My thoughts on the Metaphysics of S3
[b]As for Hogtown, it could be that it’s not the adjucationists’ punishment that we’re looking at, but those subject *to* the adjucation… [/b]
Actually, since seeing that episode, I’ve had a sneaking suspicion that the adjudicators were reincarnated Brunnen-G, paying the price for their love of endless bureaucracy. My suspicion was prompted by the adjudicator who hums the Brunnen-G tune to himself when Kai steals his balloon (since that was the song they sang when they are about to die).
[b]Now, about Water, there isn’t a God figure because the Beans may believe that a true paradise doesn’t require supervision (I mean, really, why would it?). All of the needs of the denizens are provided by people whose love is to provide those needs, and if they’re killed, they come back in paradise again with no memory of being killed.[/b]
I have to agree with this point, that Heaven and Hell don’t correspond exactly with the Christian interpretation of those places. After all, in Christian theology, God IS the point of Heaven and Hell, but in Buddhism, for instance, the fact of the existence of God is not taken for granted. So the Beans have definitely put their own spin on it.
And they’d probably laugh their heads off at us, if they saw this conversation.
BTW, DT, how can you POSSIBLY look at that gigglingly obscene watering can and NOT see a penis? [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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