The Case For a Boring Afterlife (The Good Place)

If I had to choose a world within the show's limits, it would be the good place but then I'd go through the green door to manifest the life that you described the medium place as🤓think smarter not harder (actually tho good video lol)

"A medium world where it's not mind-numbingly peaceful, but also not so bad that the problems become world-shattering."

…so a sitcom. Heaven is a sitcom where you're the main character. That sounds incredibly accurate.

1:12 missed opportunity for a Derek joke 😂

Are we in hell?

your analogy for boredom actually works perfectly when you take into consideration that in the hierarchy of emotions, boredom is suggested to be a lesser form of disgust

Dawg I have the exact same bottle of hot sauce as the one in 9:40

literally the whole point of the Good place test at the end of the show is to allow for self actualisation, you grow there in emotional intelligence and maturity until you become a more fulfilled and complete person. Instead of making the good place right for you, they make you right for the good place. By the time you reach the good place you wouldn't become one of the zombies, you would choose to continue to learn and grow and pursue your future, because the show has a very positive view on humanity and who we are in the right conditions.

The internet's only available in Hell well s*** I want to go to hell now

The real cocaine was the friends we made along the way.

YOURE 40? I THOUGHT YOU WHERE LIKE 27 MAX

I def remember Agent Smith speech.
But Alduous Huxley did the same in BRAVE NEW WORLD.
they tried a society with all Alphas.
They annihilated each other.

I disagree with the Good Place being boring as the show describes it. Humans come out with new inventions, new discoveries, new theories etc all the time. There will always be a new show, new idea, new whatever for you to play with or you could just literally watch human life. Like the discovery channel. lol. Also its a choice not to continue your work. Like if you were a writer then why would you stop writing books? You can ask for resources rather than answers. And there will be new people going to the good place to get to know. Well new people in version 2 of it that is. Which I do agree the reincarnation to learn your mistakes until you get into the good place is a good deal. And why not have clubs, sports, etc? Sure you can change yourself to be the best but cmon. Wheres the fun in that? I feel like the good place residents are blah cuz they brought it on themselves.

My point is even if you get your every wish granted, there will always be stuff to do. I think Hollywood thinks that way is cuz they did get everything they ever could want. But they never focused on a skill, purpose, career to enjoy life. Or worse they lost that love for the skill. Selling out gets your money but leaves emptiness which is why I think every story about eternal life ends with "dont do it man. you wont like it. Trust"

Also I feel like unemployed life is medium place life lol. Its not bad. Its basically being eternally human. But I could not be eternally alone.

Wait you 40? Bro. I would of guessed early 30s at most. Late twenties at least.

10:38 Sounds like a ground hog day situation.

18:17 Honestly sounds like more normal life minus the hassle of resource acquisition and the need to trade for it.

Like honestly that kinda place with the means to create and something like an infinite catalogue of things, like say a netflix of every film and show, then other activities to do, but unlike the good place, it doesn't come to you, you have access to it in your house or domain, but everything there you have to sorta build yourself if you want it.

Like those plants or the furniture ect, the world gives you a mediocre baseline, but then leaves the tools for you to improve it over time.

22:18 Nah, you'd need to be tailored. But having a door that opens for a chunk of time where a community area exists for a time each day where you can choose to go, would be good. It fufills both needs without compromising either.

Since the good place gives you exactly what you want, doesn't that mean you're basically your describing your own version of the good place

The point in having an opportunity to vanish yourself in the afterlife 'heaven' is the same point in why some countries have allowed eldery to choose and pass away after certain age. In this meaning, existence it self is in constant cycle. Between suffering and not-suffering, we drive our lives and try enjoy some stuff while struggling to other. But at time goes by in heaven, you will understand that existing is also in cycle with non-existence. Also the not-living state (even if there is an afterlife) is also not having the experience either of suffering and not-suffering feelings. The whole point of The Good Place Show is to dialogue about how humans, their ethics, their morality and their free will deals with an afterlife in infinite time-space as "hell" or "heaven" would have, and sure, making fun of it. Even hell wouldn't be so bad if you don't know what you are missing. When you don't have free will or when you couldn't know were your past decisions would lead you at end, that changes nothing AFTER the end of your life. I wouldn't blame myself to go to hell if I couldn't EVER know what is the bad place's policy to not go into it. When there is a bet without explicit rules before the result, you don't bet, or you may bet thinking "whatever it's just luck than"… So, in my opinion, either good and bad places doesn't make sense, you should do good because that is what is less bad in a general sense and just that. So if there is the balance place, or a reincarnation line I would choose to go there.

15:53 the medium place is worse because you get nothing while you're there except boredom and isolation. Trust me, it will psychologically break you within 1 year.

14:07 bruh. They're literally immortal and get to do everything they ever wanted no matter how insignificant, spend eternity creating art, master every skill you ever wanted to learn, eat any food you ever wanted to eat, sleep in the mud or something else weird.

And then once your human mind can't take eternity anymore, when you grow tired of existing and you've had your fill, you can just simply move on and get put back into the earth basically restarting your cycle.

Also you have another option they don't really bring up except in the bad place, memory wiping. Just clear your mind once every few hundred years and enjoy everything all over again, you can even leave specific memories behind if you wanna keep them.

5:40 nitpick time! It's not heaven, this is pretty expressly stated many times, there's also no hell either. Those are human notions, it's just a good and bad place.

There's also the fact that the beings working in the bad place aren't demons, they actually consider being called a demon to be kind of a racist slur, which is why they always call each other that.

I like to think the door sends you BACK to life. you get reincarnated to learn something or to complete some purpose. Then you get to go back to the good place. Or you live in the middle place and then you get like a two month vacation once a year to the good place 😂

Earth is the Medium place, now we gotta actualize it.

Couldn’t you use Janet in the Good Place to make your good place more of a medium place? Like ask for a smaller house, ask for a laundry machine to do it yourself instead of just asking for clean clothes, ask for medium entertainment, etc?

This is a good case for reincarnation

havent finished the video yet. the best afterlife is life now. enjoy it friends

HES 40???????????????

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