Good Day World!
Simply put, paradise is a term for a place of timeless harmony.
There are many versions of paradise.
Christians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and followers of Islam all have their own versions.
Individuals often have their own concept of what paradise looks like. I know I do, but before I share that with you, what’s your version of paradise?
“The Abrahamic faiths associate paradise with the Garden of Eden, that is, the perfect state of the world prior to the fall from grace, and the perfect state that will be restored in the World to Come.
In old Egyptian beliefs, the otherworld is Aaru, the reed-fields of ideal hunting and fishing grounds where the dead lived after judgment.
For the Celts, it was the Fortunate Isle of Mag Mell.
For the classical Greeks, the Elysian fields was a paradisiacal land of plenty where the heroic and righteous dead hoped to spend eternity.
The Vedic Indians held that the physical body was destroyed by fire but recreated and reunited in the Third Heaven in a state of bliss.
In the Zoroastrian Avesta, the "Best Existence" and the "House of Song" are places of the righteous dead.” (Source)
SO WHAT IS MY VERSION OF PARADISE?
A lush landscape. Unpolluted air. A place where I’ll be reunited with friends and family forever.
There’ll be free high-grade marijuana plants growing in endless rows with vaporizer stations nearby with compassionate bud tenders.
Led Zeppelin will be playing “Stairway to Heaven” while we all dance the days away. Oh yeah, and there won’t be any politicians, or lawyers, to harsh our highs!
Time for me to walk on down the road…
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