Well, the Orthodox Christian idea of Hell is more of a state, that is, those in Hell are there of their own free will...
Aw heck, here's an article on it. Here's the relevant portion:
The Orthodox Church differs with western theology on hell and purgatory. In the western concept, hell is created by God to punish demons and sinners for eternity. The fire of hell is a created substance. The Orthodox doctrine is that of salvation. God’s love is all-encompassing. He loves all His creatures, men, angels, and demons. In His love He created them free to love God or not. To preserve our freedom, God’s love, His light and warmth, are given to each in a small portion. In the end however, God will not be restrained; His love and light will shine in all its brilliance. To those who have been purified and prepared it will be Paradise. To those who have rejected God, His light will seem as fire. Thus, hell is the unrestrained Uncreated Light misperceived by the evil.
Strap 'em down on isolation beds, lock 'em in a very small pitch dark room, weld the metal cuffs that hold the person on the bed. Make sure those cuffs are set tight.
Watch Hell set into the mind of the most resistant officer.
I'd divide it into two sections. The first section would be for people who are probably 'reedeemable.' It'd essentially be like life on Earth all over again, except that they'd be given a shot to do things 'right.' The second section would be for those who are truly irredeemable.
There would be no eternity in my Hell. Eternity tends to get very expensive to maintain after a while, with all the new arrrivals and everything. If they 'pass' the first circle, they'll be allowed to go off into oblivion knowing that they lived well and did as well as they could. The ones in the second section will have their lives replayed, and will have all the bad they did pointed out to them. In that case, they will go off to oblivion knowing full and well that their lives were wasted and spent entirely in vain.
Reminds me of the novel "What Dreams May Come." Essentially, we all make our own heaven and/or hell. It makes the most sense to me out of any theory of an afterlife I've heard... what happens to you is governed by your own expectations, view of how you've lived your life, and the circumstances of your death. Pretty much what we're all doing in this thread: imagining a place of eternal torment based on our own fears.
For me, hell would be an ever-changing nightmare of cutting blades, flames, burning acid, ice, and every other form of bodily harm you can imagine. Almost no light: just enough to give me the barest glimpse of what the next torment would be. Most importantly, I'd be totally and completely alone. Of all my fears, isolation is the strongest. (And yes... that's the sort of thing I have dreams about. Fun, huh?)
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You know, Christian heaven isn't exactly the little angels playing harps so badly you want to say, "SHUT THE **** UP!"
You basically get a portion of heaven, considering heaven is infinite, a gigantic mansion, and I think you get to do everything you want, basically. But I'm not quite sure, because if you die clean of sins here, could you sin in Heaven?
Oh, well.
My hell is basically the bible's rendition, a pit as large as none other full of fire feeding off sulphur, making thick clouds of smoke, and you burn while listening to other's people screams. Physical and Psychological all in one. Pretty convenient, eh?
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kojikun wrote:Earth: Final Conflict used SenDep prisons where you were in a tank of water drugged up so you could barely move and you were compeltely deprived of all sensory input. If I ever get my empire, I intend to implement this kind of prison.
*shudders* That whole concept gave me the creeps in the worst way.....
The thing about designing Hell, is that if you have to run it, you don't want it to be a bad place for you to be. So a giant pit of flame, while having a nice atmosphere, would just suck to work in.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
My version of Hell would be more like the Hell-moon from SG-1... More of a 'Nation State Of Hell' than a 'Mythological Torture-Hole Hell'.
I'd have the throne, and all my victims would spend their mortal days working in my mines and whatnot and cowarding in fear at the very mention of my name.
Mr Bean wrote:Void, No sound, No Feeling, No nothing, just blackness and your own thoughts
Now what would be the point of that? The entire purpose of Hell is to make your victims suffer until the end of time. If your victim's brains turn to goo early on in the process, he no longer has the awareness necessary to experience suffering. Which defeats the whole object of the exercise.
Now what would be the point of that? The entire purpose of Hell is to make your victims suffer until the end of time. If your victim's brains turn to goo early on in the process, he no longer has the awareness necessary to experience suffering. Which defeats the whole object of the exercise.
Give them happyness and/or prevent them from going insane, It is hell afterall you can break all the rules you want to
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Mr Bean wrote:Void, No sound, No Feeling, No nothing, just blackness and your own thoughts
Now what would be the point of that? The entire purpose of Hell is to make your victims suffer until the end of time. If your victim's brains turn to goo early on in the process, he no longer has the awareness necessary to experience suffering. Which defeats the whole object of the exercise.
It's Hell, after all: you change their minds around a little so no matter how much pain and suffering your damned souls feel, there's no madness waiting for them to take refuge in.
beyond hope wrote:
It's Hell, after all: you change their minds around a little so no matter how much pain and suffering your damned souls feel, there's no madness waiting for them to take refuge in.
Pain is only a sensory perseption. Pain is irrelevant. Give me 5 thousand years and I'll be chuckling the next time they stick a hot poker in me. I laugh at eternal suffering: HA!
Some people thrive off of sensory deprivation. In time, yes, you will go crazy, but what happens when you hit the point where you're used to talking to yourselves?
Read the Quote Agian, No sight, No sound
You can't talk to yourself except mentaly which is not the same thing, trying holding a conversation were you talk with yourself
Or better yet go find a dark place with no nose(Or get earplugs) don't close your eyes, but sit still and star into the blackness, Will un-nerve you in a moment or two
Full Sensory deprivation drives the fokes insane very quickly and sucidal soon after than
First off, you'll get used to mentally talking to yourselves.
Second, you can't kill yourself when you're dead. You'll get used to that, too.
In Hell, you are forced to hold debates with people who talk like grown-up DarkStars. They will never admit defeat, even when crushed in exacting detail. They will always lie, cheat, and steal, and you must continue to debate them about meaningless topics.
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Master of Ossus wrote:In Hell, you are forced to hold debates with people who talk like grown-up DarkStars. They will never admit defeat, even when crushed in exacting detail. They will always lie, cheat, and steal, and you must continue to debate them about meaningless topics.
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." -George Carlin (1937-2008)
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How about the Luciferian Liberation Front's idea of Hell: "Casinos and whorehouses." "Hell is blue, not red." And so forth.
Eh, if I could design it, it would be both a place of pleasure and of torments, just like Earth. You can't know pleasure if you don't know pain, right?
I would sit on my throne of red-hot iron and bronze, clad in my red and black silken robes, possibly with a large funny hat [Pope style]. However, I hate hats. They make my head itchy. Hellhounds would be chained to either side of my throne to ward of any who come too close to my corruption. My Hell would have a standing military of the damned and their ethereal demon cohorts as commanders to keep the populace in line; and to defend it from any white-light dickheads that dare invade my home. Oh, and don't forget the occasional raids on Heaven.
...This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old...ultraviolence.
beyond hope wrote:
It's Hell, after all: you change their minds around a little so no matter how much pain and suffering your damned souls feel, there's no madness waiting for them to take refuge in.
Pain is only a sensory perseption. Pain is irrelevant. Give me 5 thousand years and I'll be chuckling the next time they stick a hot poker in me. I laugh at eternal suffering: HA!
You have mastered pain.
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