I agree with this take.https://twitter.com/TellerGrim/status/1227747015792021504 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I'll be honest and say The Good Place ending may genuinely have triggered some suicidal ideation in me by accident. It didn't last very long (about a day) but it did happen.
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Replying to @nivenus
I'm so sorry :( but that's exactly why I object to it, and basically all atheist "realistic" approaches to death (which is what this is) when they try to suggest somehow the (likely true) atheist theory of death is superior to the positive idealized religious afterlives
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @nivenus
I mean, it's literally the Buddhist approach to death though
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Nirvana means escaping the cycle of samsara, you die one last time and don't come back
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus
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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I think the point of the door is that once you've done everything you want to do, the idea of not existing as a conscious being becomes significantly less frightening. Reminds me of one of my favourite TP quotes: 'do you want to live forever?' 'Dunno, ask me in 500 years'
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Again, I feel like TGP really strongly makes this point with Jason's final destiny Existing when you're finally done isn't unbearable or painful, which is why being done except for just one thing (giving Janet the necklace) allows him to live for 10,000 years
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