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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 - there's basically nothing in the Gospels that suggests the existence of ironic-punishment hell; the risk of being a bad person is that you die and are denied eternal life. Paul expands that a bit, but there's still not much about specific punishments for sins.
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Well, I wouldn't say that Jesus' repeated thing about people being "cast into the outer darkness, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth" is pretty easy to take literally
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Yeah, fair enough - though it did not seem to be the common interpretation of the early Christians. Especially because in context, that was a fate for people who were still alive on the day of judgment.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
And like, within that - the place itself is a bad one, where there's always screaming and fire and whatever. But that's because people are being killed there, not because people are being individually tortured forever.
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