It's extremely rare to find a great show that will make you both think and laugh 🤔

Being someone who tries to be good has always been the thing that actually makes you a good person. The Bible and other religious traditions pointed this principle out millennia ago. However, it's good to remember that actions are often closely tied to your inward motivations too. If you strongly believed that there was a valuable treasure buried in some location, you wouldn't be content to just leave it there, you would go out and actually find it. That's partly why many religions generally focus on prescriptions over just telling you to try and be better inwardly.

I find it rather worrying that so many people on Lemmy and in general seem to be more motivated by their dislike of things than by finding the good in things and trying to cultivate that good. The latter requires the uncomfortable work of being open and vulnerable with what you believe while the former simply requires that you be closed off and is, I think, indicative of moral and intellectual rot.

Anyway, I don't watch tv shows at all, but if I did, I'd imagine I'd like The Good Place.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @philosophy @psychology @humor @aiop @joinin Brilliant show. I am not sure I have a favourite part - everything was thought provoking. The ending was superb.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @philosophy @psychology @humor @aiop @joinin the whole Bad Janet storyline was fabulous

@NickEast_IndieWriter @philosophy @psychology @humor @aiop @joinin It’s such a brilliant, humane show, and one of the few that really stuck the landing.

And one if my favourite bits is all the time Janet says “Not a girl”.