Is Heaven Going to be Boring?

A friend and I were discussing the odd and sometimes funny ideas we all tend to develop about heaven. Of course, we all say we want to go to heaven, but is it perhaps mostly because we've got a clearer idea of what hell is like and would like to avoid it?

This clip made me laugh because it really does give a pretty good idea of what we more or less unconsciously think The Afterlife is going to be like.

"He's gone native..."


It's a laugh, but isn't it hard to deny? Don't we all more or less agree with Newman's sentiment. He had a painting in his room of the saints adoring and praising God in heaven and every day when he came back to his room had the same thing to say: "What, still at it?"

I can imagine it pretty well myself: Me arriving in heaven, standing at the back of the crowd of saints all Praising away mightily. I nudge the chap next and whisper, "Err...so. Ummm, This is it then?

"Yes, right of course. Lovely isn't it? Forever and ever..? Well well, you don't say...

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Any idea when's teatime?"