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Hell is cold. I want to clear the 'fire and brimstone' misconception up. It's not even freezing, either. The temperature rarely drops below 40 degrees. Because extreme physical pain really passes the time and when your Eternity Of Punishment flies by it's not much of a punishment. With no physical pain, boredom seeps in, and with boredom comes a Hell full of thought. Thinking brings regret. Memories. Souls stewing in lost joys while wishing hopelessly for a light jacket, that's pain.
I am the President of Creative Punishment, and my last eureka moment happened 1, 036 years ago when I realized emotional pain won out over physical pain. Which came with its share of humiliation considering souls barely even feel the physical. These lost souls had us going since the beginning of time. Bastards. Actually, I have made one creative revelation since then. One I have yet to tell the big man downstairs. Humans, they have this infuriating ability to adapt, even to pain. So once circumstance has run out and cruel and unusual torture has become the norm, intolerable agony become tolerable...
My personal theory is that without extreme pain there can be no extreme pleasure, and the only place where you can find both is where the living Dwell, Earth. I imagine they are feeling similar aggravations in that big fluffy place in the clouds, but I wont be the one to tell Them that we can't offer more than a middle class retirement home with excellent health care.