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** Since Joe is a regular customer, Dez probably put it simply on his tab.
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** Since Joe is a regular customer, Dez probably put it simply on his tab.
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22 landed in the poor side of China.
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** When 22 was last seen they were on course to land somewhere in Western China (the poorest area of the country) with cloud cover making it impossible to see where exactly. exactly, in a region populated by Uyghur (an oppressed minority). So that's two three of those things right off the bat, three if 22 is also born as an Uyghur.bat.
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** Therapy animals are often owned by volunteers. Probably the cat's owner was the one looking for him, and she has nothing to do with the hospital chasing down Joe.
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Uyghurs come from Xinjiang, West China.
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** When 22 was last seen they were on course to land somewhere in Western China (the poorest area of the country) with cloud cover making it impossible to see where exactly. So that's two of those things right off the bat.bat, three if 22 is also born as an Uyghur.
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** The You Seminar probably has it's own way of simulating sight and sound for its residents, otherwise all the things they do to help them find their Spark would be a lot harder. Though that begs the question as to why they don't simulate the other senses, since Joe proves pretty definitively that a lot is missed without the full set. As for Joe's reaction to the bite, it might have been instinctive; he expected it to hurt, so he reacted as if it did, not immediately registering that it didn't.
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** Considering they normally seem to vet who they hire as mentors (note that they tend to be successful people) and otherwise give little to no exposure to the new souls what Earth is like (count how many times 22 is amazed by Earth--that's how many things are missing from the You Seminar, and that's just what we see), such souls are probably sheltered from how much life on Earth can kinda suck.
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** When 22 was last seen they were on course to land somewhere (cloud cover makes it impossible to say exactly) in Western China, which is the China (the poorest area of the country.country) with cloud cover making it impossible to see where exactly. So that's two of those things right off the bat.
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** It’s also possible that the person or animal that 22 is eventually born into will be her(his/their) future family’s reason to look for and work towards a better life.
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** He could just be happy with his job as a sign spinner on earth, it allows him to do his other job of saving lost souls which is important and he gets to makes some money and live/visit the earth doing it.
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** Jerry is non binary.
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* It’s possible Joe and his mother figured out how to pay his bill together after they celebrated Joe being alive. As for why the hospital was only looking for a cat, you got me?
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22 was bound for Western China, the poorest part of an authoritarian (at best) regime.
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[[folder: It's quite impressive that 22 was an outlier in not wanting to go to Earth.]]
* When you think about it, the odds of being born into a good life are not very good. One could be born into a totalitarian country, be born into poverty, be born as a second-class citizen, or be born to abusive parents. It's quite hard to appreciate nature when you're born into one of those situations.
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** I think Dez might've given him the haircut "on the house", because he had already told someone else to wait because he considered it an emergency when he saw Joe's messed up hair.
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** I think Dez might've given him the haircut "on the house", because he had already told someone else to wait because he considered it an emergency when he saw Joe's messed up hair. Plus, considering how much Dez appreciated the conversation he just had with "Joe" (really 22), would probably be another reason for Dez to give the haircut for free to Joe.
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[[folder: No taste, smell or touch in the Great Before, but...]]
* Joe learns that they can't taste, smell, or even feel any pain in the Great Before, because those are human things, but they can still hear? And see? Those still need ears and eyes. Not to mention Joe reacted when one of the souls bit him shortly after arriving, but shouldn't he have noticed that it didn't hurt?
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** Perhaps the shock of the fall gave him a heart attack? That would explain why he has no visible injuries or brain trauma. [[FridgeHorror Maybe his health issues will arise later on in his life due to his incident.]]
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* Also, even as a cat, its most people's courtesy to not walk in on others while they're bathing. Even though 22 is technically in his body, it's probably still a habit to not be in there with her. Also, he's letting her enjoy the wonders of life, and what's better than a hot uninterrupted shower?
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** Terry doesn't really have ''any'' indicators of being male. There is no TertiarySexualCharacteristics or BizarreSexualDimorphism at play here either; the Counselors, and Terry as well, are literally non-indicative scribbles with no distinction between which ones could be male or female, and that's if any even identify as either/or in the first place. None of the Counselors seem to hold it in much importance, and since they don't see bound by Earth's rule, Terry's gender may very well be a question mark.
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** Joe may not be the first person to try to reject death, but he may have been the first to ''successfully'' evade it in centuries. Given how well run the Great Beyond seems to be, it's likely that most people in Joe's situation panicked in the same way he did when he first died and manage to end up in The Great Before, but, unlike Joe, explain their situations, and, after being calmed down, sent to the Great Beyond, coming to terms with their deaths.
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* The whole thing with Joe giving death the slip is treated as something that's never happened before, but I'm positive other souls have rejected death before Joe and probably tried to escape. Even if they didn't succeed, it still seems strange that Joe is the only soul freaking out and trying to escape. Also, what about near-death experiences? Are NDEs souls that escaped death?
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, they lose it as a tool to motivate him. It seems they've seen NDEs before and are unsurprised by Terry overreacting, hinting this happens a few times. Terry says "This hasn't happened for a thousand years!" Then the Jerrys look at each other as if to say HereWeGoAgain.
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, they lose it as a tool to motivate him. It seems they've seen NDEs before and are unsurprised by Terry overreacting, hinting this happens a few times. Terry says "This hasn't happened for a thousand years!" Then the Jerrys look at each other as if to say HereWeGoAgain.
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* The whole thing with Joe giving death the slip is treated as something that's never happened before, but I'm positive other souls have rejected death before Joe and probably tried to escape. Even if they didn't succeed, it still seems strange that Joe is the only soul freaking out and trying to escape. Also, what about near-death experiences? Are NDEs [=NDEs=] souls that escaped death?
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, theylose use it as a tool to motivate him. him to help out Soul 22. It seems they've seen NDEs [=NDEs=] before and are unsurprised by Terry overreacting, hinting this happens a few times. Terry says "This hasn't happened for a thousand years!" Then the Jerrys look at each other as if to say HereWeGoAgain.
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, they
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* The whole thing with Joe giving death the slip is treated as something that's never happened before, but I'm positive other souls have rejected death before Joe and probably tried to escape. Even if they didn't succeed, it still seems strange that Joe is the only soul freaking out and trying to escape. Also, what about near death near-death experiences? Are NDEs souls that escaped death?death?
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, they lose it as a tool to motivate him. It seems they've seen NDEs before and are unsurprised by Terry overreacting, hinting this happens a few times. Terry says "This hasn't happened for a thousand years!" Then the Jerrys look at each other as if to say HereWeGoAgain.
** Terry is actually the one who says this is unusual and makes a big deal out of it. The Jerrys just do the equivalent of rolling their eyes and try to help out Joe rather than freaking out and insisting he ''must'' go to the Great Beyond. Instead, they lose it as a tool to motivate him. It seems they've seen NDEs before and are unsurprised by Terry overreacting, hinting this happens a few times. Terry says "This hasn't happened for a thousand years!" Then the Jerrys look at each other as if to say HereWeGoAgain.
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** The schedules might not be compatible. The gig starts pretty late and is implied to run for hours; that wouldn't combo well with having to be up early the next day to head to the teaching job, even ignoring all of the off-hours work that goes into teaching such as grading and lesson planning. On paper, you're right, they're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but Joe would be better off picking one for the sake of his mental and physical health. (And God forbid Dorthea decides to go on tour, uprooting Joe from the teaching job even if he did try to do both.)
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** Also, we later see Joe had his phone with him the whole time. While 22 was uneasy using it, it's still feasible that he might have somehow paid using an app (there are several ways to do that).
