Given that Jason was also briefly married to Tahani, not to mention all the reboots and at least one post-nuptial death (Jason’s), you’d think they’d at least have thought to renew their vows.
Given that Jason was also briefly married to Tahani, not to mention all the reboots and at least one post-nuptial death (Jason’s), you’d think they’d at least have thought to renew their vows.
Would you say you hated to see it go, but you loved to watch it leave?
In Florida, I think chainsaw bears are really a thing.
He already has millions of years of memories, and he was already wanting to end his existence before he “incarnated” as a human, so what’s the issue? Besides, even if he incarnated as a 21-year-old, nobody’s guaranteed even another 20 years at ANY age. He gets to be human “for as long as it lasts,” which is the same…
One key difference seems to be that Janet can’t see the future. Her past and her present are simultaneous, but they also expand with every new experience.
They would have to have created a fictional “real life” for him to remember instead, which would create its own problems. Either that, or have him arrive on earth as a baby...
Janet probably COULDN’T go through the door any more then Michael could, since it wasn’t made for Janets. However, if she eventually went to the Judge and played the same card Eleanor did for Michael - “Hey, I ALSO saved everybody in the universe!” - the Judge might follow precedent and make Janet a Real Girl.
We don’t really know; we only see glimpses of what he goes through (it’s odd that Janet seemingly doesn’t know how he’s doing, since she knows everything that happens as it happens).
It did. Michael gave it to Bad Janet, who gave it to all the other Janets, which is why they intervened to keep the Judge from erasing humanity.
If I had to justify it, I’d point out that the phrases “Damn it” (or “dammit”) and “God damn it” (or “goddammit”) have always been treated differently. You could say the former on TV long before you could say the latter, and on the networks I still think you can only bring God into it late at night.
Yeah, the Buddhist (or Hindu/Vedic, from which Buddhism arose) slant was pretty much made explicit; going through the door isn’t “suicide” or annihilation, it’s a transition from one form to another. My own go-to metaphor is raindrops rather than waves: there is the water above and the water below, and as a raindrop…
Jimmy Carter will get there soon (hopefully not for a FEW more years, though).
But who (or what) created the Judge? Hydrogen existed before she did, so who or what created hydrogen? The Judge administers the System, but there's been no indication that she initiated it.
It’s like when you find out that someone you like spending time with voted for Gary Johnson...
The same logic would lead to “No-one deserves to go to the Good Place, not for eternity at any rate.” There is so much bad in the best of us, and so much good in the worst.
Fun Fact: Walter Payton made it into the actual Good Place, but he refused to make a big deal about it so the guys in Accounting don’t have him on the books.
“Though I’m not sure why they think she’d help.”
That seems the most likely scenario, which argues against it being true.
The Buddha’s Three Noble Truths (if I recall correctly) are: (1) Life is suffering (and because of the cycle of rebirth, suffering is eternal); (2) The cause of suffering is desire; (3) There is a way to escape the cycle of rebirth (and end your suffering).
Clearly, the reason Jake and Amy never had “the Talk” about kids is Charles saying “You should make a baby! Right now!” every day since the two started dating.