Friday, September 9, 2011

Heaven: How it's portrayed vs. what it should be like

I know that past issues of Teh Chum have been pretty lame. I'm sure you all are getting sick of me only showing letters that children have written in about how they have tried to avoid pornographic photos of umbrellas and cars. In fact, I've been getting tired of that myself, so I asked my subscribers to send in things about how they have obeyed OTHER commandments. So far I haven't have much luck, except for this one letter I got asking about what we look like after we die. That letter reminded me of when I was in Primary. Every Christmas, we would learn some songs and sing in front of the entire church. We had pictures to help us. One such picture was of angels because the song talked about angels, and EVERY SINGLE TIME the song-leader-person showed that picture, she just HAD to give us a lecture about how angels don't really have wings. Not only was it incredibly annoying, but I've always been disappointed about it. I mean, why can't we have wings? What's so offensive about wings? I like wings. I've always wanted to have wings, and now I know I'll never be able to have them. If we get wings, I'd like them to be detachable so it could be easier to change my clothes.



That brings me to my next topic. In all those pictures of angels that you see at church or in those illustrated scriptures or in church magazines or whatever, they're always wearing only white robes. I mean, really. I know clothes aren't everything, but wouldn't that get a little boring?
Another thing is, what do you DO in heaven? Do you just sit there on a cloud, or are there amusement parks? I really hope there's something to do in heaven, because I would get tired of sitting on a cloud all day. If there are amusement parks, I wonder what they'd be like. They'd probably be just like the amusement parks here, only they'd make you wear modest clothing (gosh, you don't want to hear about all the inappropriate clothing that I've seen people wear at amusement parks...) and use appropriate language and stuff like that. Although if you take those paintings of heaven literally, there would probably be clouds instead of regular water if it was a water park. But clouds ARE water, right? So it would still be a water park. What I'm more curious about is the "water" parks in hell. Instead of water, they'd probably have fire. And they'd make you go naked. Or wear flammable clothing. Either one, depending on how bad you were.



(By the way, that stuff in the pool is supposed to be fire. I know I did a terrible job, but whatever.)

What do YOU wish heaven would be like? Tell me in your comments!