Envisioning Heaven: No more donuts or football?

Lambano said:

I had an appointment with dental surgeon whose office was right next to a freshly made donut shop. The chocolate was still dripping off the donut.

I may have to go back. For the donuts, not for the molar extraction.

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I cured myself of donut shop donuts....
All It required a recipe.

I mixed, rolled, cut and proofed some donuts. Then fried them and glazed them with two glazes....even the donut holes.

They made the donut shop donuts taste like a mere shadow of what is really good.

Now these are gut bombs....super rich and are like a big comfy hug. There is nothing like them.
And you know beyond all doubt that these are fattening (so full of eggs and oil)
They are light as a feather until they hit your belly. They are breakfast just like Kings Brioche with Nutella or a scratch made Danish.

So you swear off the donuts as you are walking by....you know you don't need them. But....that's what the holes are for. So you just pop one or two in your mouth....after all it's not like it's a whole donut....just a taste mind you to help stave off the craving. But by the time you count all the holes you ate....you would have been better off with a whole donut or two....possibly three. They go down so fast....*sigh*

Yes,
Any meal at my house is an adventure. Sourdough pancakes with blueberries fresh off the bush, scratch Danish that literally screams "butter" and richness. Scratch pasta with fresh herbs grown on the deck....

If ever at a meal at my place....come hungry. Don't be shy or on a diet. Because after a truly satisfying meal the cheap imitations taste nasty anymore. Full of chemicals that stand out. The diet starts afterwards because nothing else tastes as good anymore. You don't want them as much as you used to.

Even just vanilla ice cream is not "average " here....mundane in the rest of the world. But I use vanilla beans. Good basic food doesn't have to be fancy with a million arcane things included to be good....I can make a plain glazed donut stand on its own and win out over the super fancy one next to it.

And I got a feeling heaven is a bit like that. Once you taste and see.....

Lambano said:

I had an appointment with dental surgeon whose office was right next to a freshly made donut shop. The chocolate was still dripping off the donut.

I may have to go back. For the donuts, not for the molar extraction.

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Sounds like my week. But sadly no donut shop.
I did get ice cream though.

I learned my lesson last time. I'm more careful with the tortilla chips.
(like broken glass on the unprotected gum)

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JohnDB said:

I cured myself of donut shop donuts....

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Reminded me of this.

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Conversation between Christian protester and
a doughnut shop patron. (customer)

Patron: What are you doing picketing a donut shop?
Protester: I'm protesting the sin of gluttony.
Patron: Why on earth would you do that?
Protester: Gluttony is a sin, this has to stop.
Patron: Not everyone who buys a donut is a glutton.
Protester: We can't say that for sure.
Patron: Don't you have gluttony at your church?
Protester: No, we kicked them all out, unless they would repent.
Patron: Wow, for eating donuts?
Protester: No, gluttony takes many forms.
Patron: Right, like a church pot-luck dinner?
Protester: Exactly, they are banned at our church.
Patron: Did you know that some people are born with
weight-gain issues they will never get ahead of?
Protester: That's no excuse. Sin is sin.
Patron: You look exhausted, can I buy you a donut?
Protester: Sure, just don't tell the church.
Patron: Your secret's safe with me.

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St. SteVen said:

Sounds like my week. But sadly no donut shop.
I did get ice cream though.

I learned my lesson last time. I'm more careful with the tortilla chips.
(like broken glass on the unprotected gum)

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My wife is trying to kill me slowly with the crunchy stuff she hides in the salad. The chopped almonds and carrot shreds lodge perfectly and snugly between my two upper back teeth on the right side. I don't feel safe, and I have an uncomfortably intimate relationship with these things:

BarneyFife said:

My wife is trying to kill me slowly with the crunchy stuff she hides in the salad. The chopped almonds and carrot shreds lodge perfectly and snugly between my two upper back teeth on the right side. I don't feel safe, and I have an uncomfortably intimate relationship with these things:

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I like the floss picks.
Not much fun this week, but in general.

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Lambano said:

Amen to that!

But no donuts? How can Heaven be Heaven without donuts?

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I remember when Homer Simpson went to Hell !
The Devil said to him, Well Have all of the Donuts in the world !
Homer was hooked up to a machine forcing him to eat Donuts 2 at a time !
Homer was saying More More !
The Devil was perplexed scratching his head thinking what's going on.
Homer had eaten all of the Donuts in the world ! and still wanted more !

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There's more that we don't know about heaven than we do know about it. I remember one testimony of someone who went to heaven. He said he didn't know what the people did, but it was just a very creative, productive environment. I think our nature will be changed, so what
gave us joy on earth may not necessarily be what brings us joy in heaven. Some things will be familiar to us, like music, but many more things will be different. Whatever the case may be, I think it will be impossible to get bored because boredom is of the flesh.

Adrift said:

Praising God is a wonderfulI thing, but I would think that, even God, would tire of that after a few thousand or million years.

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This doesn't seem to be the case. Rev 4:8 makes mention of four creatures praising God continually day and night. I suspect they're getting something in return and that it's not all one-sided. Imagine if praise gave a euphoric high all the time; you would never want to stop. God gets joy from praise, and we will get joy from giving it.