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👉 Common directory name

C:/7th/

👉 Common directory name

C:/7th-heaven/

👉 Okay, settle yourselves down, let’s tackle this one. People throw around the ladainian heave—that is, the wonderfully ridiculous expression of 7th heaven a whole bunch these days and frankly, most folks just use it as a vaguely pleasant-sounding superlative. But there's some seriously weird history bubbling underneath that pretty phrase.

Basically, 18th and early 19th-century Protestants (the ones with a real jones for the theological extreme) would actually get quite upset about depictions of supposed afterlives . They really, deeply worried about any portrayal of paradise being too… lavish. Too… abundant! You see, they were sticklers for the Puritanical concept that earthly wealth and pleasure were basically the devil's own trick to distract you from genuine godly servitude. "7th heaven," originally, wasn’t meant to describe a glorious afterlife. Instead, it was a deliberately overblown description of the worst possible depiction of paradise. Think, "The picture of that blasted shepherdess with her overflowing fields and eternal youth? It's practically 7th heaven in its sickening smugness! She is flaunting God’s bounty for the sole pleasure of the wicked!" Essentially, it was a term to mock over-the-hill religious art. To express exasperation about what they perceived as blasphemous portrayals of divine bliss. It was saying: "Oh, that depiction? That's so ridiculously,