Spoilers ahead! We welcome David, a fellow Berkeley Wardian, as guest to the show today to talk about the final episode of the Good Place and its parallels with LDS views on redemption and exaltation
The Good Place
https://www.nbc.com/the-good-place
Sacred time vs. profine time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return_(Eliade)
The Seven Deadly Heresies, by Bruce R. McConkie
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie/seven-deadly-heresies/
Fair mormon question
https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Do_Mormons_believe_that_there_is_there_progression_between_the_three_degrees_of_glory%3F
Eternal Misfit, by Roger Terry
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V43_N03_188.pdf
Gospel Principles, Exaltation (includes President Joseph Fielding Smith quote)
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-47-exaltation
Apotheosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
Michael Schur: “As long as you’re trying, you’re on the right path.”
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-good-places-moral-message-changed-as-much-as-the-ch-1837096810
Stormlight archive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stormlight_Archive
No exit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought, by X.J. Kennedy
https://www.poemtree.com/poems/NothingInHeavenFunctions.htm
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