What is Hell? What are its functions? According to the theology instilled in us, he expects everyone who violates the canons .. which are invented by someone.
IN GENERAL, IS THERE A HELL OR IS IT AN IMAGINATION?
Each of us has thought about it at least once.
We caught an interesting hodgepodge of opinions compiled by insider site Above Top Secret in its floating news. As they write, there are opinions from the Russian blogodrome.
So we read:
1. Have you ever thought that Hell is our current existence on Earth?
Indeed, then wars, famine, diseases (especially severe and incurable ones), terrible experiences due to the deaths of loved ones, especially their children, problems and other not the most pleasant features of our earthly existence are explainable. Perhaps we end up here (on Earth) as a punishment for some wrong, unseemly actions THERE - in our real world, where most likely we live in the form of some kind of energetic, ephemeral entity, not burdened with such an unnecessary and uncomfortable burden, How physical body, bringing so many inconveniences to its owner: pain, aging, illness, deformity, and so on.
It is possible that what is commonly called the “soul” is in fact we are real, and after the death of the mortal body, we return from earthly hell to normal life, where we are not limited to the boundaries of one small planet in the outskirts of the Universe, but can freely move among planets, galaxies and live wherever we want? Then it is understandable that one on Earth lives easily and simply, while others have so many difficult trials (which means that in a real, not earthly life, they have sinned greatly, and now they must bear this punishment as atonement for their guilt). How realistic is such a theory? Are there any other arguments for or against?
2. We have no other life. If we made Hell here, then so be it. We would arrange Paradise here - honor and praise to us.
No prototypes - everything happens once in one instance, so to speak.
We don't have any shells. This body is myself, and my awareness of this (“I”) is the result of the activity of this body. And we are mortal in a single plane, there is no other plane but the physical.
So, answering the question, I will say: I do not agree with such a hypothesis. Moreover, such a hypothesis does not exist. By definition, a hypothesis is an assumption based on a set of observations or facts that looks plausible.
There are no prerequisites for the emergence of such a hypothesis. The Pharisees once beautifully described their fantasies, so well that it was retold several times. But this is not a hypothesis.
Generally speaking, this and other similar fantasies (the Earth as a testing ground, a place of exile, scientific laboratory) is just an attempt to get away from reality, to relieve ourselves of collective responsibility (and therefore personal) for what we have done.
3.Our life is what everyone imagines or perceives it to be. For some, it really is hell. But I don’t feel sorry for such people at all - do you want to see and feel it? Do you want to be afraid of losing? Well, so you get not even a well-deserved, but a begged-for Hell.
For someone, probably, life is Paradise, I fully admit.
And for me, life is life. It cannot always be perfectly good, but it would also be boring, as if it were a permanent summer. But pain and everything else are given so that the soul can grow, so that joy and happiness can be felt more sharply.
Man is born to be happy, to be happy. if he does not want this and does not want to learn this, then this is his choice and his problems.
4. I have long been an adherent of the idea that hell is our stupid life on this Earth. What, isn't it? A meaningless road from birth to death, from long ago known ways what a baby goes through to become an old man.
If become.
Many die much before they become conscious. What if you look around? Is it not Hell that a husband beats his wife to death, that a mother throws a newborn child in the trash, that children kill their parents, is it not hell that all this idiotic life, when every day you can be killed by people like you, made of flesh and blood?
The real Hell.
Cruel, unscrupulous, monotonous and empty. Being born to die, how stupid! You can, of course, diversify your life, decorate it to your liking, change the sequence of certain, but long-known, events, or remove some, but nothing will change. At the end there will be only a plate with the date of birth and death. And why is it needed? Nothing but atonement for past sins, it seems to me. Life is Hell, even if in some places life is joyful and bright, it is only in some places. Much more it is filled with tears and pain from the losses that accompany a person everywhere during his journey to the grave.
4. Hell is not a Level and not a place where someone is placed for something. Hell is a labyrinth of false conclusions of a person who created with their help his own inner Virtual Universe, completely different from the True Universe.
Paradise as a reward for earthly suffering and good deeds, desired emotional condition in the form of eternal bliss or heavenly pleasure, "fooling around" is unattainable. This is because a person from the Old Testament times remembers that this is called Paradise, but has completely forgotten what it really is. That is, he does not know what it is and where to look for it.
In fact, Paradise is understood by a person as idleness and a pleasant pastime in the Subtle World (after death), deserved by him on Earth through faith, suffering and good deeds. Not without reason, according to the Christian rite, a deceased person, as a sign that his work is over, joins his hands on his chest. Seeing off to last way, they say: “I got tired, I went to rest.” Well, not far from the truth. Considering that seventy-five - eighty percent of the dead fall into the category of restless souls, then Non-Being - in the form of the soul's stay in a corpuscle - is eternal rest!
From the point of view of the Subtle World, the state of eternal bliss, harmony or true love, is achievable in only one way - through self-improvement and ascent along the evolutionary vertical. Eternal bliss - through eternal work, how do you like it?
Hell as such, with devils and frying pans, as it appears in the understanding of man, does not exist! Everyone can arrange it for himself, being at any Level of the Universe, except for the Earth! Hell is a voluntary self-isolation in the form of a labyrinth of subjective conclusions that are far from the Truth. A person gets into such a labyrinth, having created his own inner Virtual Universe, completely different from the True and far from it, like the sky from the Earth. He must also get out of it voluntarily, admitting his wrong and delusions, connecting, docking his Virtual Universe with the Truth.
IN currently Mankind has built such a dead end for itself. There is one subtlety here: a person must get out of Hell on his own, but he will never get out of the earthly dead end without outside help - he must be led out by another person who knows what it is and how to get out of this dead end! And here there is already a place for pride to roam: “Who are you, I know everything without you!” , and so on ad infinitum...
5. Planet Earth is like a fruit. And humanity on it is scab and rot, penetrating into its flesh with its mines, eating its bowels, disfiguring its delicate skin with its fuming cities. Remove a person from the face of the Earth and it will bloom and smell sweet. The world will be better off without us. And this Hell will turn into Paradise.
6. There is a version that criminals are sent to prison-Earth to serve their sentence and correct themselves. If you prove that you have changed, they will release you. Children's crying at birth is cited as proof that the soul understands that it is here for a long time now ... It will be bad and scary. At birth, we all understand that we are terrified. And we live here, suffer and suffer.
7. Purgatory, according to the Pharisaic doctrine, is a place where the souls of dead sinners are cleansed from sins that were not expiated during life. The dogma of purgatory was introduced to the goyim in 1439, and confirmed in 1562.
According to the Church's teaching on purgatory, a baptized goy who has committed a sin and received forgiveness, or who has committed a "pardonable" sin and remains unabsolved, as a rule, is subject to a "temporary" punishment here or in future life. A goy who dies a good Christian, but weighed down by the burden of such sins, ends up in purgatory, that is, where souls endure suffering for sins, which later gives them the opportunity to go to heaven.
According to the Western Church, this truth is confirmed by Scripture (2 Maccabees 12:43-46). Since it is possible to offer a propitiatory sacrifice for the dead, this should mean that their souls do not reside in either hell or paradise, since those who have achieved salvation do not need the prayers of the living, and such prayers will not help those condemned to eternal damnation. Thus, it is believed that the souls of the dead goyim reside in a place where prayers can still help them "be resolved from sin."
Belief in purgatory, a tradition invented by the Old Testament Jews. This teaching has always been accepted Catholic Church who considered Judaism the original source of Christianity and most religions.
And the most terrible horror story that was invented for the goyim is Hell.
8. Since childhood, he believed that life is a trap. But rather - Hell, except for which there is nothing, and the only way out of which is death, which is preceded by minutes of absolute horror and despair, unless, of course, it comes hand in hand with an idiotic blind chance.
People prefer to go with the flow and not think about what is happening to us, I am implementing my biological program, and this is where it all ends for them. On those who are trying to realize all the horror in whose hands we are toys, they consider fools or mentally unhealthy people. I am sure that there is nothing after death. I'll even be happy if I'm right about that. Absolute non-existence is much better than this worm, which for some reason is called our planet. Existence itself is disgusting, and if there is still a God who planted this shameful terrarium, then I do not want to have anything to do with him and wish him all the worst. Time to get out of this hellhole.
9. Often people have the feeling that the Earth, our world, is hell. Hell on Earth is impossible, but it is possible that life here, in this world, is a kind of transitional point between hell and heaven. However, some researchers think otherwise. They argue that life on Earth is a new way for the manifestation of the soul. Sort of like a second chance. Those who could not protect themselves from sins in past lives, who did things different from those that Jesus bequeathed to us, they all live on Earth. It's just that their lives are different. Someone lives richer, and someone vice versa. Wealth and poverty, this is a test of a person for "lice". He will be able to endure, he will be blessed, he will not be able to and will join the eternal stream of chaos, there will be no forgiveness for him and eternal torment in hell awaits him.
As for the soul, the soul cannot sin. This matter is not capable of doing evil, because it is not capable of doing good. This is a neutral matter that flows into the bodies of future people. Man, during his life, struggles with himself. Conscience is the soul. She only tells you what to do and what not to do.
The neutrality of matter justifies the efforts that man is capable of exerting. He must prove that he is capable of living in more acceptable conditions and worthy of a higher standard of living. Each person must fight for his "I". However, he must not do this to the detriment of others. The fight is in the head. This is manifested in life: either you help the needy, or you spit in his face, proud of what others have earned. Such an approach drives a person straight down, to where people drown in their own feces, to where the air is hotter than fire, to where the cries of people like him are heard.
Modern science cannot refute or confirm the existence of Hell and Paradise. As well as cannot determine whether there is life outside the Earth. But just because we don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. This means that religion with its dogmas is called not only for the sake of uniting the people under any idea, but for the development of a person spiritually. Only when a person understands that life on Earth is not hard labor, but an opportunity to improve, to enrich himself not materially, but spiritually, then perfect calm will come and comprehension of the secrets of the universe will become not the work of a few, but the property of billions.
10. A little man is born and immediately cries. Who among us has not cried, has not been upset, has not been offended, has not suffered or does not suffer? We are limited in freedom of choice, that is, the entire choice is necessarily dictated by someone, we can only choose from what was given. We cannot, with all our will, jump over the roof. Here, on our planet, we receive punishment and work it out. Punishment is all kinds of zones. Any state is large area, within which there are other zones. Everything is divided into zones, where we receive punishments in the form of all sorts of hardships.
Someone toils in slavery, someone is in prison, other people rob millions of people, then they are killed, and someone dies of poverty, someone is waiting for the punishment of the ruble.
Next: The entire food chain is based on eating each other. Every living thing on Earth eats each other. I don't think this is God's plan. Man closes food chain and eats everyone, but at the end of life, being in a knocked together box - a coffin, the worms eat our flesh.
On globe there was no year of truces - there were always wars. If you look into history, then the whole life of mankind is a bloody mess that continues to this day. This is history, you can’t return everything back and you can’t replay it, but the wars continue, I don’t think God needs it, as everyone says in God’s hands, but Hell is Hell - a penal colony.
We are not only roasted and burned in Hell's Furnaces, but simply killed different ways, making it so that they would kill themselves, with my own hands. Of course this is not simple system, but very intricate and thought out to the smallest detail. It is quite real that Jesus visited our Hell, trying to save our souls - they became immortal. Apparently saved, now we are able to leave Hell even after physical death and gain in spirit eternal life. Of course, we are trying to expiate the guilt for being born and alive, but, of course, not everyone succeeds. Muslim God brings Muslims out of Hell, Christian Christians. Other messengers, perhaps Angels, lead other nations out of Hell. Perhaps God is one, but the messengers on His behalf may be different, but it can be much more serious, tragic and more complicated.
11. Let's remember the famous phrase: "According to your faith, be it to you." Every individual person receives no more, no less than what he believes. If you tell yourself that everything sucks, then life will seem like hell. If you rejoice at what you have, and strive for something every day (like a seed that first breaks through the earth to germinate, and then all the time reaches for the sun), then life will pass harmoniously and harmoniously. As for love: only thanks to the fact that in our world there still lives selfless love, the earth didn't explode to hell. All other arguments supposedly showing us what kind of hell on earth are eliminated with the help of psychologists. You can easily get rid of fear, lack of self-confidence, anger, greed, etc. if you want it. Immediately after that, you will begin to perceive the world as GOOD.
12. People themselves created Hell on earth for themselves: a dead ecology, a destroyed earth, an eternal race for profit, who has more coins, poverty, inequality, disease and other suffering that people themselves created, scientists who all conduct experiments on us, wishing supposedly to create a good medicine, things needed in everyday life or extend our life on earth. Everyone has hell inside when life does not live up to expectations. But on earth we just live, this planet, on the contrary, was specially created for us, and we ourselves made Hell out of it.
13. You already have nowhere to go. You were born and you have to survive... to live to death!!!
Salvador Dali is one of the most famous people XX century, who became a celebrity not just during his lifetime, but at a fairly young age. Dali is known as a graphic artist, sculptor, director and writer, but primarily as a painter. Only one of his teachers, Pablo Picasso, could match his fame. And without exaggeration, we can say that Salvador Dali is the only surrealist whose name was heard by every person, no matter how far he was from art. It is he who owns the phrase "surrealism is me", which he said on the day when he was expelled from the group of surrealists.
The works of Salvador Dali amaze the imagination with the paradoxical nature of the figurative worldview, their ingenious unsurpassedness. You can describe the paintings of Salvador Dali for hours, but it is better to see them with your own eyes and form your own opinion about them. Below are some of the most famous paintings with titles and brief descriptions.
One of the first works of Salvador Dali. Made in the impressionistic style.
The picture was created during the artist's search for his manner and style of performance. The atmosphere is reminiscent of paintings by De Chirico.
The canvas is made in a cubist manner unusual for Dali, in imitation of one of the teachers of El Salvador - Pablo Picasso.
Experiments with geometric shapes already make you feel that mystical desert, which is characteristic of Dali in the later "surreal" period of creativity.
Another name is "Invisible", the picture demonstrates one of the main methods of Dali's painting - metamorphoses, hidden meanings and contours of objects.
It is believed that the canvas reveals the obsessions and childhood fears of Salvador Dali.
Like Enlightened Pleasures, the painting is a popular field for studying the personality of the painter among art historians.
The author's most famous and most discussed work among artists. It uses ideas from a number of previous works: a self-portrait and ants, soft clocks and the coast of Cadaqués, the birthplace of El Salvador.
Gala - the artist's beloved wife, is often present in his paintings. This canvas reflects Dali's paranoid-critical method.
This is not a painting, but a sculpture in the style of surrealism. Despite the symbols of fertility - bread and corn on the cob, Dali, as it were, emphasizes the price that has to be paid for this: the woman's face is full of ants eating her.
One of Dali's outright mockeries of communism. Main character according to Dali himself, this is Lenin in a cap. Is not The only job on this topic. For example, in 1931, the artist wrote.
It's not just a picture. This work was written on paper and realized as a real life-size room.
It is believed that the head of roses is a tribute to Arcimboldo, famous artist, who used vegetables and fruits in his work to draw up portraits (eggplant nose, wheat hair, etc.).
This canvas reflects the horror of the Spaniard, who understands that his country is moving towards a terrible civil war.
Statue. The most famous Dalian item. The idea of boxes is also present in the artist's painting.
Another name is "The Transformation of Narcissus". Deep psychological work.
It is known that Dali spoke differently about Hitler. At least in the year the picture was written, the main emotion towards Hitler was more sympathy than anything else.
One of the most famous "optical" paintings by Salvador Dali, in which he plays with color associations and angle of view. Look at the picture at different distances - you will see different scenes.
Brightness, lightness and illusory nature of what is happening. The long-legged elephant in the background is one of popular characters Dali..
One of the paintings of the period of Salvador's passion for physics. Images, objects and faces are broken into spherical corpuscles.
Crucifixion or Hypercubic Body (1954)
The original name "Corpus hypercubus" is often used in Russian-language literature without translation. On the canvas, the crucifixion of Christ is depicted. Dali turns to religion, but writes biblical stories in his own way, bringing a substantial amount of mysticism to the pictures. And in the "religious" paintings, the artist's wife Gala is often present.
Salvador Dali, thanks to his all-consuming talent, could turn everything he touched into " Museum exhibit”, into a masterpiece, a legacy for future generations. Whether it was a photograph or a painting, a book or an advertisement, he managed to do everything on highest level. He is a genius who was cramped in his own country, his work was ahead of its time, and thanks to this, the artist became “great” during his lifetime. Today we, as you may have guessed, will talk about the most famous representative of surrealism - Salvador Dali and his best, most famous paintings.
“... I made up my mind and began to comprehend space-time by contemplating levitation, which destroys entropy” - the words of the artist, said as a description of his painting depicting the process of losing shape. Was written in 1956. Currently located in the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.
"Landscape near Figueres" is one of the most early works artist, which he wrote at the age of 6 on a postcard in 1910. This a prime example, illustrating the impressionistic period of Dali's work. It is currently stored in private collection Albert Field in New York.
The Invisible Man or The Invisible Man is a painting painted by Salvador Dali between 1929 and 1933. Stored in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. This is an unfinished experimental work in which Dali practiced double imagery. On it, the artist very exquisitely depicted the hidden meanings and contours of objects.
"The appearance of a face and a bowl of fruit on the seashore" - another surreal painting demonstrating metamorphoses, hidden meanings and contours of objects. The similarity of a fruit bowl on the table and the landscape form a folded figure of a dog and a human face. This work was written in 1938. It is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
In 1943, during the Second World War, Dali painted a picture about the birth of a new man. We see how a person is trying to hatch from an egg, which symbolizes the birth new strength, and is also a symbol of the universe.
This work was painted in 1940, at the beginning of World War II in California, USA, where the artist lived for 8 years. Through his work, he condemns the horrors of war and the suffering of the people who face it. The canvas is located in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
“Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening” is one of the few paintings painted by Dali in 1944. This is an example of Freud's influence on surrealist art, as well as the artist's attempt to explore the world of dreams. Located in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
The picture was painted in 1954. This is an unconventional, surrealistic image of Jesus Christ crucified on the unfolding of a tesseract - a hypercube. The woman below is Gala, the wife of Salvador Dali. The artist, as it were, hints at the fact that Christ is crucified by the coldness of this world and soullessness. The painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Undoubtedly, this is one of the best and most famous paintings by Salvador Dali. Was written in 1931. It has three names - "Persistence of memory", "Persistence of memory" and " soft watch". It is interesting that the idea of its creation was inspired by the artist's view of processed Camembert cheese. It depicts a person's experience of time and memory, which is enlivened by the area of the unconscious, in the form of a flowing clock.
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Salvador Dali ( full name Salvador Domenech Felip Jacinte Dali and Domenech, Marquis de Dali de Pubol, cat. Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, Spanish Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí y de Púbol; May 11, 1904 (19040511), Figueres - January 23, 1989, Figueres) - Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, director, writer. One of the most well-known representatives surrealism.
Worked on films: "Andalusian Dog", "Golden Age" (directed by Luis Buñuel), "Bewitched" (directed by Alfred Hitchcock). Author of the books secret life Salvador Dali as told by himself (1942), The Diary of a Genius (1952-1963), Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution (1927-33) and the essay The Tragic Myth of Angelus Millet.
Salvador Dali was born in Spain on May 11, 1904 in the city of Figueres, province of Girona, in the family of a wealthy notary. He was a Catalan by nationality, perceived himself in this capacity and insisted on this peculiarity. He had a sister, Anna Maria Dalí (Spanish: Anna Maria Dalí, January 6, 1908 - May 16, 1989), and an older brother (October 12, 1901 - August 1, 1903), who died of meningitis. Later, at the age of 5, at his grave, his parents told Salvador that he was the reincarnation of his older brother.
As a child, Dali was a quick-witted, but arrogant and uncontrollable child. One day, he started a row in the marketplace for a candy, a crowd gathered around, and the police asked the owner of the shop to open it during a siesta and give the boy a sweet. He achieved his whims and simulation, always sought to stand out and attract attention.
Numerous complexes and phobias, for example, the fear of grasshoppers, prevented him from being included in the usual school life, make with children the usual ties of friendship and sympathy. But, like any person, experiencing sensory hunger, he sought emotional contact with children by any means, trying to get used to their team, if not in the role of a comrade, then in any other role, or rather the only one that he was capable of - in the role shocking and naughty child, strange, eccentric, always acting contrary to other people's opinions. Losing in school gambling, he acted like he won and triumphed. Sometimes he got into fights for no reason.
Classmates treated the "strange" child rather intolerantly, used his fear of grasshoppers, slipped these insects into his collar, which drove Salvador to hysteria, which he later told in his book "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, told by himself."
learn fine arts Dali started at the municipal art school. From 1914 to 1918 he was educated at the Academy of the Brothers of the Marist Order in Figueres. One of his childhood friends was the future football player of FC Barcelona, Josep Samitier. In 1916, with the family of Ramon Picho, he went on vacation to the city of Cadaques, where he got acquainted with modern art.
In 1921, at the age of 47, Dali's mother died of breast cancer. For Dali, this was a tragedy. The same year, he enters the San Fernando Academy. The drawing prepared by him for the exam seemed too small to the caretaker, about which he informed his father, and he, in turn, to his son. Young Salvador erased the entire drawing from the canvas and decided to draw a new one. But he had only 3 days left before the final assessment. However, the young man was in no hurry to work, which greatly worried his father, who was already behind long years suffered his quirks. In the end, young Dali said that the drawing was ready, but it was even smaller than the previous one, and this was a blow to his father. However, the teachers, due to their extremely high skill, made an exception and accepted the young eccentric into the academy.
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Salvador Dali is rightfully considered one of the most famous representatives of surrealism. There is no person in the world who has not even glimpsed his paintings.
"Surrealism is me"- Salvador DaliSalvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in the Catalan city of Fineras. As a child, Salvador was a bright but very stubborn child who got into trouble more than once. Young Salvador always tried to stand out, but because of a large number phobia could not be found mutual language with peers. Your training artistic skill Salvador started back at school in 1914.
In 1921, Salvador Dali entered the Academy of San Fernando, where he continued to study painting. Despite his undeniable talent, Dali was expelled from the Academy in 1926, again due to unbearable behavior.
After young artist goes to Paris, where he meets Pablo Picasso, who greatly influenced his work in subsequent years. In Paris, Salvador meets his future wife Gala.
Gradually, fame comes to Dali, his paintings are exhibited, later he joins the group of surrealists, from which he leaves with a scandal in 1936. Everyone around was struck by the actions and views of Dali.
However, few people think about what these actions really meant. Dali rarely tried to offend anyone, he just lived in a different world, the world of surrealism. And it can be characterized only through the prism of surrealistic concepts.
Having visited Italy, Dali was delighted with the creations of the Renaissance, which could not but affect his future work. With the outbreak of World War II, Dali decides to move to the United States with his wife, where he actively collaborates with directors and film companies. Unfortunately, many of the ideas proposed by the artist were deemed inappropriate and never saw the light of day.
Then Dali returned to Spain, then again conquered Paris. His work was not limited to paintings. The artist was engaged in films, advertising, costumes. In every idea he found a way to express himself.
In 1981, the artist begins to develop Parkinson's disease, and a year later, Gala dies, which plunges the artist into a prolonged depression that affected his work. His illness developed preventing him from living and painting. Dali moves to the castle, when presented to Gala, but after an accident leaves for the theater-museum, where he meets his death in 1989.
Salvador Dali is not easy talented artist, this is an exceptional personality, shaped in many ways by his talent and his phobias. Each of his paintings is priceless and it is not possible to choose the best among them. Therefore, we decided to opt for those paintings by the artist, which are considered his most famous works.
