![]() ![]() These last few episodes have shown meaning literally under construction as the afterlife is reformed and reconstructed to be compassionate. Carefully and quietly, (Maya Rudolph’s judge not withstanding,) The Good Place has shown that in a Godless universe, we must make our own meaning. There is no higher authority to nudge or chide them. They have no guidance in this, only each other. So she chooses what is hard to let him go. ![]() Chidi chooses to stay rather than make her suffer, but she can only suffer if he stays because she can’t bare for him to suffer. The idea of an afterlife as a paradise without suffering crashes against the human need for free will. Despite all their love for each other and all their kindness, their needs and desires can’t align. The wave returns to the ocean, where it came from, and where it’s supposed to be.“īut Eleanor doesn’t want him to go. That’s one conception of death for a Buddhist. The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while. “ Picture a wave in the ocean: you can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts… and then it crashes on the shore and then it’s gone. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |