(like I'm pretty sure even the conservative clergy in my town would have said "hey kid, you might go to Hell for not believing in Jesus but no, none of us think you're obliged to repeat the phrase 'I do not accept eternal damnation' every minute of every day for two years'")
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Yeah … I think you may have been the only person who thought that ...
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… possibly ever.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
You’re not alone. And the fun thing is that everyone’s issues are unique and different!
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Actually now that I think about it, I think constantly believing you have to perform repeated ritual actions in order to avoid hell might actually *be* one of the buddhist hells.
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There are a lot of them. I don’t think anyone has ever claimed to have a complete list.
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(And buddhist hells aren’t places where you are tortured so much as counter-productive thought-patterns and behaviours which you can get stuck in and end up torturing yourself)
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Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl
Yeah the idea of "ironic hell" like in The Good Place is very common in the Christian West but is much closer to being canon in Buddhism That said, there are still plenty of lurid descriptions of Naraka as a place where you're torn into pieces and scattered while conscious
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It came from the Greeks, right? It's a direct application of Sisyphus and other Greek mythology without any real precedent in Christian or Jewish scriptures.
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I mean, the rich man's Hell in Jesus' parable is "ironic" if only in a kind of blunt sense (he was well fed and comfortable his whole earthly life so his afterlife is burning with hunger and thirst forever)
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