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The afterlife's HR department, where eternity is the sentence and fire is just the ambiance.
means A place or state of extreme suffering, torment, or misery — often imagined as the fiery abode of the damned, but just as often a workday, a waiting room, or a family dinner.
from From Old English 'hel,' rooted in Proto-Germanic 'haljō' — meaning roughly 'concealed place' or 'the hidden one' — related to words meaning 'to cover' or 'to hide' (a cousin of English 'hole' and 'hall' in the sense of a covered space). Long before Christian fire-and-brimstone imagery took hold, Germanic mythology already had Hel as both a shadowy underworld and the goddess who ruled it. Christianity later poured in the flames and the sentencing judge, but the word itself started as something simpler and darker: the place you can't see out of.
- gehenna origin
- named after a burning trash valley near Jerusalem
- dante's layout
- nine circles, sorted by sin, worse at the bottom
- actual temperature
- theologians never agreed, some say it is ice
- other people
- sartre's version has no fire, just company