Is heaven running out of room?

One of the neat things about havin' a manic type personality, is that when the mind starts to slow down from the wild creative roller coaster ride, you find yourself in a very contemplative mood.

 The past week has been extremely exciting for me with a lot of creative ideas coming one right after another like a rapid fire machine gun. And now hopefully the ideas and designs will soon come to fruition.... And then this morning... the philosophical mind-set began which gives my head-brain a chance to slow down and kinda rest for a bit.

So when I woke up early around 12:30 AM, my first thought wasn't about designing a blue-tooth camera or a vibrating/talking bracelet that says "Thinking of you" but it was....."I wonder how many people have passed away since the beginning of time...and even more specific, "Is heaven gettin' full?"

So, with a quick search on Google, I found that some rough estimates, by greater thinkers than myself, calculated the number of persons, at least upright walking people, since about 50,000 B.C is around 110-120 billion, give or take a few thousand or so.

After bouncing that thought off of Pattye, who quickly commented, "Tom, you're wearing me out", I started thinking, where are all of those departed souls  living these days and is heaven gettin' crowded like some of the suburbs around here in Texas.

Since I grew up in the Catholic faith and spent every school morning studying catechism under the watchful eye of a nun, my interpretation, or at least the nun's interpretation of heaven,  that was ingrained in me, was that all of the good people who went to heaven  were walking around with colorful robes on and chatting while they passed through nice manicured gardens. And of course all of the bad people, were down below hangin' out with ole Beelzebub.

Well, let's just say for the sake of argument, that what......maybe 20 percent of the people ever born are truly evil and there is no way they are gonna have a chance to see "The Big Guy" after they pass away, that would mean there would still be somewhere around 100 billion walkin' around in those colored robes. 

And then I'm  thinkin', with all of those people up there, who in the heck gets the crap jobs in heaven like drivin' garbage trucks and cleanin' out porta-pottys. Maybe those jobs are for the not so good people who kinda' get to heaven but still need to pay for their misdeeds

I like it when I get in a contemplative mood. I like to be able to slow down the process and simply share my thoughts. But I really love it when the ole' head-brain gets ready for a new session. A time when my mind feels like it is on fire waiting to explode with innovations and ideas that might just work..they might just be the answer to a lot of the world's woes.

Oh well, just another day in my crazy-brain world.  Come join me some time!