[ WP ] A device has been invented that allows the user to gaze upon Heaven or Hell . Hell is terrifying , and those who see it often need counselling . But their terror pales compared to those who witness God 's domain .

Hell is n't the worst thing you can imagine. It's not writhing in indescribable anguish in a lake of fire, being entombed in ice, or going insane in an infinite black soundless void. Nor is it drowning in corrosive shit, having your eyes and genitals eaten by maggots, being meticulously flayed by your one true love. eating your children alive as they scream in vain for you to stop, jamming needles under your fingernails just to feel *something* again, knowing that nobody ever loved you, or knowing that you ’ ve committed acts that make you unworthy of ever being loved again. 
 
 It's not even the despair caused by the absolute and inescapable truths that your torment will never end, you will never become accustomed to it, and that any attempt to reduce that torment will only be punished by further agonies -- and yet it is so utterly unbearable that you will constantly try to escape from it anyway, recognizing the futility of your actions but unable to stop yourself. 
 
 No, Hell is *all* of those things and infinitely many more besides, all happening simultaneously. For you see, time and space work very differently in Hell. The viewing screens ( thankfully ) only provide a limited window into that nightmarish world, but if you watch carefully you ’ ll see the same gaunt faces appear again and again as the victim of unlimited atrocities, the perpetrator, and sometimes both roles at once. And yet, while what you witness will haunt your dreams, it ’ s not the worst that Hell has to offer. 
 
 If you watch long enough you ’ re sure to see faces you recognize. Remember that time works differently in Hell; its never-ending cycle of agony and degradation traps not only the dead, but also many of the living and presumably those yet to be born. Seeing one ’ s neighbors, friends, family, or spouse suffering and committing unspeakable acts is of course traumatic, and the questions it engenders are far worse. Are their loved ones hiding dark secrets, or is damnation fundamentally unjust? Either possibility is intolerable. 
 
 If you watch very carefully, or are very unlucky, you may one day see *yourself*. 
 
 But you know this all already. What you may not know is that, with appropriate adjustments, the screens can be used to view Heaven as well. In fact, some of the earliest tests looked in on Heaven rather than Hell, although researchers didn ’ t realize it at the time. Of those stygionauts who later discovered Heaven, most were so far gone to the world that they were incapable of sharing their findings, and the few of reasonably sound mind were understandably reluctant to. 
 
 The problem is that, at first glance, Heaven is virtually indistinguishable from Hell: a boundless orgy of pain and cruelty in all their forms, overlapping and echoing into infinity. 
 
 But in Heaven they *like* it.
