Your vision of heaven on Earth?

[Anonymous]

-STDs wouldn't exist and babies would come delivered by storks when you actually want one.
-Fast food would still exist, it would just be against the law to use ingredients that aren't 100% natural or cheaping out on quality.
-Record companies would treat bands better, and give them a bigger cut of the profits so they don't need side jobs in order to keep their families fed. More free time = more music.
-Everyone minds their own fucking business, nobody cares about the stuff celebrities do on their spare time or what gods other people worship.
-The environment will revert back to what it once was, no more stupid shit diseases and global warming.
-Mosquitoes respect the fact that humans don't wanna get bitten.
-Travel is cheaper, so there's more opportunity for everyone to visit the places they can only dream of otherwise.
-To have a better schooling system, the present one is obviously not working.
-People wouldn't be so closed minded, discrimination and prejudice wouldn't exist.
-Water wouldn't run out.
-More venues would have all-ages shows. Kids deserve to be able to see bands, be it local bands or famous bands.
-There would be no handicapped people, and amputees could grow back their limbs.
-Hal Turner will finally STFU and GTFO.

 

[greenaxer]

- People learn to respect one another regardless of their differences
- Closing of the chasm between the rich and poor
- End to disease and famine
- Men and women learn how to freegin' communicate better to each other
- Setting a better example for kids apart from the absolute shit on TV
- Symphony X performs with a 60-piece orchestra (V in its entirety) in my
hometown and broadcasts it for the world to see, if they want to
- Spending the night in the arms of whomever we wish (Rebecca Romijn
would be plenty nice)

 

[Anonymous]

- Spending the night in the arms of whomever we wish (Rebecca Romijn
would be plenty nice)

Hell, I'd even settle for John Stamos














































On second thought, not really.

 

[greenaxer]

Hey, to each his own, bro!

 

[Anonymous]

But seriously, back to topic: It doesn't get much cooler than fucking Mystique.

 

[Matt]

-STDs wouldn't exist and babies would come delivered by storks when you actually want one.
-Fast food would still exist, it would just be against the law to use ingredients that aren't 100% natural or cheaping out on quality.
-Record companies would treat bands better, and give them a bigger cut of the profits so they don't need side jobs in order to keep their families fed. More free time = more music.
-Everyone minds their own fucking business, nobody cares about the stuff celebrities do on their spare time or what gods other people worship.
-The environment will revert back to what it once was, no more stupid shit diseases and global warming.
-Mosquitoes respect the fact that humans don't wanna get bitten.
-Travel is cheaper, so there's more opportunity for everyone to visit the places they can only dream of otherwise.
-To have a better schooling system, the present one is obviously not working.
-People wouldn't be so closed minded, discrimination and prejudice wouldn't exist.
-Water wouldn't run out.
-More venues would have all-ages shows. Kids deserve to be able to see bands, be it local bands or famous bands.
-There would be no handicapped people, and amputees could grow back their limbs.
-Hal Turner will finally STFU and GTFO.

I agree with all of these especially the first one.

 

[Horus]

I got a new one.
Screw everything I said before, this is true heaven on earth:

A peaceful internetz discussion about Dream Theater

 

[claudeRichard]

Update: Here's another thing about my heaven:

Countries would each have their own genre of music: metal, classical, jazz, punk, country, whatever.

Your youth would consist of you visiting various countries to see which one you like best. Air travel is free and fully automatic. Then, when it's time to get out of your parents' house and start your own life, you would go through the following ritual:

You would go to the country beside the one in which you want to settle in. Then you would be given a parachute and instructions on how to use it, and you would put it on. Then you would step in a giant catapult (about 100 ft tall). Then you would be catapulted towards your future homeland. That would be awesome.

Also, Metal-Land would be right beside Emo-Land. Then we metal people could always enjoy the sight of Emo people being catapulted out of our country!

The Internet would still exist, but without any porn hogging up bandwidth. People shouldn't want porn anymore because hitting your face against the wall is even better. Making your own web page would be easy. Putting porn on a website would be punishable by 10 successive kicks in the nuts.

Since getting punched in the face would bring more pleasure than sex, there would be no reason to accidentally get a girl pregnant. Therefore, abortion would be illegal and rape would be punishable by catapult (without a parachute, or clothes on) about a mile high and into the ocean.

Want to show some love instead of hitting your girlfriend in the face? Don't want babies? Kiss her, and press your face against hers while you're at it, because that brings extreme pleasure too. You don't need sex!

Man, that face orgasm thing solves a lot of problems!

 

[Kenneth R.]

I'm not going to say anything ridiculous like

"in heaven on earth i'd have a bazillion dollars and be sexiest man alive with levitation powers"

Heaven on earth is connective communication. people would respect each other's differences and there would be no division. A human race, and only that. No racism, sexism, or political bullshit. It's basically idealistic communism.

A world in which war does not exist, not because everyone is somehow perfect, but that everyone is intelligent, critical, and sentient enough to control themselves and thus, while they have the potential to do great evils that we still continuously perpetrate in this imperfect world, they would in each occasion consciously and actively choose good over all such evils. That is the most morally significant, beautiful world on earth i can think of.

As for this world: as my user title states, I am a sworn enemy.

 

[Taliwakker]

As for this world: as my user title states, I am a sworn enemy

You might think you're the enemy but you ain't shit unless you've made the FBI 10 most wanted list.....

 

[Sabin17]

Heaven on Earth....hm....

No mandatory wake up times for ANYTHING without ANY repercussions.

Coca-Cola starts manufacturing and selling Surge again.

No more paying for college textbooks, just renting/borrowing.

 

[PoisonSeed]

I don't believe in heaven.

 

[Anonymous]

Update: Arrested Development and Andy Richter Controls the Universe gets back on the air.

 

[claudeRichard]

Actually, my version of heaven doesn't sound like heaven anymore. It kinda sucks.

Except for the punch-in-the-face orgasm. That rules.

I realized that it's impossible to create heaven on Earth (without resorting to some kind of artificial brain altering). If you want to get as close to heaven as possible, and stay at that level of happiness as consistently as possible for the rest of your life, you need some variety. That variety includes switching from good and bad feelings.

Anyway, let's say we were in heaven right now. No war, no racism, no challenges left to overcome. Our ultimate goal of creating constant happiness on Earth would be achieved. But what would be the purpose of our lives? To be happy? Wouldn't we have a void inside of us? Without challenge, we would lose the feeling of satisfaction that comes after successfully getting through a tough day, or finally finishing that huge project you undertook a few months ago.

Life without tough times wouldn't really be heaven. Therefore, heaven on Earth is only a dream. We'll have to die to find out if our spirits can go in an absolute state of constant bliss in the afterlife.









I'm contradicting the whole point of my own thread here...

Carry on posting your vision of heaven here anyway.

 

[Kenneth R.]

You might think you're the enemy but you ain't shit unless you've made the FBI 10 most wanted list.....

they have good reason to fear me. humans have the potential to ignite social change in a cascading manner among other humans. it doesn't have to involve possession of nuclear weapons. pop culture is incredibly underestimated as a social weapon. as for being popular, surely i'm not. surely i am not claiming to be the next gandhi or mtv or albert einstein. i am however claiming that these and other phenomena originated from single individuals with the motivation to alter social perspectives. each of us has that power. the current norm is my opponent and i am and will take measures to alter it in a manner that is not violent, yet potent. i do not have to change the world. i need only change myself, and ignite a desire for change like dominos.

that is heaven on earth for me, as i said above - an aware, conscious, active public society that, in full knowledge of all potential evil, stubbornly chooses 'good'.

and i pose to the rest of you a question: having now listed what 'heaven' would be, clearly that is an indication of changes you would like to see that depart from the current status of the world. what are you doing to instigate these changes? or are you even actively pushing to forward them at all?

 

[HackerX]

Except for the punch-in-the-face orgasm. That rules.

 

[progmetaldan]

I'm not going to say anything ridiculous like

"in heaven on earth i'd have a bazillion dollars and be sexiest man alive with levitation powers"

Heaven on earth is connective communication. people would respect each other's differences and there would be no division. A human race, and only that. No racism, sexism, or political bullshit. It's basically idealistic communism.

A world in which war does not exist, not because everyone is somehow perfect, but that everyone is intelligent, critical, and sentient enough to control themselves and thus, while they have the potential to do great evils that we still continuously perpetrate in this imperfect world, they would in each occasion consciously and actively choose good over all such evils. That is the most morally significant, beautiful world on earth i can think of.

As for this world: as my user title states, I am a sworn enemy.

I pretty much agree, and as wierd and controversial as it sounds, in a perfect world, communism would actually work... (Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating it...) It's just that human nature says that people are so greedy and generally lean towards pushing the boundaries of what's right, that not having a specific authority, the temptation of power becomes to much for someone, which basically results in something equivelent to a facist regime, as we've seen numerous times throughout history... So while the idea is great, we humans basically need rulers to govern us to avoid chaos...

P.S. Sorry for the crazy outburst of political analysis, I don't know what came over me...

 

[Kenneth R.]

no, i agree with you

 

[Rev. Clayton]

Mine I guess would be a world without Rap, Nu Metal, and Pop.

Then everyone would listen to our stuff...even the people that don't make you so happy. I like rap being around cause it weeds out the masses.

 

[progmetaldan]

no, i agree with you

Thank you.