Completely agree with @Annaleen about the ending to True Detective: http://io9.com/what-the-hell-kind-of-ending-was-that-true-detective-1540629251?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow … Highly spoilery, obviously.
@tomcoates @lantern as an existentialist Buddhist who has tried to find reasons to endure I related to it! Everything is awful, yet love
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@avantgame@lantern To me it just felt like he might have felt like that beforehand after thinking about it, but after?! -
@tomcoates@lantern he had a near death experience. He is a classic example of Post traumatic growth ! -
@avantgame@lantern But it wasn't like crashing a car or something and discovering that he liked being alive………. -
@tomcoates feel@way differently than me so that's interesting -
@avantgame Yeah it's confounding but extremely interesting.
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@avantgame@lantern I guess I'd have bought a desperate feeling, slightly unconvincing optimism or a horrified blackness, but genuine hope? -
@tomcoates@lantern that kind of transcendent experience commonly provokes post traumatic@growth including new spirituality -
@avantgame@lantern God how awful. I hope that doesn't happen to me. I like being secular, atheistic and free of spiritual cruft. -
@tomcoates@lantern I don't think theism is required for spirituality! Fortunately. -
@avantgame@lantern I don't think I really understand what it is when people talk about spirituality. -
@tomcoates@lantern not religion necessarily but asking big questions about life, death, cosmos, connection. Some of it is hokey I guess -
@avantgame That all sounds a bit like having some perspective, personal insight, maybe being a bit left-wing to me.
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