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Nicodemus wants to be God
wardenferry419:
Doubt it, Deirdre made her bed, now time to take a dirt nap.
forumghost:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 20, 2017, 09:25:57 PM ---Doubt it, Deirdre made her bed, now time to take a dirt nap.
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I doubt that she'll be getting much napping done.
She spent the last few centuries committing horrible atrocities for "The Greater Good" Stop saying that! and the Greeks were big on ironic punishments. So, seeing as she liked to use her hair to blenderize people, she's probably going to spend all of eternity crawling naked through a field of Razor wire.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl.
jonas:
--- Quote from: forumghost on November 20, 2017, 11:39:31 PM ---I doubt that she'll be getting much napping done.
She spent the last few centuries committing horrible atrocities for "The Greater Good" Stop saying that! and the Greeks were big on ironic punishments. So, seeing as she liked to use her hair to blenderize people, she's probably going to spend all of eternity crawling naked through a field of Razor wire.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl.
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I know classically Hades has been big on the physical torments but on this one I hope he goes after her broken psyche more.
Honestly though look at the poor lass, how can she possibly be any more fugged up? Argues with mom, sleeps with dad in a hero worship relationship, not only commits horrible atrocities but casual evils under the guise of greater good? idk man. Hades don't got nothin on what's been done to her on that level... guess that's why he's a physical torment guy, the Greeks were already emotionally disturbed enough.
Ananda:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on November 20, 2017, 05:50:37 PM ---Believing in a cause does not make the cause, by itself, good. And, as for eternally punishing someone for an extended lifetime of evil acts that is called accountability.
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My point about her sincerity was that she was speaking honestly and openly about herself and her goals. She is not a witless puppet, but a willing participant in giving her life to help save the universe. That she may not have all information is rather beside the point. There and then, she is selfless and willing to sacrifice for the greater good.
On eternal torture and punishment- it’s madness. It’s cruelty unbound. It’s straight vengeance porn. It’s a bizarrely cruel concept for humans to have invented (though, quite effective as a means of control). As the perpetrator of this cruelty, Hades is one of the most twisted characters we’ve met so far in the series. Imagine yourself in such a role, doling out cruelty, pain, torture, unending anguish day after day for years, decades, centuries. What would that make you? I know how the story handled it, but the story indulges the fantasy. The practical reality of such a thing is beyond ugly, however.
Arjan:
Historically as far as I remember those punishments were only for a few special cases and the greek gods were never described as all good. For the rest it was just a grey and boring place.
for the real eternal sadism you have to go to later religions.
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