how would we hold races in heaven???

If it was a 5K, that would be hell.

I can not tell you long I've been pondering the same thing. I'm so happy someone else brought it up. It makes hell so much more appealing. To answer your question, it's going to work out by there being no heaven and accepting our place in the cosmos. Sorry if this differs from your beliefs.

because you dont race against other people from heaven douchebag. everyone knows they hold the stellar olympics every 40000 years. Heaven vs Hell vs Purgatory. Only one entrant per team per event.

theologian wrote:

so how is this gonna work out??

I win & you go to hell.

I believe the Purgtorians set a new 4 x 20 parsec record with 5 eons flat this past weekend . Hand timed of course but you know who's hand it was. Hellions DNF

theologian wrote:

so how is this gonna work out??

For Heaven's sake, they better hope that the triangular meets are held at home. The facilities and conditions in the underworld are Hell.

Here's the images you meant to link to:

http://www.danteinferno.info/gallery/images/danteinf3515.jpg

both you and i would finish together holding hands, that makes both of us winners!!

in heaven, the last shall be the 1st. losers are winners in heaven.

Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that the experience of a 5k race in heaven could possibly be any better than one on earth.

Running is a chance to experience heaven on earth. It doesn't matter whether you PR or have the worst race of your life. The point is that you get to be out there, competing, finding your body's limits, breathing the fresh air, etc. There are no losers, only winners and non-winning competitors. Do you think Alan Webb is a loser because he came in 8th? No way. His life is f***ing awesome. He gets to run for a living. And next year he'll get to represent his country at the Olympics. At the same time, Webb not being a loser doesn't mean that Bernard Lagat can't be a winner.

I guess if running in heaven were different, it would be because people wouldn't be so hampered by excuses, jealousy of people who beat them, or other negative feelings related to running. In heaven, running would only involve the good stuff.

Damn goblins. The hellfire throw warmup doesn't start for antoher 45 mins.

Master of Class wrote:Here's the images you meant to link to:

http://www.danteinferno.info/gallery/images/danteinf3515.jpg

In Heaven we will all be relieved of our need to perform well in track. We simply won't care that we aren't fast. We will be too absorbed by the awesomeness of everything to have any time to pay attention to something so small as a footrace.

I like your logic. Going with that, the conclusion must be that either heaven does not exist or heaven does exist but without any running. If the latter is true, then we must conclude that our happiness is not based on running, and therefore we are forced to conlude that the idea that we gain happiness on Earth through our running is false, and therefore, running actually makes me miserable, which is much more realistic, IMHO.

Theres a 5K this weekend in Iowa

It would be a dead heat between all of the runners.

POTD. Beautifully put.

If both the runners are crazy enough to believe in heaven, then both are crazy enough to believe that two people could finish first in a race.

heaven will be so much better than anything we can imagine. i'm not sure if there will be running in heaven or not. it might be that there will be something better and more fulfilling to do than running.

Hell already has a race:

http://www.ws100.com/