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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Heterodox Asia‏ @jaspergregory 26 Mar 2017
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      I think i am going to have to wrap up my Hellology project for the time being.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      aw, hell, the fun was just beginning :)

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    3. Heterodox Asia‏ @jaspergregory 26 Mar 2017
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      I realized how much I would have to read before i had a date range for the abhidhamma tripitaka

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      Yeah, and I don’t think you’d get a good date even after unbounded reading.

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    5. Heterodox Asia‏ @jaspergregory 26 Mar 2017
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      I want a termininus ante quem

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      Yeah, which is hard enough; but you want it specifically for the texts discussing hell, and >

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      different bits of abhidhamma were probably written at quite different dates, which makes it that much harder.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      Most sane scholars believe that abhidhamma is quite a bit later than the other two pitakas, for whatever that’s worth

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    9. Heterodox Asia‏ @jaspergregory 26 Mar 2017
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      That's helpful

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      My impression as a total non-expert is that abhidhamma can’t be reliably dated relative to hell-texts of other religions :(

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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      It’s very roughly in that same range of “within a couple centuries of the putative birth of Christ”

      4:54 PM - 26 Mar 2017
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        1. Heterodox Asia‏ @jaspergregory 26 Mar 2017
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          The Apocalypse of Peter might turn out to be the Earliest attested Hell or perhaps Buddho-taoist stuff from China

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 26 Mar 2017
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          How are you defining hell? Various Mediterranean religions had similar things much earlier? http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsEGY.html 

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