, Skip-bo, Solitaire) or we find a huge discount at the store, we'll say "Granny Ruby musta been up in Heaven lookin` out for us!"

'Heaven' (below-hyperlinked to Randy Alcorn's comments on 'where Heaven is') is built on something deeper ... something that serves as part of the base of our entire lexicon ...

---

The word “Heaven” is built on “Home of God, the |Visible Sky, Firmament”—with cornerstones like "a |Covering" (|Chemise) or "|Sharp Stones that make up the |Vault of the Heavenly Mountain."

---

The 'world' that Nichiren Buddhism calls "Heaven" (develoka, the world of gods & superhumans) is where they experience the Joy of the fulfillment of their desires.
It's possible that the Christian Heaven–while there is a lot of desire-fulfillment there–probably isn't such a 'momentary' Joy. Rather, it's also just knowing that your desires will be fulfilled shortly!