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[fishinwrench]

If you are widowed, and remarry.......do you get to have a heavenly 3-some in paradise?      🤔

 

[Mitch f]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

But yet God favored them, and let all those Christians perish.....and their families grieve.       It must have been a psychology experiment.    

A test of faith......yeeeeah that's the ticket 👍 

"Sing my praises as I piss in your face.   And if you stop singing...... Eternal damnation!    😅 

 

 

 

 

You know I'm just having fun here, right?  😘

You never make me upset Dawg! 

[Al Agnew]

Well, this discussion went off the rails.

Everything I've ever heard or read about heaven and eternal life sounds boring as heck after a few hundred years, maybe a lot fewer years than that.  I'm sure I've told this here before, but when you get to be my age you tend to repeat yourself...when you get to be my age, you tend to repeat yourself...........

An avid fly fisherman dies, and soon finds himself at the pearly gates.  An angel comes and tells him to follow.  He takes the angler to an absolutely gorgeous trout stream.  The weather is perfect, there are big trout rising everywhere.  The angel hands the angler a fine fly rod and a box of beautiful hand tied flies, and tells him, "This is your stretch of river.  You can fish it for as long as you wish.  Nobody else will intrude."

The angler ties on a fly that appears to match the abundant mayflies.  He picks out a rising trout and makes a perfect cast.  The drift is beautiful.  The trout takes solidly.  The battle is spectacular, but finally the angler nets a beautiful 20-inch rainbow, admires it, and releases it.  He picks out another rising trout.  Another perfect cast and drift, another take, another battle, another 20 inch rainbow.  The next cast is pretty sloppy, but it doesn't matter, the nearest trout takes, same kind of battle, another 20 incher.

After a couple hours, the angler has gone through every fly in his box.  He's purposely made terrible casts and dragged the fly along the surface, or let it sink when it gets waterlogged.  Doesn't matter.  Every cast gets a take.  Every battle results in landing the fish.  Every fish is 20 inches.  Finally the angler walks back up the hill to where the angel is watching, and says, "Well, this has been terrific, but is there another stream we can try?  Maybe one with more challenging fish, or bigger fish?"

"Nope," says the angel.  This is your assigned stream.  It's the stream you will fish for all eternity."

"Wow," says the angler.  "I mean, it's great fishing but I thought Heaven would be more interesting than this."

The angel looks at him sadly, and replies, "Who told you this was Heaven?"

[fishinwrench]

Lacking planes, trains, or automobiles in heaven, I suppose you'll be limited to fishing only places that are within walking distance.   

If there are fishing rods, fly line, and tackle, then guess what else will be in heaven?  Factories!   Factories filled with WORKERS who will eventually grow sick of their JOBS...... I mean we're talking eternity here, remember?   

I mean, I suppose that all the factories full of miserable bastards could be in hades.....and the goods exported to heaven for the holy ones to use.    Instead of "made in China"......they will be  "made in Hades".   But wait.... you'll never own anything, because material possessions are highly frowned upon.   Don't think for a minute that you'll own a really sweet 9' for 5 flyrod that you just love to fish with, or polarized shades. 

Nah, I'm reasonably certain that if heaven is real.....then there won't be any sport fishing going on.   And there darn sure won't be any hunting.    And if you think that maybe you can initiate a new sport while in heaven that consists of pestering the heavenly animals..... consider this...... You've got to get 144,000 individual rulers to all give you their blessings first.     Fat chance, Homie! 🙄  

So whaddya wanna do for all eternity, besides just sit there, taking in the beauty, and not bothering anything?     You can't even sit there and whittle on a stick.....unless you can whittle with your teeth & fingernails.  No pocket knives for sure.   

After about 160 years, what are you and your dad & grandpa gonna have to talk about ? 🤔 

I'm trying really hard to not be a smartass or make anybody mad, but have any of y'all ever thought any of this through at all ?

[Mitch f]

First of all… There won’t be any fly fishing in heaven. Only conventional gear with artificial‘s are used. former fly fisherman have about six months to change their ways and repent.

[Jerry Rapp]

well............sort of an eye opening thread this morning.  Are there life jackets in heaven?

[Flysmallie]

3 hours ago, Mitch f said:

First of all… There won’t be any fly fishing in heaven. Only conventional gear with artificial‘s are used. former fly fisherman have about six months to change their ways and repent.

I know you are just joking, but this is the problem with most religions. They make up rules to fit their own agendas. I'm not saying that having faith is a bad thing. I think it's a wonderful thing for most people. Unfortunately, some churches are just taking advantage of people. 

Again, I'm not against it. I was raised going to church, it just never stuck with me. 

[Mitch f]

4 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

I know you are just joking, but this is the problem with most religions. They make up rules to fit their own agendas. I'm not saying that having faith is a bad thing. I think it's a wonderful thing for most people. Unfortunately, some churches are just taking advantage of people. 

Again, I'm not against it. I was raised going to church, it just never stuck with me. 

I get that

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

well............sort of an eye opening thread this morning.  Are there life jackets in heaven?

No, you can breathe underwater and everyone will be able to swim no matter what.     It's impossible to have a fatal accident of any kind once you get there.    

Even if you overturn a canoe in the middle of the ocean you'll be fine.  Sharks don't eat people in heaven, so just tread water until the next angel flys by.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

I know you are just joking, but this is the problem with most religions. They make up rules to fit their own agendas.

In some cases yes, but the KJ Bible is the word that most all Christian religions go by.   Interpretation can vary to a degree, but individually everyone pretty much comes to their own conclusion regardless of what church they go to.     That is IF the person actually READS the bible.  You'd probably be surprised at the number of devout Christians that have NEVER actually read the bible themselves.   They merely get their knowledge of it through the snippets spewed by their preacher/pastor during Sunday services.   They'll freely lie about that and aggressively deny that they haven't studied the bible too......even when it's undeniably obvious.     

I was a believer most of my life until I did a REAL independent study of the bible.  I had to do it, cover-to-cover, 3 times (2 1/2 actually) because I thought that maybe I screwed up.....or misinterpreted something critical.    

It's my opinion that Mental health is more important than physical health in the grand scheme of things.  If your thoughts and beliefs are twisted then the condition of your physical body is redundant.