Thursday, July 12, 2018
The Nature of Hell - This is for students in Comparative Religions.
Different people have different ideas of what Hell would be for t hem. Some say it would involve physical pain, but others think it might be worse to have psychological torture. What is the worst idea of hell you can imagine? In other words, what punishment would you hate to have to endure for all eternity? RESPOND to this post once and REPLY to two of your classmates.
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I really think that the worst hell that can exist is the one that involves physical and psychological pain. Off course when you feel physical pain you feel horrible, and it is awful to imagine being tortured. If we feel lots of pain when we hit our body against something, I could not imagine how painful this could be. Even when I really think this is a terrible thing to experience, the psychological pain is scarier than any other. There are things that go beyond physical, and that you cannot explain easily. It would be unbearable for me if someone made my family suffer, or if someone used my deepest secrets to expose me to the world. That is something I believe is more painful that anything in the world.
ReplyDeleteYour opinion is similar to "Two Pain(Niku)" in Buddhism. It is very interesting for me because you are Christian but you have your opinion, which is similar to Buddhism.
DeleteI agree with your opinion that psychological pain is more terrible than physical one.
DeleteYou made me think about energies, where people who manipulate all that kind of things, whether negative or positive, can affect your life in an imprecise way, especially in a psychological way.
DeleteI think that the worst hell is "alone". You can't live without helping. Sometimes, others maybe help you. If you were alone, you couldn't talk, play, see, and do anything with others. Alone makes me give up all hope.
ReplyDeleteIt can be a hard punishment. However, I think that the physical pain is also unbearable.
DeleteDaiki, I agree with you. It seems like there is no need for company, but a life or an eternity alone could be worse than any other thing. As humans, we have constant contact with others and being alone could be traumatic for any person.
DeleteYes, I totally agree with you, in fact we are beings that need someone's company at all times, in fact there are people who die of loneliness.
DeleteI agree with you because I think loneliness is hard for our mind. We can't talk, consult and share our feeling when we are alone.
DeleteI totally agree with you, we should not depend in other people, but life without anyone wouldn't be the same and it would not even have any sense.
DeleteI think that psychological pain is the most terrible pain. I feel pain when I cannot satisfy my desire such as hunger and thirsty. Also the punishment which I hate to have to endure for all eternity is that realizing how incompetent I am. Even though I know that someone needs help but I cannot help I feel pain.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea.
DeleteI believe that the most terrible torture is psychological pain.
ReplyDeleteIn particular, being abandoned by everyone around me is unbearable pain for me.
I understand your opinion. But i think physical torture must be more unbearable and effective for everyone
DeleteI had not realized this before, but I think it is very true what you say and it must be very hard for someone to feel that pain.
DeleteThis question is so difficult for me because I think there are a few "suffer" through my life. What I mean is that I do not have experience of suffering, for example, severe hunger, heavy sickness, or torture. Therefore I could not know what is real suffer is or not. Based on this fact, I imagine that physical torture is the worst punishment for a human. The reason is that the psychological torture is based on each identity, and that effect should be different from each other. On the other hand, the physical torture is so effective to all human beings because we are the same in the aspect of the system to feel pain. Therefore I think that the physical torture is more effective and hard for us.
ReplyDeletePhysical pain can be shared by a lot of people. From this point of view, physical pain is not hard because someone can understand your pain, I think. In conclusion, psychological pain is hard.
DeleteI had never thought of the fact that I had never passed by severe physical pain and; therefore, I could not imagine the impact that this one could cause in a human being. In general, when we feel just a little pain in our daily lives, we tend to suffer a great deal, so I could not imagine being tortured physically. That would be really painful.
DeleteI think that the worst punishment is physical, because through these, the person is affected psychologically little by little, without the need for an external person to do it necessarily. For example, that the worst punishment is hitting the person with a whip every day, at first it will hurt and then, you will stop feeling pain, and very surely stop feeling another type of emotion, as it was affected in a psychological way but indirectly. In fact, I think that the worst punishment that exists is that which leads to self-destruction, where by your own thoughts you condemn yourself to stop being a person and become a demon more.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Indeed physical punishment is hard, but punishment which leads to self-destruction cannot stand.
DeleteThe worst punishment is physical because if you are being tortured in a physical way you're also being tortured in a mental way. Both are a complement to the other; if you are tortured physical your body if going to broke little by little and if you are being tortured mentally, your head, your though, your feelings will be also broken little by little.
ReplyDeleteI think that the worst torture that someone can receive is physical torture because in this way a person can reach a point where they can not even stop standing on their own, or a point can come when the person is so mistreated that can lose all strength in their body and therefore can lead to the person to be mentally affected, because they see that they are mistreated and can not do anything to fix it, your thoughts can be deteriorating constantly.
ReplyDeleteI think that the worst punishment is the one that nobody can imagine and that is eternal. All the other punishments either physical or not are of course horrible and destructive, but still less severe if they are not eternal.
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