Chad is Dead Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Long story but very good read....the audio is really freaky. http://www.av1611.org/hell.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Please. That is absolute christian propaganda garbage that has been repeated by naive' e-mail forwarders for like 10 years. Origins: This legend is quite popular among Christian groups as it "proves" Hell (and therefore God) exists. Popular endings to the story have it that the scientists ran screaming from the site, or that since the discovery conversions to Christianity are occurring at an unprecedented rate. If there is a Hell under Siberia, scientists have yet to discover it. What we have here is an enthralling legend that's been spun off an actual event. In 1984, an article about an experimental well in Russia's Kola Peninsula appeared in Scientific American. The Kola well reached 12 kilometers into the ground, where scientists encountered rare rock formations, flows of gas and water, and temperatures up to 180°. (That's 180°, folks, not the 2,000° usually reported in any "Scientists Discover Hell!" screed. It was hot, but it wasn't hellishly so.) Those who did the actual drilling of this very real well did not break through to a hollow centre, and certainly no piteous screams of the damned were heard. That part — all of it — was pure embellishment added after this real event was turned into a legend. (Yes, we know that any number of web sites offer audio clips purporting to be the screams of the damned as recorded in the Well to Hell, and all of them sound like they could be the noise from a typical bar on a busy Friday evening.) The report on the digging of that well and the difficulties encountered during the project were collided with someone's vision of what should have been found down there. A little exaggerating about depth and temperature, some fabrication about hollow centres and screams, and all of a sudden there was this great story to throw back at those who claim there is no God. Though it's impossible to pinpoint when the news story about a well in Russia transformed into a story about scientists breaking into Hell or who was responsible for that transformation, we do know that in 1989 the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) aired a "Scientists Discover Hell" story and placed the event as happening in the Kola Peninsula. A Norwegian schoolteacher visiting California heard that broadcast and took the story back to Norway with him. He then mailed it to a Christian magazine in Finland. In the form of a letter from a reader, it reached a Finnish missionaries newsletter. From there it returned to the United States, reaching both the TBN people and other evangelists who then claimed they had gotten it from a respected Finnish scientific journal. In the spring of 1990, the legend as we now know it appeared in both Praise The Lord (February) and Midnight Cry (April). Debunkings of it showed up in Christianity Today (July) and Biblical Archaeology Review (November). Even so, the Weekly World News ran the story in 1992, this time setting it in Alaska and claiming thirteen oil rig workers were killed when the Devil came roaring up out of the ground. You can't beat that for embellishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar1647545494 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 STill a very freaky thought.. very freaky indeed. It's no wonder why there are so many religous people. Can you really fit all the dead people throughout human existance in the center of the earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson1647545504 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 STill a very freaky thought.. very freaky indeed. It's no wonder why there are so many religous people. Can you really fit all the dead people throughout human existance in the center of the earth? Your soul is this --><-- big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Yeah... so like, I could still be on earth after I die? Kinda cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Oh yeah... FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemosley01 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 STill a very freaky thought.. very freaky indeed. It's no wonder why there are so many religous people. Can you really fit all the dead people throughout human existance in the center of the earth? Sure, cause if you put their bodies there, the would be incinerated and take up very little space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Oh yeah... FALSE: http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.htm This has got to be the easiest repost evar. Look about about 5 posts up chief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 This has got to be the easiest repost evar. Look about about 5 posts up chief. I know. Cmon alex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash1647545504 Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Jews have it made, they don't belive in hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DraconicPenguin Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 that webpage reminds me of this for some reason.. http://www.somethingawful.com/learning_triangle/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted September 10, 2005 Report Share Posted September 10, 2005 people are running out of mysterious untraveled places in the world to make up stories about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted September 10, 2005 Report Share Posted September 10, 2005 Jews have it made, they don't belive in hell. Thae are not the only ones.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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