Yeah, and I'm not a fan of Buddhism's views there. It's not part of my cultural context the way Christianity is, but if I was part of a Buddhist culture I could well imagine a show that criticizes the cultural exaltation of this the way TGP does heaven/hell in our culture
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I don't really have a religious framework for what I see as goals in religion. Nothing matches. I like reincarnation because you get to reroll, but I see the ultimate goal of existence as achieving maximum amount of what you desire and existing as long as you can
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The point is once you've maxed out, that's it, there's nothing else to do
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Then you reset, erase your identity but preserve your consciousness, and live a different life Sort of like Michael at the end
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The point of the Buddhist idea of samsara is that's what happens when you die normally Nirvana is what happens when your soul has learned everything it needs to learn
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TGP says that, that the only point of resets is to learn something from them, otherwise it's just more torture
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Yeah, I guess I just like life and hedonism enough to think that's not true Like if I could eternally relive my first party at college, the best D&D game I ever had, and playing KOTOR the first time, mindwiped after each, I think that'd be an ideal afterlife
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How is doing that on a perfectly repeated loop for eternity actually different from doing it once and then stopping
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Because it's eternal? I'm not sure I have an answer that's not tautological to this one
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Monsieur Poincarre wants a word https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem …
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Yeah if you think outside the human experience of time, everything is eternal The past, present and future are all equally real etc
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