I mean The divine comedy
2007-07-11 22:42:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, I already speak a bit of Italian so I'll probably be OK
2007-07-11 22:52:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' is 'proved' to be 'Truth'? Do you mean as Dante wrote it, in an antique Italian which gives a headache to the relatively few Italians who bother with it today? Do you mean one of the several lousy English translations? Anyway, Dante was a bloody sad-sack of a fellow, wasn't he? Perhaps his mistress had just left him when he put pen to paper. Times change, societies change (a fact overlooked by most fundamentalist Christians and all Islamic ones). A different world, certainly a different Italy, was in place when the man wrote 'The Divine Comedy,' and much of what was an everyday thing THEN is gone-with-the-proverbial-wind NOW. I wouldn't rule out that the long poem could affect the way I live my life today; I just wish I could read the beautiful and mysterious Italian...metaphor, metaphor, metaphor...of Dante's time.
2007-07-12 06:01:03 · answer #2 · answered by Yank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't change anything because the only way to find that
1) Hell exist!
and
2) it's as described by Dante is to go there which means it's to late to change things.
Why wouldn't hell be like the DMV though, or better yet how do you know the universe isn't hell? You don't and nothing in the bible will define it clearly either.
I doubt that anything like Hell exist, and if it does it's for Satan and his angels and not humans.
2007-07-12 05:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Gnostic♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritually speaking, the divine comedy is not true. Thus, hypothetical questions are not good talking points in R & S. It is because it has no true basis and will only confuse peoples further.
2007-07-12 05:55:38 · answer #4 · answered by Prophet John of the Omega 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hmm.... i would still have the same basic questions for God that i have now. but, that being said, i would reevaluate my entire belief system since it's apparenlty way off in that situation. lol.
2007-07-12 05:52:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If not good lessons for anyone in life what is better for one to learn to better oneself? Are those experiences not part of life in general?
2007-07-12 05:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by JORGE N 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would live it the way I do now...
2007-07-12 05:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by - Tudor Gothic Serpent - 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a fiction. But anyhow we should change to good.
2007-07-12 05:47:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't, I will do what I want wile I am alive.
2007-07-12 05:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by Coma White 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wouldnt do a thing.
2007-07-16 04:01:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋