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Eternity would be enough time to get used to torture, and on the flip-side, heaven would get pretty boring after while. Also, think about all the religious nut-jobs and hypocrites like Fred Phelps, Ted Haggard and Jerry Falwell. I don't think heaven would be all that enjoyable in the first place with fundies like them there. Yuck. Give me hell any day of the week. And how much fun could kissing the arse of a megalomaniacal tyrant for eternity be?
Actually, you wouldn't even be able to feel pain without a nervous system, and in hell you'd be without a body, and therefore without nerves, so you wouldn't feel pain from the supposed torture. This is a fact that the authors of the Bible were obviously unaware of.
Anyway, to answer your first question, personally I like experiencing pleasure, and if I'm dead I may not get to anymore. I never chose to have life, but I have it now, and it's the only one I'm guaranteed, so I might as well just accept it and make the most of it. Personally I choose to have fun with it -- within reason, of course. And, actually, there's no way to truly know what criteria by which God would let us into heaven. He may reward skepticism, and punish blind faith -- think about it, he gives each of us a brain capable of such great intelligence... maybe he is real, and is testing us to see if we use his gift to us properly. Believing he exists just on blind faith is not really using it at all, as it requires no thought. That may hurt his feelings. :P