View of hell - Writers Forum

Intel · 01-13-2006, 08:09 AM

Hi. I'm writing a book set in hell and I'd like to know your opinions on what would be in hell, scenary and monsters and other stuff please. Would it be a planet just like ours? I'd be very grateful thanks

PaPa · 01-13-2006, 08:11 AM

Fire and brimstone, my friend, fire and brimstone.

Intel · 01-13-2006, 08:25 AM

wow, that helps me a lot. Thanks.................

=D>

delirium · 01-13-2006, 08:40 AM

Intel, to me hell isn't about a red flaming background, with satanic voices and demons and freaks with hooves.
To me its the very world we live in, controlled by Illuminati, faced by charmers in smart suits, manipulating mankind.
But of course if your looking for the old fashioned vision of hell, the type that were conditioned to believe then i can think up some other type of hellish scene, the type that makes us feel safer because we cant see it yet.

Intel · 01-13-2006, 08:44 AM

I don't actually believe in hell but I would like a really cool, maybe alternate view of hell if you can. If not opt for a very descriptive old fashioned hell thanks.

jk7070436 · 01-13-2006, 09:00 AM

Maybe you can sort of change the idea of what is Hell around. Instead of all that fire and stuff, maybe you can have a COMPLETELY empty piece of wet, hazy grassland. Nothing but grass. And all you can do is keep walking and keep walking. And you might pass by someone, but you won't be able to see, hear, smell, or feel them. Nope, you can't even taste them.

delirium · 01-13-2006, 09:02 AM

Well for a start, it will be on earth, every single thought and action is monitored, the figure of satan himself wont exist as one being, but instead a council of servants are the actual face of the evil.
Reality itself will not exist because the so called "reality" will be artificially created, kind of like the matrix, in order to hold mankind in chains, i know its not what people tend to think of hell and evil, but the old fashioned idea is what is encouraged for you to believe, in order to keep you busy and out of the real picture, a number of families world wide will be the key players, the servants to satan, no dragons involved or red eyes and funny teeth, more a case of controlling economies, creating new viruses, creating problems in order to find a solution, out of chaos coming order, but all to control mankind and to create a prison world where people dont realise that they even are kept in bondage, where people accept what they are told.

irishidid · 01-13-2006, 09:17 AM

Hell simply means being dead.

delirium · 01-13-2006, 09:22 AM

Depends on how you see hell though, you can be alive and breathing on earth and in a sense be dead, we see it many ways, hell can be many things for many people, i know how and what i view as hell and its not a red satan talking like his throat is hoarse surrounded by fire.

Kane · 01-13-2006, 09:25 AM

When Christ died, he descended into hell and took the keys to Death and Hell with him when he was resurrected. This indicates, by Christian reckoning, that Hell is within the earth. Interestingly enough, some years ago, a Russian(I think, but I'm not quite sure) team of drillers opened up a pocket in the earth while drilling. The heat was tremendous, and when they sent a microphone down the hole to record seismic(I think) activity, they picked up sounds of wretched human screams; screams and wailing of unimaginable torment, along with the sounds of beastly creatures(demons?). Whether it's a hoax or not, I do not know, but I find it quite interesting. My idea of hell would be unending torment, where there would be little opportunity for a plot driven story, as the agony would be so great that each person in hell is simply consumed by it. I don't think they would be able to speak, or form coherent thoughts. I think they would be driven insane by the endless pain. Also, since there is no way to escape from hell, I think it would be difficult to have any kind of character growth or reallization. Obviously, any account of hell you write would be purely fictional, as no one has ever been there and back to tell about it, and it can't be verified. If you're intent on writing a story set in hell, I would just suggest that you let your imagination go wild in the telling.

PaPa · 01-13-2006, 10:37 AM

Yeh - I heard that the moon was made of cheese. Whether it is a hoax or not I do not know, but I find it quite interesting.

Kane · 01-13-2006, 11:03 AM

What a stupid comment.

PaPa · 01-13-2006, 11:48 AM

It's what I live for.

indulge in me · 01-13-2006, 05:01 PM

I suppose the version of hell that I choose to believe in would be considered alternative. The hell I think of in my mind is your soul or whatever you are despite the physical form, trapped. Where all you can see is black, you have no body to move or senses really, just black. And you can think, and think and think, but you are just there, and cannot die. That is what I believe.

Pendulum · 01-13-2006, 05:09 PM

I think if you're tortured for eternity you'd eventually get used to it. I think an interesting rendition of hell would be mind-numbing boredom. Perhaps there is nothing there or perhaps, even stranger, would be if there was everything you could ever want, but you had no interest in it.