But they feel free to imagine that for someone like Hitler, this purge can't happen until he's been imprisoned for longer than the age of the universe, and the process of having to change enough to no longer bear that karma feels like being burned alive
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fiddlersgreen92 and
huh that's kinda like that stupid short story I wrote
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @fiddlersgreen92 and
You might be into Adam Cadre's game Endless Nameless I still think a lot about him using the Lower Realms from Buddhist mythology as a metaphor for fiction and involvement in discourse surrounding fiction, leading to his decision to quit doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
He directly says being an Internet troll is the equivalent of being in Hell, that trolls are denizens of Naraka, not even truly sentient or alive, just insatiable loci of hunger and pain that corrupt everything they touch and must be sealed from the rest of creation to protect it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(And the people who seriously consume and discuss fiction are the preta lota, the realm of hungry ghosts, who are capable of understanding true life and desiring it but can't participate in it because they aren't real enough)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(And those who genuinely create fiction are the asura lota, the realm of demons, with powers enough to defy the gods, who can warp the world of the senses at will to satiate any desire)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
(But the asura are in a realm *below* ours, not above it They torment humans because they envy us, because we possess the capacity to escape samsara and they do not Because it is only through weakness and humility and suffering that it is possible to truly change)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
For an asura to become capable of nirvana they must pass through human life first They must surrender their power and their identity and become mortal, vulnerable to harm, vulnerable to death It is a threshold few of them can bear to cross Their great power is their prison
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
This is, in this context, Cadre deciding that while his plaudits for creating great works of interactive fiction did in fact make him better than the trolls and critics he was trying to rise above, it wasn't making him happy and it was time to quit and go outside
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Oh lol shit I didn't realize this actually is exactly the ending of The Good Place
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If we're going with the interpretation that Michael is Michael Shur's self insert, and his job as Architect in TGP is a metaphor for the process of writing a TV show His eventual fate is just that age old message that real life is deeper and messier and richer than any art
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Any story, however cosmic and surreal, is just some ordinary human's way of grappling with the deep existential mysteries at the heart of even the most mundane seeming life And is ultimately of less consequence than what he does in that life
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