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What does it mean?
Heaven lacks interesting people.
In plain terms
All the interesting people are missing from heaven.
What can you take from it?
['absence', 'interest']

Where it applies

  • religious speculation
  • literary critique

Putting it to work

  • reconsider expectations of afterlife
  • value earthly experiences

Questions to consider

  • What makes a person 'interesting'?
  • Does eternity need excitement?

Another view

A humorous, subjective claim without evidence.

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  2. After the old god has been assassinated, I am ready to rule the world.

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  3. For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways of reason.

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