Ascension and Inertia

I went to see father Bob some time and in a possible good fortune avoided the trap of "confirmation bias" ie thinking all Catholic priests (indeed Catholocism) is as good as father Bob (or for that matter Father Ted).
Instead on the first attempt I had to sit through a lecture delivered by some other priest who was inarticulate, old and conservative. His inspirational sermon was about how we should all concentrate on heaven every day and know how good it will be, and in knowing this strive to earn our place there.
Now that is not really a synopsis, that was more or less all he said. Inspiring? no. Infact it made me realise what a useful term 'Heaven' is to bandy about. It's impossible as a notion to reject because it is by definition, undefined, similar to concepts of 'perfect' or 'Eutopia' or 'Art' the exact level to which one satisfies our criteria is left for each imaginer to imagine for themselves.
Example - my idea of heaven would probably involve being a member of a crime fighting basketball troop that went around solving complicated strategic problems and realising it through some kind of divine basketball tournament in a futuristic fun park.
My mother's idea of heaven probably involves heaps of 'nice shit' like blue and white china, speghetti marinara, tuscan countryside and Marie Claire magazines.
if through some hilarious mishap we were to go to eachothers eternal paradises we would probably be in for a royal shit time.
Other terms that work like this are 'terrorist' and 'unaustralian/unamerican' actually unaustralian makes me laugh when I hear it.
Suffice to say some times romantic escapism has its place I used to wonder as a little child what if Gravity gave out one day and we just fell into the sky, holding onto the grass desperately.
As I got older the musing possibly became dumber or more sophisticated, like a massive object such as the moon falling to earth and destroying the atmosphere or some shite.
Anyway I saw this video clip and the way they shot the divers made me understand the whole 'taken up' thing, what a wonderful way to avoid the pain of death to experience that trampoline sensation as gravity takes hold of you and your upwards momentum diminishes to zilch and you start accelerating towards the mat. But to just have that situation reversed.
Nowonder martyrdom is such an attractive option, good going religion.