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Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")

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God's You Saying, Ironic Made Me Just Think

Sota: What i think what got to me the most was this penultimate sentence paragraph, neil even as onils now in hell. Neil even knows that by being beyond god's awareness, because hell is the absence of god, he is not loved by god. In return. This doesn't affect his feelings either, because a love asks nothing, not even that it be returned. Like god, the omniscient, omnipresent god, has set aside a domain that he no longer pays any attention to and he's still there, simping for god. Sota: The only way to truly love god is to love god as god is and as this world is, which

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