And the voice gives me the chills...

[seiberwing]

This is beautiful, in a very twisted sort of way. One assumes that it was intended to be the Devil in a slightly less redhorned-and-goofy way, but it matches up perfectly to some rather disturbed descriptions I've heard of God that supposedly justify the actions they say he takes.

Nightmare fuel if you're a little kid, obviously, but it makes a statement that I don't believe it meant to.

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[dogbite12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, more like my interpretation of Mishna is better than yours; they already know who's going to hell already :P

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Hillel/Shammai OTP, their love argues about pretty much everything.

The Jewish belief in Hell got squashed down a lot over the millenia. There's precedent for it, but very few people gave it much thought and it was assumed all the mostly good people went there eventually.

[dogbite12.livejournal.com]

All this got me thinking about the the eighteenth level of hell. Don't ask why.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Eighteenth?

[dogbite12.livejournal.com]

Buddhist mythology; the 18 levels of hell are where one who had been very bad gets punished.

The 18th is where you are put on a platform over fire; if you get pushed off, you burn. And you aren't reincarnated.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I can't say I'd ever heard of that. Or of hells in general in Buddhist mythology; that sounds more like incorporated folk legend.

[dogbite12.livejournal.com]

Probably, but apparently there are a ton of sutras on the subject. It's big in Chinese Buddhism but also in Tibetan
Buddhism.

Like all good mythologies, it's fascinating.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mythology rocks. Although for some reason my brain likes to wander towards the medieval/Renaissance Christian folklore area when left to its own devices.