"You are like a rose in a great rose field. Each rose is so beautiful to me. But if one dies... I can still look at many other roses..." God of Darkness.
For all who say this should be in Diablo 2 section, this doesn't necessarily have to do with Diablo 2. Hell is featured in lots of games and to some people it's a reality (those whom believe in hell).
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
For Diablo games it should remain fiery. It can really go any direction in other games, but the Diablo series is already established with a fiery hell.
Myself being a believer in heaven and hell, see hell more as the dark abyss type. I mean, I've always considered hell to be the absolute absence of God, who is love, light, warmth, etc. Imagine being trapped in a complete void, with nothing but your bad thoughts (because all the thoughts of love, happiness, etc cannot enter hell) and you'll kinda have the idea of what I see hell as.
I don't picture Hell as looking any particular way. I picture it as almost this endless realm where it could look any number of ways. I even picture Hell as looking just like everyday life but while being in a mental pain and anguish. Sometimes I may even picture Hell as a Coldplay or Aerosmith concert.
I picture Hell like in the movie Constantine. Everything is being destroyed, there is fire, but it is always burning but never going away. There are seas of people being torn and everyone is being tortured. Watch the movie and see what I mean.
Well Heaven is supposed to be a place that is warm and loving. A place that you never feel the need for any thing because you have everything you could ever want. Of course the everything you could ever want is supposed to be the direct love of God if you go by the Christian faith but none the less that is the depiction of heaven for me.
I feel that Hell would be the exact opposite of that. A dark and cold place where you feel the need for everything you had and wanted in life and no longer have or never got. All of the basics of life taken way. No one to love or care for, nothing to aspire to just an emptiness within your own mind in a frozen wasteland.
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Well Heaven is supposed to be a place that is warm and loving. A place that you never feel the need for any thing because you have everything you could ever want. Of course the everything you could ever want is supposed to be the direct love of God if you go by the Christian faith but none the less that is the depiction of heaven for me.
I feel that Hell would be the exact opposite of that. A dark and cold place where you feel the need for everything you had and wanted in life and no longer have or never got. All of the basics of life taken way. No one to love or care for, nothing to aspire to just an emptiness within your own mind in a frozen wasteland.
Good description. Now lets add some fire, some torture, and some endless agony, and now we got my definition of hell.
In regards to Diablo, you have the Burning Hells, so the firey one for that obviously.
I'm Christian with a bit of popular culture to gain a better understanding, the bible is actually rather vague. So I go with the Nine circles of Hell. And of course the deepest circle is reserved for murderers and betrayers.
Though often Hell is divided into roughly 9 portions in almost all media. It might be all flaming and lava filled, but it will still have 9 areas.
We have seen at least 2 in the Diablo games so far. Hell in act 4 that is the river of flame and the Chaos Sanctuary were vastly different from the bone ridden, impaled corpse filled Hell of the first game, assuming these two Hells are infact part of the same geographical area or realm (Like Europe and America), then prehaps in Diablo III we may yet see other areas of Hell that differ from the two we have seen thus far, though there is no way to tell if there is going to be 7 unexplored areas. The only area I know of is where Belial and Azmodan and their armies are, but I am fairly sure they are in the Bunring Hells.
Generally speaking Hell is described as firey or flaming, or a grayish nothingness. Though Ellysium or the Ellysium Fields, although part of the larger network that is Hades, isn't really a "Hell".
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
I see Hell as being more of a state of mind or mental anguish. If it were to be a place however it would be the place furthest away from God the Father as is physically possible. Since in my religion the whole reason we're here on this earth is so that we can return to God's presence. I think the whole burning and fire and brimstone mentioned in the Scriptures is simply a way to describe how that mental anguish would feel to a person.
I see Hell as being more of a state of mind or mental anguish. If it were to be a place however it would be the place furthest away from God the Father as is physically possible. Since in my religion the whole reason we're here on this earth is so that we can return to God's presence. I think the whole burning and fire and brimstone mentioned in the Scriptures is simply a way to describe how that mental anguish would feel to a person.
Isn't it described in your religion as outer darkness? Being the lowest tier possible?
Isn't it described in your religion as outer darkness? Being the lowest tier possible?
That it is. If you think of things symbolically, God is light; thus when one is so far away from His presence it becomes darkness. Our state in the afterlife can be described by how close we are able to come to God's presence.
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I picture hell as a small room with nothing to do, eventually leading to loss of sanity etc.
I think a loss of sanity is actually an escape mechanism. If I do end up going to hell I expect to be fully aware of what I've done to get there, and what I could have become had I done the right things in life.
That it is. If you think of things symbolically, God is light; thus when one is so far away from His presence it becomes darkness. Our state in the afterlife can be described by how close we are able to come to God's presence.
Strange. I don't really believe in God and yet what you talk about here still leaves me feeling disturbed. Maybe I'm more agnostic than I think.
I've also pictured Hell though as this endless featureless terrain. The ground looks like dried cracked mud and you can walk forever in any direction without hunger or thirst or a need for sleep. And the sky is a pale blue and the air is stale. But I also picture always being able to see a mountain far off into the horizon. And no matter how much you walk, the mountain is always just as far away from you.
I personally like the way Hell was perceived in Dante's Inferno, but in all actuality, Hell doesn't exist.
well it depends on what you mean by "actuality" because if you mean in physical existance as in the universe, then you're right. but it does spiritually and mentally exist.
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"You are like a rose in a great rose field. Each rose is so beautiful to me. But if one dies... I can still look at many other roses..." God of Darkness.
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Dark Abyss:
(the best one i can find)
Flaming Hell:
Bloody hell:
(kinda hard to see)
For all who say this should be in Diablo 2 section, this doesn't necessarily have to do with Diablo 2. Hell is featured in lots of games and to some people it's a reality (those whom believe in hell).
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
Myself being a believer in heaven and hell, see hell more as the dark abyss type. I mean, I've always considered hell to be the absolute absence of God, who is love, light, warmth, etc. Imagine being trapped in a complete void, with nothing but your bad thoughts (because all the thoughts of love, happiness, etc cannot enter hell) and you'll kinda have the idea of what I see hell as.
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I picture Hell like in the movie Constantine. Everything is being destroyed, there is fire, but it is always burning but never going away. There are seas of people being torn and everyone is being tortured. Watch the movie and see what I mean.
I feel that Hell would be the exact opposite of that. A dark and cold place where you feel the need for everything you had and wanted in life and no longer have or never got. All of the basics of life taken way. No one to love or care for, nothing to aspire to just an emptiness within your own mind in a frozen wasteland.
Good description. Now lets add some fire, some torture, and some endless agony, and now we got my definition of hell.
I'm Christian with a bit of popular culture to gain a better understanding, the bible is actually rather vague. So I go with the Nine circles of Hell. And of course the deepest circle is reserved for murderers and betrayers.
Though often Hell is divided into roughly 9 portions in almost all media. It might be all flaming and lava filled, but it will still have 9 areas.
We have seen at least 2 in the Diablo games so far. Hell in act 4 that is the river of flame and the Chaos Sanctuary were vastly different from the bone ridden, impaled corpse filled Hell of the first game, assuming these two Hells are infact part of the same geographical area or realm (Like Europe and America), then prehaps in Diablo III we may yet see other areas of Hell that differ from the two we have seen thus far, though there is no way to tell if there is going to be 7 unexplored areas. The only area I know of is where Belial and Azmodan and their armies are, but I am fairly sure they are in the Bunring Hells.
Generally speaking Hell is described as firey or flaming, or a grayish nothingness. Though Ellysium or the Ellysium Fields, although part of the larger network that is Hades, isn't really a "Hell".
Like a cat, tied to a stick
um, I couldn't be bothered expanding on that.
To find the truth, you must risk everything.
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It's the decisions you make when you have no time to make them that define who you are.
That it is. If you think of things symbolically, God is light; thus when one is so far away from His presence it becomes darkness. Our state in the afterlife can be described by how close we are able to come to God's presence.
I think a loss of sanity is actually an escape mechanism. If I do end up going to hell I expect to be fully aware of what I've done to get there, and what I could have become had I done the right things in life.
Like a cat, tied to a stick
I've also pictured Hell though as this endless featureless terrain. The ground looks like dried cracked mud and you can walk forever in any direction without hunger or thirst or a need for sleep. And the sky is a pale blue and the air is stale. But I also picture always being able to see a mountain far off into the horizon. And no matter how much you walk, the mountain is always just as far away from you.
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well it depends on what you mean by "actuality" because if you mean in physical existance as in the universe, then you're right. but it does spiritually and mentally exist.