But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell. Iris Murdoch
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Author and philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche said: “But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.” Hell is often misunderstood because people think it means something bad. Hell is not necessarily about suffering or punishment, it is about shared shared suffering at the hands of others without any hope for redemption.

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