• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Heaven only works for them if they imagine that they will be able to look down and see hell.

    See, this is the part I can’t get behind. An eternity of that disparity with even the smallest scrap of empathy would eventually be unending torment. Every day is just more “oh yeah, hell is a thing and I can’t do anything about it…”

    • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Fr, I knew for fact that there was something deeply fucked up about “The Good Place” in the TV show bearing the same name when Janet played Eleanor a short clip of sound from the Bad Place.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      no but see it’s not about the actual luxuries and flourishing or whatever; it’s about the gini coefficient they get to enjoy. it’s like the dude in the shipping container from ‘disco elysium’, but theological.