[ SECRET POST #4795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4795 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


Spoilers and CWs ahead!



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02. [SPOILERS for The Good Place]



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03. [SPOILERS for Sanditon]



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04. [SPOILERS for Guilded Age]



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05. [SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

[Graceling]


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07. [WARNING for discussion of substance abuse]



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08. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]



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09. [WARNING for discussion of abuse/assault]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of incest/underage/etc. Not the main topic but figured it might start discussion]
























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not a Christian and wasn’t raised as one or as religious generally, but since I’m white and grew up in the US I knew way more Christians than Buddhists. Also, I haven’t finished past season 2 of the show.

But hearing that most characters went through the door but (I think?) Tahani stayed behind made me think of bodhisattvas remaining in the world post-enlightenment to help others; and I only had one world religions class fifteen years ago that only briefly covered Buddhism.

So even though I personally don’t believe in an afterlife, but given the choice would stay there out of fear of ceasing to exist, I don’t think of the characters who went through the door as committing suicide, because I think that’s too narrowly Christian a worldview to describe what happened. In Buddhism, ceasing to exist as a discrete self is what happens when you reach enlightenment. Nirvana’s not Heaven/The Good Place. Nirvana isn’t a place of eternal peace or happiness at all. Nirvana is the dissolution of self.

[meadowphoenix]

right (i can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not so im clarifying), i agree the point was not suicide but the entire cycle was a simplified Buddhism, and i think people seeing it as glorifying suicide are being somewhat limited in their perspective.