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've read one scholar (Christian) who argued that Christ's "cast into Hell" remarks were idiomatic at the time for "thrown in the garbage"
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Yeah the "Hell" in the parables is the word "Gehenna", which is literally just the name of the place outside Jerusalem where trash was dumped and burned
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
wait are you saying Christ started cancel culture? ...i'll see myself out
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Replying to @segfaultvicta @arthur_affect and
I believe the piece I read did in fact draw parallels with contemporary slang around trash, including the AAVE that would give rise to "cancel" Again, I can't vouch for the scholarship personally
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