As a comment (you may do so anonymously, but include your name somewhere so I can give you credit), describe a specific sin with a suggested, detailed punishment that ought to be included in Dante's Inferno but isn't. Perhaps you might include a sin more evident in our modern world than the ones Dante knew 700 years ago!
Due Monday, October 12, 8am.
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Senia Lee
Sin: Procrastination
Today, about half or more than half the school procrastinates. Unnecessary procrastination is something everyone has in common. It's not a good thing, so it's obviously a bad thing. Sometimes it's understandable and necessary, but for everyone participating in procrastination would have to suffer their fate in hell. Their punishment would be to write inconclusive essay in a period of time, continuously a different topic for all eternity. This punishment also puts in poetic justice.
Sin: superiority mind set, believing to be better/greater than others.
Punishment: Having to climb a treacherous cliff until they reach the top. Once reaching the top, the sinners represent themselves and their sin as they are standing at the very tip looking down at their fellow sinners. The sinners now have to jump off the cliff into the fiery river and jagged rocks bellow; if they wait longer than a second, demons standing at the cliff will push them over the edge. The sinners emerge from the river and repeat this cycle for eternity =D
Asel Kul.
Kristine Brown
Sin: Adults who don't listen to the lifeguards (or other types of employees) because they are younger than them.
Punishment: Each soul will forever be a child with an adult mind. They will be surrounded by adults who want to make bad choices. The soul will always know the right thing to do and will suggest it to the adults but they will ignore it and tell the soul it doesn't know anything because its only a child.
Poetic Justice: Since the soul as a human ignored younger employees, now the soul will be ignored even if it knows the right thing to do.
Sin: Racism
Because Dante obviously did not consider racism as a sin (or not a full sin in itself), he, for example, would get bot fly eggs lain in his skin. Random odorless, translucent, gigantic guinea pigs with orange hair would additionally gnaw at the sinners' hearts to file their teeth, and have family inside his/her heart. This works because the sinners who have chosen only to use looks as a judgment point would get other creatures to use their inner souls(and not the outside) to their own advantage. And because you would expect a guinea pig to be a nice creature, who would suspect that it would have something something as beneficially horrible as a symbiotic relationship, especially in hell?
Sin: Being a completely and totally unquestioning, brainwashed follower of a political, religious or other doctrine.
Punishment: Walking barefoot on a straight path of hot coals that never ends. On either side of the path a paradisaical world is in the peripheral vision, but the sinner can neither look away from the path ahead nor divulge from the excruciating course.
Quinn Jacobs
Sin: Littering
Punishment: The sinners would be trapped in a large cavern; armed with trash bags and picks, they would collect every bit of litter covering the floor and throw it onto a gigantic pile of fetid garbage. However, once the cavern floor is clean, more disgusting trash appears and the sinners have to start again. This endless task represents the wastefulness of the sinners, and the unending mountain of rubbish they created during life.
In addition to forever cleaning up trash, the sinners would be constantly bit, scratched, and pecked by animals that perished due to the effects of the trash on the environment.
Jessia Sands
Sin: complaining
Punishment: every soul who did a great amount of complaining during thier life would be sentenced to a place in hell where no one could hear them. Because in life they made everyone listen to every single one of their problems, in hell they would be doomed to live in silence.
Chris Bram
sin: Poor driving skills.
Nowadays, there are way too many deaths due to people making idiotic choices associated with driving. Those who kill someone/themselves in a vehicle (cars, boats, hang gliders, etc.) accident will forever have to take part in an eternal round of whip-lash inducing bumper cars. The poetic justice in this comes from the fact that their poor driving skills harmed innocent people in life, so now they get to harm the guilty ones, themselves, in death.
These are brilliant! Well done.
uninspired theater directors: forced to watch "The Diary of Anne Frank," but to never have the Nazis show up. (hat tip to Ms. Nieland for the suggestion!)
Megan Soland
Sin: pertending to be someones friend when you really can't stand them.
Punishment: Having to be surrounded by people that are always being mean to you. Like ignoring you when you talk and cursing at you. This is significant because if you are mean to someone behind their back, others will show that they hate you to your face. While this is going on the sinner will be lined up in a circle and are told they are moving to a higher level and then they are faked out and have to continue in the circle, while they are burning.
Christian Cassman
Sin: Loitering
Countless teenagers are guilty of loitering, myself not discluded. (The real sin here is growing up in a city with only medical facilities and a somewhat pathetic mall.) As punishment, loiterers would be forced to stay completely still and be unable to talk. This serves poetic justice to those who just "hang out" and talk to their friends in the wrong places.
Sarah Stevens
Sin: people who steal others' identity (identity theft)
These sly and greedy people who, in their life on earth, try to use someone else's information to their advantage and increased wealth are doomed in hell to be a mirror to others. Instead of electronically taking someone else's identity on earth, they physically take the form of other people in hell. Whenever someone looks at them, the identity theif's body immediately transforms into an exact copy of the person looking at them, thereby mirroring and becoming that other person. This identity theif therefore has no identity of his own and just copies everyone else.
Emily Ripley
Sin: Using less than 100% effort
Punishment: Since the sinner is usually lazy or not completely involved in their task, the sinner now, for all eternity, is not allowed to use 100% effort, causing the person to not be able to finish anything, including sentences, breaths, journeys, and all other things. If the person attempts to overshoot their goal in order to complete their original task, vultures will bombard them and never finish them off.
False Self
It’s not right care about what others think of you, but it’s sinful to try to be something you’re not. Sinners of False self are souls that faked their interests, their friends, and their personality. They lie about things they enjoy to try to impress others. Sinners do not show the world whom they really are; in fear that they will be rejected. In reality it only matters what God thinks of you. Acceptance of God is the only acceptance that matters.
Punishment: Because these sinners refused to show what’s really inside of them they are to be eternally turned inside out. Their organs, veins, muscles, and bones are on the outside. What’s inside of them is now on the outside, finally being revealed. The demons rip out the sinners outsides until all that’s left is nothing.
Cadie Engelking
Caitlyn Burke
Sin: Cheating on a test.
Many students of all ages, including high school cheat on tests. Cheating prevents the cheater from learning and makes the person they're cheating off of feel used. In hell cheaters' punishment would be being stuck in a room surrounded by people annoyingly asking them answers to questions they don't know. The questions they will be asked will be things they would have know if they had only studied for themselves instead of cheating.
Aymen Murdos
Sin: Peer pressure
Punishment: Those who pressure others to take a certain action, adopt a certain value, or act a different way to be accepted are sentenced to Hell. Their punishment is to be pressured by demons to do impossible things, so that they do not get tortured. However, they do not know that they will always get tortured.
sin: being extreamly annoying all the time.
Punisment: A drop of water will hit you square in the face for all eternity forcing you to never sleep and hear the drop ringing in your ears. Basically chinesee water torture.
Drew Modjeski
Matt Pelfrey
Sin : Veganism
Punsishment : Vegans are set in a barren landscape, with mushrooms littering the ground. They have to deal with an insatiable hunger, and so are compelled to pick up and eat the mushrooms. Once they do, however, they burst into flame for several minutes. They have to repeat the process for all of eternity.
Brian Reuland
Sin: Rich country club members that treat employees like dirt and then don't tip.
Rich country club members have a lot to be proud of, they are ver successful in their careers and therefore have the privledge of being a member at the club. However, too many of them cross the line between pride and arrogance. Some are outright rude. Those people expect things that are not possible and complain when their outrageous demands are not met. This deserves a special place in hell. Their punishment would be they would have to work all the time while being chastised by demons non-stop. They would also be given the hope that they would be tipped, but that hope would never be fulfilled because the demons woulddo to them what they did to employees in life. It would be a perfect punishment and would be poetic justice for all those arrogant country club members.
Elizabeth Pankratz
Sin: not obeying your parents
Punishment: The guilty sinner would forever have everyone ignore him/her. Others would still be able to hear the sinner's words but not act on or react to them.
Poetic Justice: To not obey your parents you are choosing to willingly ignore what they have or have not told you to do. Therefore, those guilty of this sin will have everybody else ignoring them instead.
Jeanne Depman
Sin: texting too much
Punishment: Having to lay on the ground with a cell phone right out of reach that keeps going off with new text messages every once and a while. The sinner would never get the change to answer the texts or even look at them
Mr. Edmunds
Sin: Texting in class
It is no secret that students today are entirely consumed by their electronic devices, so much so that many of them attempt to send text messages during class time. These poor souls do not realize what a privilege it is to receive a free public education - many less fortunate young people around the world wish and pray for such an opportunity to learn and grow.
These "texting" sinners will be punished in a terrible way. There will constantly be text cut into their flesh by an invisible razor- sharp blade, and just as the cuts heal, new "text messages" will be sliced into their skin for eternity.
Sin: Obnoxious Ignorance
At one point in everyone's life, they encounter a subject they know nothing about, and at that point they have to options: politician or fool(some might argue they are the same thing in most cases). Simply put the politician would jump around the topic and talk about something else, while the fool would try to explain whatever the subject is by using their already uneducated perspective.
Punishment: Their skin would be turned to heavy indestructible metal, forcing them to stay still and they would have boiling tar flowing out from their mouths which would soak up through holes in their feet back and back out the mouth, like a fountain
(only the fools would be punished).
Poetic Justice: They spewed their misinformation in life and now they must suffer for being an obnoxious fool by forever regurgitating the same disgusting thing.
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