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Jesus is waiting for you to wait for him.

Sometimes we refuse an action because the proposer isn't impressive enough. Sometimes we refuse a lot of actions for that reason, and then we get a feeling, not only would we prefer an indomitable personality to come up with all the ideas, but we are waiting for that personality to come along because they are coming. We just haven't set the stage for them yet.

Jesus is waiting for you to wait for him. When he arrives, he expects you to be sitting around in small circles, or gathered in large audiences, praying to his goodness and chanting his name. Doing basically, nothing. When enough of you are waiting around that Jesus decides it's time to bring you home, the gig is up. Over. Fini. Toss it into a lake of fire with a dragon. After all, there was nothing left worth saving except those who knew they were sorry, that it was a sorry sinful state.

Heaven is a concept. Never, ever in the concept of heaven, does heaven simply come to you because you expected it to. You are always expected to qualify for heaven through some sort of action. Is not one of the actions which qualifies you for heaven the act of trying to create it, here on this Earth while you still can? Isn't that the sort of attitude Jesus had, and aren't you as a follower supposed to try and emulate whatever it was made him such a better personality than had came before, before he gets here?

Heaven is a concept, and even if you don't believe in the Gods, the concept is generally of a goodness that everybody can agree upon. In heaven, there will be good food, happy people, benevolence and joy. There will be comfort, and all amenities will be provided in the most excellent manner, refined to the fullest.

In heaven, there will be an encyclopaedia of all the knowledge humankind has been able to discover. The encyclopaedia will be refined to the point where it cannot be refined any more. To ensure that refinement happens, all you need to do is wait for Jesus... He is waiting for you to wait for him... And once enough of you are waiting he will arrive.

Humans tend to believe technologies and concepts which enhance human life are always these mighty breakthroughs. Just look at the news. Mighty breakthroughs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sometimes technologies or concepts come out of nowhere and shock everybody, but for the most part, technologies and concepts are predicted, or they are simple alterations to previously existing understandings which have been waiting around for us to stumble over them.

Modern refrigeration technology by Europeans reached its first milestone in 1755 when scientist William Cullen experimented with vacuum, and discovered pumping all the air out caused refrigeration. A great discovery. Most systems today work by pumping the gas in the opposite way, compressing it. It took sixty years from the discovery of pumping the air out to create cold to discover that it could be refined through a technique of pumping the air the other way. Ad there are many avenues of refinement that just required blind experimentation and accidental discovery. So it pays to try.

Conversely to this is a situation known by the phrase, "science is linear". If you check this online and read something which says it disagrees, please read on a little. It will agree to some degree, merely cautioning you not to expect heaven to come to you without performing the necessary qualifications. Science is linear, and so is technology, methodology etc. You cannot guarantee to walk in a straight line and find the door you are looking for, but when you do find it and look back, you'll see a straight line.

Humans believe they are amazing for the state of the present day. Way more amazing than humans who came before. We believe this because the world is so much more amazing to live in, and humans are responsible for it, and the farthest refinements have been completed in the modern day by particular humans who are just so way more amazing for these refinements.

Of course, in the far past, what was amazing was things like the creation of weapons, the discovery of fire, clothing, and even plain old compassion and love for your family and community. I mean, how do humans just always create something out of nothing all the time? Well, you read Wikipedia, so you love or at least respect knowledge. Have you ever tried to figure it out? Well, put yourself in the place of the proto-humans. What would the generally activity be if you were a lot more human than monkey, but you were stuck in a forest with no lasting knowledge or even ability to communicate anything abstract. You'd spend a lot of time worrying about being safe. You'd spend a lot of time looking for food as it was not nearly as nutritious as our modern super-refined industry-friendly food sources. You'd spend time paying attention to your family and community, as apes tend to do, and the rest of the time you'd spend sitting around picking at your finger nails, because humans are fidgety, aren't they? You'd be picking, and you'd be turning stones over and throwing them and... BAM. You are throwing stones not because you are a scientist... but because you are human... You'd throw stones really hard and when you went back to picking your fingernails, one day you'd take a sharp stick and sort of pick at your skin with it. Uh oh! If you spend, let's say one whole life, throwing stones and examining sharp sticks, there are good odds you will wind up on the road to being a deadly spearsman, not because you are a scientist, but because you are human.

Animals learn mostly through observation of each other. If mommy and daddy were a deadly spear throwers, they'd have to be deadly spear makers too. And how did they make their spears deadly? First, they've got to figure out what wood is hard and what wood is soft, along with what happens when you rub hard and soft wood together to make something sharp and strong. Wait a minute... did somebody just rub two sticks together?? BAM BAM, you just set yourself on the road to discovering fire, not because you are a top scientist... But you are human, aren't you? Brains are dangerous, aren't they.

And the beat goes on. Play with it all day. You'll connect the dots for a lot of stuff. But you'll get to a point where you say, okay, so you're rubbing sticks, making shelters, even making glass and metal eventually (don't discredit how long it took to advance each step like from sticks and fire to metal, 2 million years, but it's linear, and a lot of that 2 million years was set back through circumstance such as being busy killing each other and being killed by other animals. disasters, etc, etc), but that's all in the past. There is no way you can link scientific discovery in the modern day as linear to things like rubbing sticks together. If science was like that, it would be more like a race than a series of discoveries, wouldn't it. Maybe there would be some evidence, that science took a lot of understanding to perform, but wound up being a load of simple steps that just needed found and taken.

Look at the history of the refinement of gunpowder technology. Technologies of magnetism. How even rumour causes equal discovers which represent huge steps in functionality result coincidentally in multiple separate regions, right down to the discovery of escape velocity capable rocketry, which is attributed to three separate science labs around the world.

Also look at how we present the history of science to ourselves. The method of sailing around the world, such as to get to the Americas, was not a shocking discovery. It was the ability to survive the journey. It would take you so long to get there that you'd all be dead, at least in any number capable of surviving an adventure of discovery. Think about that aspect. So many hundreds of years ago, Europeans could have easily sailed around the world in small numbers risking their lives, as humans did thousands of years before to populate all the distant islands. But they didn't. These torturous evil Europeans, wouldn't even waste a few hundred slaves to go forth and back on the oceans and bring real evidence of the boundaries, though more primitive humans were accomplishing that feat thousands of years before and Europeans were eager explorationists. So just how different and stupid do you believe, after all the stories, that these careful humans of our near past were? Not as different as we beg ourselves to believe.

So half the journey to heaven is believing it belongs here, where the humans are now, and picking at the sticks and stones until we find the steps to take.