On Paradise and Perfection

My tutor was talking about Paradise today, explaining that a lot of gardens are made to mimic "paradise", even though no one knows for sure what is paradise or how exactly does one create it. This being partly architecture class, of course it had to get all philosophical, and we ended up talking whether Paradise is boring..

 Firstly, when one talks about Paradise the image always seems to be this calm, blissful place, where the wind gently blows, the waves gently roll, the clouds gently float...

The thing is, this might mean there will be no excitement whatsoever in "Paradise" , since nothing must disturb this static, permanent condition. Well then, won't it be boring to have such a monotonous state, even if it's such a wonderful state? (Then again, I've never maintained a blissful, peaceful, excitement-less life long enough to know what it feels like..)

 Another thing, since Paradise by definition seems to be a place where everyone is 100% happy..hm..how would it feel, I wonder? I mean, say, if even one person is just 99.5% happy, it won't be "Paradise" anymore? How does it feel to be 100% happy, 100% of the time?

 Hm...a new train of thought.. isn't it funny that most of the people  who ask, "If there is a God, why is there so much suffering in the world?" are usually from comfortable, middle-class life.. the so-called "intellectuals" (ok, am a self-confessed pseudo-intellectual anyway..)

On the other hand, the actual people who are suffering, say in Africa, Middle East, rural Asia, are so open to embrace religion, for example the Christian fervour of rural China and Ethiopia.

 The pattern seems to be that humans under intense suffering hunger for something better, for happiness, for Paradise so much that they just want to grasp at whatever hope they are offered and can't be bothered with the "intellectual" cum "philosophical" questions of whether the Being that gives them hope is the exact same one that allows them their suffering?

 Believer's argument: Human instict is such that suffering will make them closer to God; it is those who are not suffering who can question God.

 Atheist argument: People from these areas are poor and poorly educated, which makes them dumb enough to believe in religion. (Dang I'm getting good at thinking like an atheist. Then again, one must know one's enemies...)