Anonymous  +  324337 Sun, 04 Feb 07 10:28 PM have you guys ever thought of that? past the earths plates and stuff maybe thats where it is. its hotter than the sun in the middle of the earth. well just a suggestion Anonymous

	Ruslana  +  326380 Thu, 08 Feb 07 05:09 PM  Anonymous wrote: its hotter than the sun in the middle of the earth. Where did you take this info from? Ruslana Joined on Sat, Dec 17 2005 Senior Member 3,672

	nona the brit  +  326391 Thu, 08 Feb 07 05:31 PM That's what I used to believe when I was a kid. We always talk of heaven as 'up' and hell as 'down'. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.

	Ruslana  +  326412 Thu, 08 Feb 07 05:56 PM That's true, by the way. I've always stuck to the opinion the hell is somewhere there, below... under the ground... Maybe it's the underground in rush-hours? Ruslana

	spinnaker  +  326892 Fri, 09 Feb 07 02:26 PM That's normal thinking of the hell is bellow. Because the image of hell was/is hot. So where on earth it's hot? Only there! spinnaker

	J Lewis  +  328216 Mon, 12 Feb 07 12:39 PM On the scientific side, the centre of the earth is certainly very hot but not as hot as the sun! In the Nordic tradition hell was a cold place. We can still see this in our language. If a situation is terrible in general, we call it hell, but if we want to specify that it is hot and flaming we often use the Italian word "inferno" (thanks to Dante, I suppose). J Lewis Joined on Tue, Sep 5 2006 Italy Regular Member 518

	spinnaker  +  328451 Mon, 12 Feb 07 11:11 PM  J Lewis wrote: On the scientific side, the centre of the earth is certainly very hot but not as hot as the sun! That's true! But without it, the earth would cool. spinnaker