re: True Detective S1E08 "Form And Void"

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that near-death experiences aren't real experiences of the afterlife (any more than hallucinations are real revelations),

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I think that the purpose of the hallucinations to some extent was to give some sort of deniability of the supernatural. It doesn't fully prove the possibility of supernatural false. It justtries to point us in another direction as to try to say that any conclusions about what happens after death is irrelevent. It is trying to make statements about life.

Finally watched the finale last night.

It ended perfectly, they got their man and mended their relationship, which was the main theme of the show.

Did they catch everyone? No, but that's way life is sometimes.

An absolutely incredible, historic series that will be looked back on with much respect and admiration in years to come

They were able to shed a little light on the darkness.

I think the beauty of the writing that has lead to this discussion is that it's made everyone that watched it experience how the mind deals with hallucinations. We justify them. We philosophize about them. We just cannot accept that maybe... just maybe, it's simply not there and it's a glitch and there's nothing more to it than that.

Because that's not how human beings minds work. We need order. We need reasons. Everything happens for a reason right?

No it doesn't. Not in any fashion we're capable of grasping. Hell the more we get into the quantum the more we realize how little we understand with our 'reason'. But hallucinations have been with us forever. And forever have we justified them and changed history because of them. And the reason is... that's just how we are. We can not just observe without thinking we're somehow more important than we are.

He hallucinated. His mind did what it obviously does and he tried to explain it in a way he could deal with. And because of that, he was the guy he was and he was very hard to get close to. When hallucinations are as real as everything else, but you know they're hallucinations... take a guess how much you trust reality.

We really need to discuss why Reggie and Errol identified Rust as a priest. He said "little priest" not little man.

Many thanks to The Pain Train on the Fark Board for an appropriate addition to this True Detective gif.

"Come inside, little priest. To your right, little priest. Take the bride's path. This is Carcosa. You know what they did to me? Hmmm? What I will do to all the sons and daughters of man. You blessed Reggie ... Dewald ... Acolytes. Witnesses to my journey. Lovers. I am not ashamed. Come die with me, little priest."

—Errol Childress

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he was obviously involved in some way, but that doesn't mean he was using the task force to do his bidding

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Many thanks to The Pain Train on the Fark Board for an appropriate addition to this True Detective gif.

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For me, this was the best scene in the entire series and aptly defines the relationship between Rust and Marty. Well done on the fark by The Pain Train.

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Been racking my brain about this one too.
My only guess is that they could sense something about him that suggested he was capable of becoming the monster each of them had already transformed into. Like a lot of other things, it's not fully explained or fully explored, but I'm all out of answers for that one.

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I go back to the exchange where Marty asks Rust “You ever wonder if you’re a bad man?”
Rust tells him, “No, I don’t wonder, Marty.” He goes on to explain “The world needs bad men. We keep other bad men from the door.”

In this sense the evil of the world is held in check by men who are corrupt by what they experience in their line of duty. Rust was thereby rendered incapable of a normal existence in the very community he was sworn to protect. Rust is priest on the radar of the members of cult because he exudes evil and is a killer. He is also touched with a gift or a calling. He sees things differently and is able to experience things in a way that makes him special.

Now how they knew this is up for question. It almost validates the back arts they practiced with some sort of effectiveness. They were heightened or enlightened through their rituals, which seems to be the point of the rituals in the first place.