How are you not a hedonist if you want to go to Heaven?

Answer 1

The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, is the idea in the study of ethics which points out on that pleasure and happiness are strange phenomena that do not obey normal principles. First explicitly noted by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics, the paradox of hedonism points out that pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly.
So we can't choose to go to Heaven, it is chosen or not chosen for us maybe......Geesh good question you posted

Answer 2

Hedonism is the pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.

Heaven is eternal life with God; communion of life and love with the Trinity and all the blessed.

Heaven is the state of supreme and definitive happiness, the goal of the deepest longings of humanity.

Supreme happiness and temporary pleasure are not the same things.

In fact one of the paradoxes of Christianity is that you cannot make yourself happy. You can only be happy by thinking (and acting) about God and others and not about yourself.

As Jesus taught in the Beatitudes:

Blessed (or happy) are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,
for they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the land.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the clean of heart,
for they will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.

Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
--Matthew 5:3-12

With love in Christ.