Besides, he's in the bad place, chewed too loudly.
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silvergoose posted:Besides, he's in the bad place, chewed too loudly. Was it Plato that chewed too loudly? Because... wasn't he a pederast?
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tarlibone posted:Was it Plato that chewed too loudly? Plato got dinged for being pro-slavery, Socrates was the loud chewer.
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Ishamael posted:So I know it's a TV comedy and not deserving of the nitpick treatment, but if Janet knows everything why didn't she know that the Good Place was broken, or that no people had been allowed to enter in hundreds of years? She knows who went to the bad place, as she showed at the beginning and again when she tells Chidi that Aristotle was in the Bad Place because of slavery. She knew everything about Earth and some basics that were relevant to the neighborhood, but she's never been wholly omniscient and was specifically shown in the latest ep as needing to download good place info
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Oh my mistake
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CarlosTheDwarf posted:A few strong closed eye magic mushroom trips will give you some answers as to the existence of the afterlife and what it is really like. Especially if you work at removing all hate from your life in between trips, especially self hate. Yeah we got it, Doug
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Klungar posted:Plato got dinged for being pro-slavery, Socrates was the loud chewer. And ugly, don't forget that.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:All of the major world religions have well-established doctrines about the afterlife not being the same as life on earth. Christians have the idea that we are given "heavenly bodies" which are not the same as our earthly bodies. Some schools of Buddhism have the idea that in nirvana, our consciousness actually ceases to be our own and melds/blends with everything else there. i've always thought of it that heaven would eventually turn into hell for anyone who still had a human, time-limited mindset, and if you became an angel or whatever who was totally jizzing about singing god's praises forever then that's not you anymore so it's not even you in heaven at all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZpZuIWu1tw
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Deep Space 9 already addressed this in the series finale with non-linear time beings. Jeremy Bearimy is a wormhole alien.
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luxury handset posted:i've always thought of it that heaven would eventually turn into hell for anyone who still had a human, time-limited mindset, and if you became an angel or whatever who was totally jizzing about singing god's praises forever then that's not you anymore so it's not even you in heaven at all i just explained, in the post of mine you yourself quoted, that christians don't believe anything like this. if you think heaven is some kind of nonstop church service ( ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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If I understand old testament/dead sea scroll biblical angels correctly, they are the one's doing all the worshipping and poo poo. Humans just kind of get to hang out, be happy, and bask in God's glory, it's the Seraphim who are constantly singing about how cool he is. The angels aren't just messengers, they *are* the infrastructure of heaven. Some of them are sent to earth to tell people important poo poo, others are just the wheels on the chariot that gets them there, and the Seraphim are basically just there to brag about how great He is.
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the dead sea scrolls are not canon in any of the abrahamic religions
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the dead sea scrolls are not canon in any of the abrahamic religions Yeah, but they're cooler than the canon stuff. Isn't the only difference between the canon and non-canon stuff is that the orthodoxy didn't think the non-canon stuff was "on brand", or it wasn't known about at the time, so some of it got left out of the final books?
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Ah. Are the Dead Sea scrolls the ones where Luke marries Mara Jade and Chewie dies by having a moon crash into him?
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Mordiceius posted:Ah. Are the Dead Sea scrolls the ones where Luke marries Mara Jade and Chewie dies by having a moon crash into him? Those are the Dune Sea scrolls.
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It's tough to keep paradise working when more than one person is involved. For example, what happens when Simone arrives? Creating a near-duplicate Chidi, forcing Simone to not want to be with Chidi, or forcing her and Elanor to be enthusiastically okay with any particular arrangement all don't seem right.
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Klungar posted:Those are the Dune Sea scrolls. No those are the ones where the clone of Paul Atreides and the other clone of Paul Atreides fight each other and also a Terminator
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Thranguy posted:It's tough to keep paradise working when more than one person is involved. Doesn't have to be paradise anymore. That was the initial problem, that it was perfect. Simone arrives, things get weird for a few Bearimy's but they'll figure it out and be better for it. Things are allowed to be challenging now, it keeps the mind from turning to mush, and if it's too much for someone they can drown their sorrows in stardust milkshakes.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the dead sea scrolls are not canon in any of the abrahamic religions Surely the religious community that considered them cannonical was Abrahamic
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CarlosTheDwarf posted:A few strong closed eye magic mushroom trips will give you some answers as to the existence of the afterlife and what it is really like. Especially if you work at removing all hate from your life in between trips, especially self hate. Gonna need a team of psychiatrists and neurologists to unpack this paragraph
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MokBa posted:Gonna need a team of psychiatrists and neurologists to unpack this paragraph Its pretty simple actually. Hallucinogens make you hallucinate.
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Mordiceius posted:Ah. Are the Dead Sea scrolls the ones where Luke marries Mara Jade and Chewie dies by having a moon crash into him? No they're the ones that make you build giant robots and turn everyone into orange juice.
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Sub Rosa posted:Surely the religious community that considered them cannonical was Abrahamic I was responding to someone who said that the Dead Sea Scrolls had some kind of bearing on how Christians talk about the afterlife. They... don't. As for your question, answering it properly would require diving into the scholarship around the DSS. Yes, the people who wrote them were some kind of Jewish sect. But this doesn't necessarily say anything about how they viewed their writings. Some of the scrolls and fragments aren't even religious at all, such as the treasure map. If they did consider some of these writings as comparable in canonicity to books in what would eventually become the Hebrew Bible, you would be correct here. But then I feel like we'd also have to talk about how this sect died out like 2000 years ago. Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jan 28, 2020 |
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BioEnchanted posted:Yeah, but they're cooler than the canon stuff. Isn't the only difference between the canon and non-canon stuff is that the orthodoxy didn't think the non-canon stuff was "on brand", or it wasn't known about at the time, so some of it got left out of the final books? Really all they did was take all the Paul stuff and made it official, and take a couple scraps from everyone else to make them look relevant
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Finally watched the recent episode. It kinda fell flat for me, like a good chunk of this season. Oh well. I will always have Seasons 1-3.
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In regards to what to do with eternity, I wonder if anyone in the Good Place has used the "Janet gets you everything you ask for" to essentially create their own universe and their own version of life, essentially becoming gods themselves to Janet created beings. Probably beyond the budget of the show and they would probably get bored with it, same as the monkey go-carts. But it could be used to talk about the absence of any god in this show, they themselves are in a dead human created universe and their creator has had their brain turn to mush and has just wandered off somewhere. But that's probably one twist too far.
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I doubt it'd work, because even the show's central Janet (and her bad place analogue who had been reset a lot) had trouble keeping track of one neighborhood of Janet babies, so a regular Good Place Janet would most likely just create more blatantly stupid mush people who are about as entertaining or believable as a dead frog.
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Promo that ran during this weekend's SNL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmknVK0_ntQ
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Glad I watched that, thought it was on friday as usual. now I know to keep away from the thread tomorrow til it hits netflix
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Eh? New episodes have always premiered on Thursdays on NBC. I don't know when they show up elsewhere but it should be the same schedule as usual.
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Propaniac posted:Eh? New episodes have always premiered on Thursdays on NBC. I don't know when they show up elsewhere but it should be the same schedule as usual. OK, it's just that it doesn't go on Netflix til late Friday/early Saturdays for me.
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https://twitter.com/nbcthegoodplace/status/1222262589855424512
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My Afterdeath guessing: Many Jeremy Bearamys take place between these events. Jason goes first, getting bored with every small vehicle/animal combination. Tahani's family gets to the Good Place, they bond/make amends and go on together. Chidi becomes satisfied with his version of The Answer and decides to move on. Eleanor give a big crying speech to him that TOTALLY DOES NOT MAKE ME CRY but then Michael gives another speech that helps her feel a little better and I also DO NOT CRY AT THIS! Eleanor and Michael reach a stage where they're ready to go, leaving Janet behind to run the Good Place on her own. Alternatively, Janet reboots every Janet a bajillion times. and moves on with Jason. Thank you for reading my fan fiction.
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GigaPeon posted:Jason goes first, getting bored with every small vehicle/animal combination. I feel like even if he got bored of animal combinations, eventually he'd get caught in an infinite loop with Janet or one of his Jacksonville boys before he chose to take the door.
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Jameela is great. 👍 MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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D'Arcy has been posting BTS pics on her instagram, here are some of them:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() plus just a couple because this is a super good looking cast of people: ![]() ![]()
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Thranguy posted:It's tough to keep paradise working when more than one person is involved. Simone has been fine every time they break up, she doesn't need Chidi and certainly wouldn't buy into notions about predestination or soulmates or anything. Eleanor and Chidi have been through many lives together, it would be obvious from the outside it's an unusually strong bond and who wants to inherit that baggage even if they could?
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"The good place was the suicide we committed once we got bored."
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ashpanash posted:"The good place was the suicide we committed once we got bored we made along the way."
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# ? Feb 8, 2025 03:52 |
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tsob posted:I doubt it'd work, because even the show's central Janet (and her bad place analogue who had been reset a lot) had trouble keeping track of one neighborhood of Janet babies, so a regular Good Place Janet would most likely just create more blatantly stupid mush people who are about as entertaining or believable as a dead frog. *looks around Well, that explains everything
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