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To: angelo
Wow. I do not want to go there.

Each of the seven divisions in turn has seven subdivisions, and in each compartment there are seven rivers of fire and seven of hail. The width of each is one thousand ells, its depth one thousand, and its length three hundred, and they flow one from the other, and are supervised by ninety thousand Angels of Destruction. There are, besides, in every compartment seven thousand caves, in every cave there are seven thousand crevices, and in every crevice seven thousand scorpions. Every scorpion has three hundred rings, and in every ring seven thousand pouches of venom, from which flow seven rivers of deadly poison. If a man handles it, he immediately bursts, every limb is torn from his body, his bowels are cleft asunder, and he falls upon his face. There are also five different kinds of fire in hell. One devours and absorbs, another devours and does not absorb, while the third absorbs and does not devour, and there is still another fire, which neither devours nor absorbs, and furthermore a fire which devours fire. There are coals big as mountains, and coals big as hills, and coals as large as the Dead Sea, and coals like huge stones, and there are rivers of pitch and sulphur flowing and seething like live coals.

40,178 posted on 02/13/2003 6:11:27 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
If a man handles it, he immediately bursts, every limb is torn from his body, his bowels are cleft asunder, and he falls upon his face.

If your limbs are torn off and your bowels ripped apart, how are you supposed to enjoy the rest of your time spent there?

SD

40,179 posted on 02/13/2003 6:16:11 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
Wow. I do not want to go there.

Of course all of that is sheer speculation. Sounds a lot like Dante's description.

40,200 posted on 02/13/2003 7:56:00 AM PST by malakhi (fundamentalist unitarian)
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