Abandoning All Hope | Heaven and Hell

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  • @KnowingBetter
    @KnowingBetter  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2458

    Judas got 30 pieces of silver. Whoops.
    Ulysses is the Roman version of Odysseus' name, similar to Mars/Ares or Neptune/Poseidon.

    • @friggy1899
      @friggy1899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Hey Knowing Better, Aries is the zodiac sign, Ares is the god.

    • @yakitatefreak
      @yakitatefreak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Great soundtrack. Korobeiniki, I presume?

    • @Serttok
      @Serttok 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      So if the "popular" depiction of hell is Dante's hell, then what's the actual, biblical hell supposed to be?
      Edit: Also, if Lucifer is chilling in the middle of hell with dudes stuffed in his mouth, is he not actually the "Lord of Hell"? Who's calling the shots in hell? The demon with the tail that wraps around you?

    • @TheHitmanIRL
      @TheHitmanIRL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Serttok I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, or anything more than a lapsed Catholic, but from what I can remember the only actual description of hell mentions flames and "gnashing of teeth" and I can't remember if it's canon but I recall somebody mentioned the waste dump outside Jerusalem. By that I mean it's alluded to as an allegory rather than exact coordinates XD
      About the Lucifer stuff I think he was supposed to be the literal Lord of Hell, as in he had dominion of hell and all those in it. But there's some non canonical bibles that might go into more detail.

    • @JosiahMcCarthy
      @JosiahMcCarthy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Serttok even the notion that we have of Satan/the devil/Lucifer is not that consistent and clear throughout the Bible. But the Bible refers to God as "the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell" and says the devil (evil one) and his angels will be thrown into a lake of fire. It's different in the old testament though, where they mostly just refer to sheol, the grave. But yeah, new testament descriptions of "where the bad people go," if you will, are something like, "darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Revelation is another story, and too confusing for me or most people to handle.) At some point, it became popular to think of hell as just being utterly cut off from God. Since God is goodness/ the source of all goodness, this means all you need for hell is to have none of him. Another idea is that there is no hell, that souls that don't spend eternity with God are just annihilated. Probably my favorite definition of hell is the one that says hell is actually just experiencing God's unveiled love, goodness, presence, etc, while knowing that you rejected him in life. That that produces such anguish in you, once you know how great his love is. I kind of like the idea that the revelation (granted understanding) of God's incredible nature is strong enough to make hell out of ultimate goodness, simply because you're a crooked person. Still sucks, though. This is sometimes combined with the idea that people come around eventually, through varying levels of being realigned to love God based on how bent/misaligned with God they were before. When people believe that everyone God ever created will necessarily, eventually be brought to reconciliation with God through this, that's one version of PUR, purgatorial universal reconciliation. It's sort of what I believed right before I stopped believing.

  • @ocbee6175
    @ocbee6175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3696

    Dante literally wrote biblical self-insert fan fic and it’s one of the most important pieces of literature in history

    • @ocbee6175
      @ocbee6175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      New Justice did I stutter?

    • @legoworksstudios1
      @legoworksstudios1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      The lesson: not all fanfiction is balderdash. Though it takes an expert to distinguish them. Are you one of the few, person reading this comment?

    • @KingJohn2007
      @KingJohn2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And my favorite book of all time.

    • @animasolis7058
      @animasolis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Technically he was writing allegory on the "enlightenment" experience, thinky veiled in catholic framework lest he be caught by the inquisition

    • @animasolis7058
      @animasolis7058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      That said, "hangin with my bros on a nice hill and they think I'm cool and my main man Virgil is my bestie now uwu"

  • @danmor2349
    @danmor2349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3597

    So they started counting Hell circles from 0, damn, Lucifer was a Computer programmer.

    • @pbrunet44
      @pbrunet44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Exactly my thoughts lmao

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      *God, as God created (and rules) Hell.

    • @vasilisioannou5794
      @vasilisioannou5794 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      This shows that people wiyh cs mayor are going to hell
      Well see you there

    • @codex3191
      @codex3191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@frechjo >rust
      you probably will be joining them there

    • @frechjo
      @frechjo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@codex3191
      Will I be forced to constantly pick the right memory copy routine, make all my pointers void, and use Duff's device for eternity? :P

  • @t.b.cont.
    @t.b.cont. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2625

    Dante visited the suicide forest before it was cool

    • @kvandermeersch5753
      @kvandermeersch5753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      He actually did it while it was still cool.

    • @coolthefool1
      @coolthefool1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂😂😂

    • @Redvines69
      @Redvines69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      I'll bet Epstein wasn't there :D

    • @nanoramirez9331
      @nanoramirez9331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Dante was the Logan Paul of his time

    • @bobbyo4955
      @bobbyo4955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Logan Paul will fit right in

  • @BewareofTarps
    @BewareofTarps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1712

    Dante: "These poor Ethiopians, who have never even heard of Jesus!"
    Ethiopia, second oldest Christian nation on Earth after Armenia: "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @zvidanyatvetski8081
      @zvidanyatvetski8081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

      To be fair, Ethiopia was not a nation of a people at the time but referred to all peoples south of the Sahara. The word Ethiopia is derived from a greek term meaning "Burnt faces". If Dante was to speak about what we know as Ethiopia today he most likely would have referred to Abyssinia or Axum, although I'm not sure what was the norm at the time.

    • @BewareofTarps
      @BewareofTarps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@zvidanyatvetski8081 It actually was the Empire of Ethiopia by that point, though Abyssinia was a common exonym. (Aksum/Axum hadn't been used for a long while, since that more properly referred to the Classical era state that was conquered by a different Ethiopian faction in 960 CE.)

    • @BewareofTarps
      @BewareofTarps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      @@Kokai-jg2ol they were Orthodox, though. Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, specifically. They weren't some weird offshoot branch; they were one of the original denominations of Christianity. See again: second oldest Christian nation on earth after Armenia.

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@BewareofTarps impressive knowledge. Not many Americans know even half of that.

    • @BewareofTarps
      @BewareofTarps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@amehak1922 it comes from being a bit of a history nerd. The Aksumite Empire and later Abyssinia and Ethiopia were really important players in both Classical and medieval history, and I think it's a damn shame that so few people seem to know about that fact.

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9284

    This was interesting as hell!

    • @sk198181
      @sk198181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      You're going to hell for your spelling and grammar.

    • @kennymccormick929
      @kennymccormick929 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      so hell is, interesting? you like suffering???

    • @NickMattia44
      @NickMattia44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Jesus take me with you, it'll be one hell of a trip

    • @notreallysure4575
      @notreallysure4575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      People have been looking for you

    • @thewiedzmin6062
      @thewiedzmin6062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      See you at the blasphemy ring my lord😂

  • @TheRenegade...
    @TheRenegade... 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1837

    Imagine being the neighbor and seeing what he's doing with no context.

    • @Erin-Thor
      @Erin-Thor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      LOL! That would add a whole new level of context that you have the neighbor from Hell. If the neighbors ever call the police on him and say that, when the officer scoffs, they can say, hey, I have PIC's! Here’s proof! 👺

    • @johnsinth8261
      @johnsinth8261 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lol

    • @justustherighteous371
      @justustherighteous371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      At 16:40 that’s the tetrix music as piano remix and slower

    • @GiRR007
      @GiRR007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      its crusade time

    • @thiccchungo1041
      @thiccchungo1041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Therapist: Red Knowing Better is not real and cannot hurt you
      Red Knowing Better:

  • @tamerlane9889
    @tamerlane9889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +924

    Saint Bernard: It really do be like that sometime

    • @andrewzhao444
      @andrewzhao444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It really does.

    • @tamerlane9889
      @tamerlane9889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It be @@andrewzhao444

    • @tamerlane9889
      @tamerlane9889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@akahimself7321 really sometime be it

    • @tamerlane9889
      @tamerlane9889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@devoliukas7108 Timurlane was the found of the timurid empier

    • @barfeyman3622
      @barfeyman3622 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen

  • @ZephLodwick
    @ZephLodwick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +779

    Imagine writing a fanfiction so popular that the language it was written in became the Lingua Franca of the Italian Peninsula. He technically didn't write it in Italian; he wrote in in Tuscan. After Italy became a country, they chose Tuscan, Dante's language, as the official language of their nation, and it spread from there.

    • @aoiminase
      @aoiminase 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah that time Tuscan should be the capital city not rome

    • @rahmspinat
      @rahmspinat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@aoiminase Tuscan isn't a city broseph

    • @aoiminase
      @aoiminase 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@rahmspinat lo so ma non mi viene in mente come si dice Torino in inglese
      È Torino

    • @peppino1347
      @peppino1347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@aoiminase torino in inglese si dice turin

    • @aoiminase
      @aoiminase 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah Alessandro Manzoni

  • @ginargent5077
    @ginargent5077 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1963

    I should write a novel about CGP Grey guiding Knowing Better through the 9 circles of demonetization.

    • @MultiMariana55
      @MultiMariana55 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I'd read it

    • @CarlsCozyCorner
      @CarlsCozyCorner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      See ya in 20 :D

    • @starkeeper_youtube
      @starkeeper_youtube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      And it'd be a bestseller lmao

    • @miss1of2
      @miss1of2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Is heaven patreon?

    • @1996koke
      @1996koke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      The third circle, historioum is for those TH-camrs who were demonetized for daring to upload a video about history, here Knowing better finds The armchair historian and Indy Neidell asking for support on Patreon.

  • @novaglacrr6114
    @novaglacrr6114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +886

    "The city of Dis. Dis is the city of hell, and dis is a ferret, and dis is another ferret."
    Beautiful.

    • @JMD501
      @JMD501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I don't think that is correct dat was a ferret and dat was another ferret

    • @toasterbath8633
      @toasterbath8633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      dis nutz

    • @petergant1379
      @petergant1379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Despite that, much rolling of many eyes did occur!

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@petergant1379 This video here has a Part 2-1000 thx to Atheist-TH-camrs existing.
      If you like deep-dives into Religion or fascinating, welllll-researched Discussions
      about any Aspect of it, what about Holy Koolaid, Rhino, and Aron Ra?

    • @tbomb69
      @tbomb69 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bet the spider mastermind is there

  • @XanCrews
    @XanCrews 5 ปีที่แล้ว +981

    A video steeped in symbolism with Tetris music for Purgatory? Yeah, alright.

    • @JMM33RanMA
      @JMM33RanMA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Some of the "music" used in very old video games would also make an eternity of listening quite Hellish! I still play some of them, but with the "music" turned off.

    • @anony36
      @anony36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      wish he was using verbalese version

    • @twinkiesmaster69
      @twinkiesmaster69 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      h

    • @hanzundfranz
      @hanzundfranz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well the korobushka dance is a round, and can be done infinitely, so long as you keep to the rhythm.

    • @munendersingh5631
      @munendersingh5631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True

  • @barrybrevik9178
    @barrybrevik9178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    As a computing professional, I am thrilled to find out that hell has a 0th circle.
    Now we can do math with the circles of hell!

    • @natasha8007
      @natasha8007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It’s enough evidence for me to believe there’s a good chance of WiFi!

    • @House_MAL
      @House_MAL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@natasha8007 I hope anyone from hell didn’t have to watch the presidential debate

  • @nastrael
    @nastrael 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2180

    Fun fact: a possible translation for Cerberus is "spotted"
    Hades named his dog Spot.

    • @johnalanelson
      @johnalanelson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Nah, it was a Dalmation!

    • @unverifiedbiotic
      @unverifiedbiotic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@johnalanelson I GET IT! 🙌

    • @simonnachreiner8380
      @simonnachreiner8380 5 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Kerberos is the latinised version of cerberus and is the one that means spotted
      Still funny as hades

    • @madlibs4
      @madlibs4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      And then Mickey named his dog Pluto.

    • @henrywong2725
      @henrywong2725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Are you an osp fan?

  • @usahenry
    @usahenry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +816

    I've got a strong feeling the second level of hell is Florida

    • @biker1373
      @biker1373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It's God's waiting room.

    • @joestanton656
      @joestanton656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Flawda baby jit 🔥🔥🌴🌴glee

    • @Skelstoolbox
      @Skelstoolbox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Why? I'd trade my Canadian passport any day to live there... Why? The sweet gun laws and endless feral pig hunting with my compound bow.. Sounds sweet to me.. I don't mind winter at all and love snowmobiling and x country skiing.. Not sure how I'd deal with the heat tho..

    • @incoldblood975
      @incoldblood975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Live there. Can confirm.

    • @dread-cthulu
      @dread-cthulu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Skelstoolbox
      Florida is hell in liquid form.

  • @samueltitone5683
    @samueltitone5683 5 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    Basically Dante’s inferno is the most influential fanfic of all time.

    • @brambl3014
      @brambl3014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      King Arthur as well

    • @nullnull7089
      @nullnull7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The bible is fanfic of the Torah

    • @KSJune
      @KSJune 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah, Lil Soniq’s Sonics Ultimate Harem is pretty damn influential

    • @skwills1629
      @skwills1629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nullnull7089 No, the Bibke is not Fanfic of the Torsah. The Torah is actually part of the Bible.Why do peopel thing he TOrah is a separate book all together?

    • @nullnull7089
      @nullnull7089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@skwills1629 Because it was written well before the Christian bible, what do you think the Jews were doing for all those years before Jesus?

  • @francesco9281
    @francesco9281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    The most impressive thing about his work, or at least to me, is that it's ALL in a fixed rhyme scheme, and every single verse is made up of 11 syllables. Its truly impressive to stay consistent for 3 books

  • @smudolinithegreatdragobear2433
    @smudolinithegreatdragobear2433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +863

    Man that makeup looks uncomfortable. Way to suffer for your craft man!

    • @StellaTerraClemens
      @StellaTerraClemens 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Contrapoints sends her regards...

    • @BobbyK19
      @BobbyK19 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@StellaTerraClemens Literally this ^ 😁

    • @fecesdasheeit1581
      @fecesdasheeit1581 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I concur

    • @Shaun.Stephens
      @Shaun.Stephens 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@StellaTerraClemens Thanks for that. I wasn't aware of ContraPoints previously.

    • @jacktherater3533
      @jacktherater3533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Content is good. Make up is an unnecessary gimmick.

  • @tomasjefferson6193
    @tomasjefferson6193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    When you said picture hell I thought of the Minecraft Nether

    • @radagast7200
      @radagast7200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Satan is a big square ghost who spits fireballs. Confirmed.

    • @coreyperdue37
      @coreyperdue37 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The nether is my favorite place in minecraft. What does that say about me?

    • @andrewprahst2529
      @andrewprahst2529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And The End is Paradiso and "The Sky" which was cut from the game is purgatory.

    • @andrewprahst2529
      @andrewprahst2529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Chronfucius Satan is describes as a guy with three faces and you don't immediately think of the Wither?

    • @coreyperdue37
      @coreyperdue37 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewprahst2529 I think you have those flippef

  • @GinHindew110
    @GinHindew110 5 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    A self inset fan-fic about a guy who gets noticed by sempai and goes on a quest to find his waifu

    • @julianbell9161
      @julianbell9161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      And that self-insert fan-fix became official Christian doctrine

    • @ScythianGryphon
      @ScythianGryphon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Everything in the world is boring if you want it to be.

    • @raelaash4759
      @raelaash4759 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      delete dis

    • @NotNewButYork
      @NotNewButYork 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@raelaash4759 nice one!

    • @IrizarryBrandon
      @IrizarryBrandon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gotta love 2019+ vernacular

  • @JamesDPate
    @JamesDPate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Dante liked the number 9 because he understood how Hebrew numbers work. 3 and 7 are considered to be the perfect numbers in Hebrew, as both consist of a beginning, a middle, and an end. 9 is like a perfect multiple of 3, given that it is three 3s put together, thus having a beginning a middle and an end. That's why Dante used 9.
    On another note, the number 6 is considered evil, because it doesn't have a middle, but it made up of two 3s or perfect numbers. The reason 666 is used to describe Satan is that it is 3 of these evil numbers put together, thus symbolizing that he is perfect in his evil-ness. Kind of crazy when you get to know what all the numbers represent. Symbolism is a big deal in ancient Judaism and Christianity.

  • @lilfreezie6302
    @lilfreezie6302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1816

    Literally no one:
    Knowing Better: *Satan face*

    • @kevinvu5432
      @kevinvu5432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Where did this meme come from and why does it exist.

    • @maulwurf9414
      @maulwurf9414 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thousand Dragon #DDM

    • @HelderGriff
      @HelderGriff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kevinvu5432 I think it comes from Rawling's tweets about Harry Potter's stuff (the saga)
      I believe that because that's when it makes the more sense

    • @jeremykyles567
      @jeremykyles567 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HelderGriff gay

    • @t1glistenerelf
      @t1glistenerelf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I refuse to break the 666 likes.

  • @cej3940
    @cej3940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    I remember when I was 6, I used to believe that Limbo was just like those Canadian tire waiting rooms, filled with people reading magazines or newspapers for a long bloody time

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That’s the depiction they used in Being Human (at least the original one, not sure about the American one). You wait around for hours reading magazines about nothing, waiting for your number to get called. Eventually after someone leads you down a long corridor, you’re shown to a slightly different but basically identical waiting room and given another number. Ad infinitum

  • @jadenduran5539
    @jadenduran5539 5 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    Knowing Better, Overly Sarcastic Productions, and CGP Grey. The Holy Trinity of social studies

    • @maxi608
      @maxi608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jaden Duran I agree

    • @dbzfanexwarbrady
      @dbzfanexwarbrady 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      more like a Tri-Force

    • @jamiee7367
      @jamiee7367 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen

    • @philismenko
      @philismenko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      His moniter 60 fps thing was bs but...

    • @isaacroebuck9514
      @isaacroebuck9514 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In a way I like CGP Gray, I really enjoy a lot of the content. But I find every word that comes out of Grey's mouth to be filled with the most unbearably flagrant pomposity, that I can't help but roll my eyes through every single video.

  • @dorahthedestroyer1264
    @dorahthedestroyer1264 5 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    when ur 5th circle of hell is literal heaven for vikings

    • @superbeltman6197
      @superbeltman6197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What is the 5th circle

    • @AStrangeTree
      @AStrangeTree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Not necessarily. He depicted the River Styx more like a giant swamp, to represent how people “stew” in their own anger as it destroys them. One guy tries to get on the ship and Dante beats him off of it, which Virgil approves of

    • @blairbrown4812
      @blairbrown4812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Valhalla

    • @hardcaselj111
      @hardcaselj111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      VALHALLA

    • @sean5558
      @sean5558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@AStrangeTree Dante beats him off?

  • @pippomaneful
    @pippomaneful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    Strictly speaking, when Dante wrote the DC Italian did not really exist. He wrote the DC using the language spoken in Florence. His work helped establishing Tuscan as the national language of Italy, and it was formally adopted when Italy was unified in 1861.

    • @packardexelence
      @packardexelence 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      pippomaneful--THANK YOU; wile NO language fan, I REALLY LIKE your technical
      historic accuracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am an Automotive historian;---& O GOD!!!!! do
      the WANABEES EVER SCREW IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------FORD FALSEHOODS???; I SHOULD WRITE A BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @NotNewButYork
      @NotNewButYork 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@packardexelence so true, I recently saw a mustang with a false hood, looked awful...

    • @packardexelence
      @packardexelence 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NotNewButYork THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF CRACK I WOULD EXPECT
      FROM A BRITISH-MARSAN COWBOY-😉😉😉;----THANKS!! BOOKMARKED--KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA!!!!!------ME??? I WAS ADOPTED
      FROM ALPHA-CENTAURI:-----MY POOR PARENTS; A WOOD-WORKER
      RASEING A CAR-NUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @fedrikrose2277
      @fedrikrose2277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Florence's language can be called Italian, in fact the Divine Comedy is studied in Italian schools and the difference is extremely minimal especially when spoken. The real major difference is just found in the word used, as some of them either are not used anymore or are not commonly used.

    • @lxi9648
      @lxi9648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      XIV century Italian is basically Vulgar Latin

  • @deadblue324
    @deadblue324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    Yes, because the Tetris theme is the most demonic song fitted for hell and purgatory

    • @willowisp1376
      @willowisp1376 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obviously we all know Tetris is the real root of all sin

  • @XerxesZangeneh
    @XerxesZangeneh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +451

    Ah yes, to symbolize heavenly beauty you use Riley Reid, an exemplary Christian who definitely wouldn’t get stuck on Venus.

    • @margaretgrace713
      @margaretgrace713 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I thought that was Riley!

    • @TAEYYO
      @TAEYYO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I LOL'd when I saw that photo.

    • @Sacremas
      @Sacremas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was just thinking then that anyone who recognizes the stand-in model is definitely going to the more interesting segments of the lust-decibel curve, lol.

    • @harveyholmes9533
      @harveyholmes9533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      All of us who know who she is will be joining her, sounds like heaven to me

    • @mikeoxsmal8022
      @mikeoxsmal8022 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      timstap

  • @azzamfs
    @azzamfs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +198

    when a fanfic is so good, it becomes canon

    • @jakobbauz
      @jakobbauz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It didn't though.

    • @mr.goodpliers6988
      @mr.goodpliers6988 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not canon

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jakobbauz I mean, not officially, but a good deal of Catholic art from the 14th century onward takes inspiration in some way or an another from Dante's work to represent Hell. There were representations before, of course, but it left a mark on later works of art.

    • @justanotheremptychannel2472
      @justanotheremptychannel2472 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fandom canon then?

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samrevlej9331 But not really. Dante drew on current understandings and popular ideas.

  • @AjayDasgupta
    @AjayDasgupta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" should be this planet's official tagline.

    • @txqea9817
      @txqea9817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      i cant disagree,

    • @goramboup2534
      @goramboup2534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      My Greek/Latin teacher had that printed out and taped to the door of his classroom.

    • @fra604
      @fra604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lasciate ogne speranza, o voi ch'intrate

    • @FGuilt
      @FGuilt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or how bout the Democratic national headquarter building

    • @matteosalsedo8316
      @matteosalsedo8316 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Abbandonate ogni speranza oh voi che entrate

  • @matthewthomson6466
    @matthewthomson6466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    18:00 “Thots can still be sinful.”
    -Knowing Better 2019

    • @matthewthomson6466
      @matthewthomson6466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Also 21:16 “Purgatory is for lustful thots.” This video is a goldmine of snippets 😂😂

    • @superbeltman6197
      @superbeltman6197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      17:59 is a better stamp

  • @pokeanand
    @pokeanand 5 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    Minor correction:
    Ali wasn't the Prophet Muhammad's son, he was his cousin/son-in-law.

    • @GormTheElder
      @GormTheElder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Thank you. The "son" part threw me off, because Ali wasn't the son of Muhammed and thus I figured he couldn't have been talking about Islam.

    • @iisgray
      @iisgray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      In common language, it is reasonable to simplify a son-in-law as a son. It may have been worth being specific about though.

    • @taj4137
      @taj4137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wait what, when did he mention that?

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@taj4137 It was the one he left out when discussing the sowers of discord.

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A. N. Shia started because they believed Ali should be caliph (And should be a dynasty), and there would be only 7. Hussein is supposed to be the final and start the apocalypse.

  • @alisward5967
    @alisward5967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    “Dis is two ferrets” Dis is why I subscribed.

  • @Jadeon
    @Jadeon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +553

    Is that the Tetris theme in the Purgatory section?

    • @longman9787
      @longman9787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yepperino

    • @fallingpetunias9046
      @fallingpetunias9046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I am the man who arranges the blocks

    • @fiffy326
      @fiffy326 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Thought i was going crazy I was playing tetris while this was in the background

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Minos: I am the man who arranges the souls
      Who descend upon me from up above...

    • @Jayden3649
      @Jayden3649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought I was going insane from too much tetris 99

  • @danielevans7439
    @danielevans7439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Excommunication: “We’ve decided that you’re not going to Heaven, and we’ve told God about our decision.”
    🧐 Accurate

    • @hektorforever
      @hektorforever 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's not what excommunication is

    • @Delgen1951
      @Delgen1951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Excommunication is were someone is kicked out of the Church, as a punishment by the church for breach of Church discipline, It does not forbid the excommunicate one form repenting and being saved. the whole We’ve decided that you’re not going to Heaven, and we’ve told God about our decision.”
      is bad theology and a misunderstanding of what Excommunication is in that it forgets God is Sovereign.
      The idea that you have posted would require God to go back on so many of his promises that would be totally against God's character so that it would be impossible for that to happen. God has said I will never leave or forsake you, In just about each book of the bible, and Jesus has said "I will never lose any you have given me, but one", and "None can shance any one form my hand." So the weight of the evidence in the bible is this understanding of Excommunication is not correct.

    • @DeusExRequiem
      @DeusExRequiem 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Delgen1951 from Wikipedia "In first Christian centuries excommunication was not regarded as a simple external measure; it touched the soul and the conscience. It was not merely the severing of the outward bond which holds individual to their place in the Church; it severed also the internal bond, and the sentence pronounced on earth was understood to be ratified in heaven."
      So, while not accurate now, it once was accurate. And the fact you can beg and plead to have them ask god to forgive you doesn't change the fact they effectively told god what they decided.

    • @danielevans7439
      @danielevans7439 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What James Williston said: the description in the video is not how excommunication is supposed to be used, but it was historically abused like this. I have no qualms about kicking unrepentant “Christians” out of the Church, as not doing so sends a message that repentance isn’t important.

  • @MrCrazyeyes07
    @MrCrazyeyes07 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    “I don’t actually know what sleet is.” -Hawaii Man

  • @Hostefar
    @Hostefar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    “Wood of the suicides”
    *Wait a minute*

  • @LordRavensong
    @LordRavensong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    Overly Sarcastic Productions did a 3 part series summarizing the Divine Comedy, if you guys are interested

    • @kalman0966
      @kalman0966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      LordRavensong yeah the links in the description 🤦‍♂️

    • @KaoticPopTartz
      @KaoticPopTartz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kalman09 he’s joking, smart one

    • @LordRavensong
      @LordRavensong 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kalman0966 I realized that when I finished the video. I made the comment before I finished because I had to watch it in two sessions

    • @wwthing
      @wwthing 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dog joke.

  • @andrewollmann304
    @andrewollmann304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    Knowing Better, the Lustful are not “Blown over.” The wind actually blows them off of their feet and they “fly” with the wind.
    Also, the gluttonous don’t eat the slush....Cerberus did. They’re just kinda forced to lay down in the stinky mud while Cerberus claws and nips at them.
    The first bolgia is for panders and seducers, you got that part right, you just mixed up the punishment. You see, the bolgia are like moats connected by bridges...Dante and Virgil have to go to the midpoint of the bridge to view the punishment. What they see is two files of sinners, one file coming toward them and the other running in the way they’re facing. As they walk, they are being lashed by horned demons (in ancient times, people believed that if you cheated, you grew horns on your head.) As they goaded others in life, they are now being goaded in death.
    Finally, remember that Lucifer is a perversion, a mockery of all God is. The three faces on one body mimic the Trinity, but are actually the polar opposites of the qualities described on the Gates of Hell (Divine Omnipotence-Extreme Helplessness, Supreme Intelligence-Deepest Ignorance, First Love-Ultimate Hatred.)
    A few minor things...all the dead in Hell have knowledge of the far future on Earth (one of the gluttons proved this when he gave Dante a prophecy), but they don’t know anything of present time. A soul actually believed his son was dead because of Dante’s confusion about the topic. Medusa did not appear to Dante, but three furies called for her. In the fifth circle, there is another group of sinners under the Styx’s mud, the sullen, or the people who internalized their anger. As they choked on their anger in life, now they choke on the black mud of the Styx.
    Last two things....what Dante calls “art” is really human industry.. The argument is that humans, by their nature, work for God...all they do is to exalt God. Therefore, their labor is dedicated to God, in a way. However, moneylending is not proper....with moneylending there is no labor involved...thus, it’s sinful. Also, the sinners in the third region of Cocytus aren’t on top of the ice (the poet is clear that the wind freezes things pretty quickly.) Rather, they are lying supine with their faces up. Since they’re eternally weeping, the wind freezes their tears and makes it look like they have crystal visors on. One last thing, the last zone in Hell is not for those traitorous to God specifically, but just traitorous to their lords.

    • @alexanderward5286
      @alexanderward5286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Andrew Ollmann That Last point cleared a lot up for me because I was confused on how Brutus and Cassius betrayed God. When you write it was betrayers to their lords that certainly clears things for me. Thanks

    • @listen1st267
      @listen1st267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you for all the extra clarifications. I wasn't all that satisfied with his explanation

    • @superbeltman6197
      @superbeltman6197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why so long though

    • @briangronberg6507
      @briangronberg6507 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s also confusing 40 pieces of silver with 30.

  • @Old_Harry7
    @Old_Harry7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    It's worth pointing out that every, and I mean EVERY, single line of text in the Divine Comedy has a second, third and fourth hidden meaning and message to it.
    All of that while also following a perfect rhyme scheme.
    So proud of my boy Dante (or Durante).

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This video here has a Part 2-1000 thx to Atheist-TH-camrs existing.
      If you like deep-dives into Religion or fascinating, welllll-researched Discussions
      about any Aspect of it, what about Holy Koolaid, Rhino, and Aron Ra?

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@slevinchannel7589 Aron Ra isnt in the same league.

  • @sikeyouthot8894
    @sikeyouthot8894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I was not expecting him to put on red face paint and go all out omg. I love his commitment, I think it’s great. By the way, your videos are amazing.

    • @christianhohenstein1422
      @christianhohenstein1422 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But redfacing isn't PC.....

    • @abdmzn
      @abdmzn 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I couldn't take him seriously.. not that any of that bs he's talking about can be taken seriously anyway.

  • @PandaBurrie
    @PandaBurrie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I love that the theme song of purgatory is a slow rendition of Tetris. Very apt, kudos.

    • @chrissytheconqueror7049
      @chrissytheconqueror7049 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you maybe please know the name of this particular version?

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrissytheconqueror7049 This video here has a Part 2-1000 thx to Atheist-TH-camrs existing.
      If you like deep-dives into Religion or fascinating, welllll-researched Discussions
      about any Aspect of it, what about Holy Koolaid, Rhino, and Aron Ra?

  • @anshagrawal254
    @anshagrawal254 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Our Lord and Savior has descended from heaven bringing a 30 min video with him

  • @BJTangerine
    @BJTangerine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    "The second circle of Hell is where the fun begins." - Knowing Better; March 24, 2019

    • @superbeltman6197
      @superbeltman6197 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      the exact date is probably wrong because of editing

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L ปีที่แล้ว

      @@superbeltman6197but quotes from magazines cite the publication date, not the day they were submitted to the editor nor the day they were finished

  • @Albanez39
    @Albanez39 5 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    CORRECTION: The Comedy was not written in 1300, it is set in 1300. Dante started writing it in 1308 and finished it in 1320...

    • @carboy101
      @carboy101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      No one cares you dork.

    • @BigWheel.
      @BigWheel. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@carboy101 your step dad cares

    • @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462
      @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I think he meant the 1300s, but thank you for being accurate. People do care and are appreciative.

    • @vistagreat9994
      @vistagreat9994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@carboy101 people do care bad person >:(
      very angry. :(

    • @VieiraFi
      @VieiraFi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I, as a catholic, tried to nitpick this video as much you are doing, I think I could write a whole book

  • @virioguidostipa5681
    @virioguidostipa5681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Very good job! The Divine Comedy is the book I studied the most in my life, for over 20 years every day, it is extremely complicated, and it is not easy to find a summary as well done as yours in English.
    There are some minor imprecisions though, let's name just a few:
    - Minos circles his tail around himself, not around the soul of the damned, in order to indicate where the convicted has to be incarcerated.
    - Pier delle Vigne, among suicides, is not a Florentine, he was from Capua (Naples) and was accused of having betrayed Frederick the Second Emperor, probably the most influential political figure of all Middle Ages.
    - Ulysses is burning together with Diomedes.
    - In Purgatory, among choleric souls, Dante speaks to the Venetian Marco Lombardo, pretty interesting, and in the sloth terrace to Gherardo II, abbot of San Zeno, who blames the costume of nepotism.
    - Virgil cannot, but Statius provides the solution to the riddle of how a soul can starve, and it is one of the most delusional and magnificent passages of the whole book.
    - A deeper respect for the figure of Beatrice is due, I am sorry.
    Ok, I do not want to be too pedantic. Thank you for the excellent piece.

    • @virioguidostipa5681
      @virioguidostipa5681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well, I am not a professional, by any mean; it is just my hobby. Professionals are called "Dantists", they are philologists and mostly work in Universities; I just want to have fun and I focus only on the topics I am interested in. Of course, after so much time, I accumulated certain knowledge. I know it could appear a nerdy waste of time, but on the other hand, I do not play videogames, for example, and I know nothing about sports. I just happen to like history and old Italian. It is a great book, and it is translated very well in English, give it a try, but I warn you, it is pretty addictive.

    • @virioguidostipa5681
      @virioguidostipa5681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ah, no, no, not at all! I was just giving an explanation because I know that it may sound bizarre. And even if I did not know about that joke on The Onion I considered your comment really funny.
      I am happy to know you read the entire book, it is old and detached from our way of understanding reality, that's also why accuracy and time are much needed to get somewhere. Dante was a visionary, I still struggle to picture how one man alone could imagine as many things as he did.

    • @virioguidostipa5681
      @virioguidostipa5681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks man! JRR Tolkien is great! And as soon as possible I will check your suggestion.

    • @CheekyCynic
      @CheekyCynic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      These are the TH-cam comments I long for.

    • @garythesnail6177
      @garythesnail6177 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CheekyCynic agreed.

  • @ymirishere7108
    @ymirishere7108 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    28:10 Ethiopians actually have had a strong Christian tradition for centuries that evolved separately from European Christianity. They even tried to leverage it against European colonizers when they began to carve up Africa. Also, they have really cool churches that have been entirely cut from stone.

    • @dragongirl7978
      @dragongirl7978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's possible Dante didn't recognize them bc they were Orthodox. I mean, his beloved Crusades sacked the Orthodox Christian city of Constantinople, so...

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Now I can stop nagging myself to read Dante. This was masterful, you laid it all out and it was as if I had a private tutor. Thanks heaps.

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    Hell for me would be being forced to watch Ricegum for eternity

    • @napalmblaziken
      @napalmblaziken 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My Hell is being forced to watch Rob Schneider movies on an endless loop.

    • @xjing800
      @xjing800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      my hell is reading comment sections

    • @zenvanden991
      @zenvanden991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah

    • @omegaproductions6667
      @omegaproductions6667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      >implying that isn't already hell

    • @thomasturner6980
      @thomasturner6980 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexandrine1558, the Asian part of it anyway

  • @margraveofgadsden8997
    @margraveofgadsden8997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    28:12 actually, Ethiopia is a predominantly Christian nation and was one of the first countries to adopt Christianity.

    • @Palladiosios
      @Palladiosios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      In The Greco-Latin world "Ethiopians" means "black faced", basically African

    • @uberfeel
      @uberfeel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Palladiosios weren't they called ifrikan's during the roman times?

    • @Palladiosios
      @Palladiosios 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@uberfeel maybe by the Romans but not by the Greeks. Also, Africa was called Libya back then

    • @uberfeel
      @uberfeel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Palladiosios yes, but when rome conquered north africa they even meet some black african which they called them ifrikkan. Africa name came from irrikkan.

    • @shoaibakther1453
      @shoaibakther1453 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ethiopians were Christians long before all European countries became Christian

  • @Tusskie
    @Tusskie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Tetris is purgatory confirmed
    EDIT:The effort you put into the costumes just shows commitment

  • @a.h.tvideomapping4293
    @a.h.tvideomapping4293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    Brutus: “I will be remembered along with my friend Cassius as the last of the virtuous Romans”
    Dante: puts both Cassius and Brutus in the centre most place of hell while Satan chews on them for eternity

    • @hazyorange
      @hazyorange 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why aren't the other traitors who stabbed him also be included in there?

    • @ash_11117
      @ash_11117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Why did Dante like Julius Caesar so much? He even made him have a throne in limbo.

    • @hazyorange
      @hazyorange 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ash_11117 Isn't he also a general like Alexander? He would've been diving in the Phlegethon.

    • @ash_11117
      @ash_11117 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hazyorange exactly

    • @mickythesailor6870
      @mickythesailor6870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@hazyorange Dante didn’t like the Greeks, that’s why most Greek heroes and symbols are placed in hell

  • @DanyIsDeadChannel313
    @DanyIsDeadChannel313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    --50---shades--of--gray nope
    37 layer of Dante comedy yes

    • @kyleking3087
      @kyleking3087 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dante's inferno is to Christianity what 50 shades of gray is to twilight

  • @eusacck4075
    @eusacck4075 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Anybody else notice that when he started talking about purgatory the music in the background was just the Tetris theme

    • @maliivan1993
      @maliivan1993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always get this weird feeling when I hear somebody put "Kalinka" as background music for a video but then remember it's just "The Tetris theme" to most people...

  • @MelancholyCrypto
    @MelancholyCrypto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I love your sense of humor, and quick but insightful story telling. It's content just ripe for consuming.

  • @sadcat3602
    @sadcat3602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Knowing Better: The River Styx is probably the only river from Greek mythology you know
    Me who's favorite book is House of Hades: I possess a knowledge greater than most

    • @arcadius7614
      @arcadius7614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah basically

    • @Yixdy
      @Yixdy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh god, I loved Percy Jackson, but fuck me are Rick's books painfully inaccurate

    • @tamikras9927
      @tamikras9927 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Yixdy are they?

    • @Yixdy
      @Yixdy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tamikras9927 very much so, but I can understand why, being that it's a work of fiction based on ancient fiction. So it's only inaccurate in comparison to it's fictional source material

  • @emrazum
    @emrazum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is a MASTERPIECE!! I especially loved all the little jokes and asides. You've blown me away

    • @makse10
      @makse10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree.

  • @Tabby3456
    @Tabby3456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Ferret *gets picked up*
    KB: Dis is a ferret
    Ferret: ...hes on drugs again... -_-

  • @AgeingBoyPsychic
    @AgeingBoyPsychic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Your unwavering no nonsense delivery of dialogue paired with your unique aesthetic decisions is why I love you ❤️ It's always a surprise, always hilarious and this jarring juxtaposition makes you incredibly sympathetic, likeable and interesting.
    I love it when really smart people have a sense of humour about themselves, it comes across way less preachy

  • @Mark-yb1sp
    @Mark-yb1sp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have learned more about my faith in God and His handiwork on earth from “ Knowing Better” than any other videos. Thank you.

  • @JoystickJunkieXD
    @JoystickJunkieXD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    hold up is that the tetris theme song played in piano in the background
    @ 20:11

    • @cheekybum1513
      @cheekybum1513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      RETROFUTURISM wow, good catch

    • @kittycatcaoimhe
      @kittycatcaoimhe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm pretty sure it's a harp?

    • @JoystickJunkieXD
      @JoystickJunkieXD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kittycatcaoimhe I'm not good with my instruments oops

    • @maxhydekyle2425
      @maxhydekyle2425 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If so it's blindingly perfect

    • @teddywolfes1042
      @teddywolfes1042 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep. Totally the Tetris theme.

  • @plasticbutler
    @plasticbutler 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Did Dante ever say to Beatrice:
    I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIGHT!!!!

    • @mthsdcs
      @mthsdcs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      After he sang a song he wrote for her with an electric guitar that shoots lightning bats and turns into a scythe

  • @rbarghouti
    @rbarghouti 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you! I'm glad you are teaching that "Immaculate Conception" isn't the same as the "Virgin Birth". I think that people's confusion over these two dogmas leads to other significant difficulties in understanding by so many people. It's frustrating, since when people are told about this, they sometimes think their faith is being challenged, rather than simply a nuance of dogma being addressed.

  • @stacie1595
    @stacie1595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I literally had to read this book over the summer before my freshman year of high school! When my teacher told me it was a college level book on the first day of class, I literally wanted to riot!
    As an adult, I'm actually thankful I read it because now I... know better 😉

    • @coopergates9680
      @coopergates9680 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What other books has someone at school rated higher level than they should be?

  • @dnceprtymusica
    @dnceprtymusica 5 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    "Is there an acceptable decibell level or something"
    *D E A D* 😂

  • @eddiejc1
    @eddiejc1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    One thing I should point out. Dante did NOT write this book in Italian. At this point, Latin had broken up into differing dialects that were spoken throughout Italy, and the Divine Comedy was written in the Florentine dialect. He did so in order that people in Florence who didn't know Latin could read his work. However, the poem was so popular that it was copied and spread throughout the Italian peninsula and people far from Florence learned this dialect to read this work. When Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, the language he was writing wasn't Italian, but as a result of him, it BECAME Italian. That's why Italians call Dante the "father of the Italian language."

  • @TheBigRedskull
    @TheBigRedskull 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Knowing Better has 4 P’s. What four sins do y’all think he must still defeat in Purgatory?

    • @pahbody5336
      @pahbody5336 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Lust Lust Lust and Sloth

    • @SomeBritishGal1
      @SomeBritishGal1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sloth, Greed, Gluttony and Lust probably.

    • @iisgray
      @iisgray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I suspect Wrath, Lust, Gluttony, and Pride.
      I think we all agree on Lust.
      I bet, like most people he regrets some past short temperedness and present ill-patience. Wrath.
      I bet he feels he may, or may have in the past, consumed too much alcohol and food.
      Anyone who thinks their opinions or research are worth putting on youtube for other people to watch and listen to have some level of pride. I'm sure he's cognizant of that.

    • @jacobchurchwardtruered116
      @jacobchurchwardtruered116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why is everyone with lust?

    • @iisgray
      @iisgray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because I suspect most people have that one

  • @jrfree88
    @jrfree88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m halfway through this video and I’ve been listening via a Bluetooth headset. I had a good laugh out loud when i opened up TH-cam to see knowing better masked as satan. You’re a good man.

  • @bighiu-tofanchris717
    @bighiu-tofanchris717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Tomorrow i have test paper from this poem. I cannot believe it. You posted this after some minutes I read some things about The Divine Comedy. Is faith. I am in shook.

    • @hengistcz1940
      @hengistcz1940 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trust me it all sucks and its useless. I use about 10% of what I learned in school in my life and I find only about 40% you learn useful. XD For examply I cant write without typos and serious grammar mistakes, but I know how to pick sentece apart and say what is verb what that verb ties to etc.. or what is aposiopeze in language etc... Of course in my native longuege not english.

    • @bighiu-tofanchris717
      @bighiu-tofanchris717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hengistcz1940 Well is up to you to use the information or not. I am passioned about religion so was a plesure to learn all of this.

    • @hengistcz1940
      @hengistcz1940 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bighiu-tofanchris717 Most of it is garbage. :) You learn those things just to have your childhood destroyed and then when you are older and you could change something you cant because now you have to work.

  • @devbhadauria2506
    @devbhadauria2506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I recently stumbled upon your channel and have been watching all of your videos. Good stuff 👍

  • @BriggsSeekins
    @BriggsSeekins 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    That's kind of a stretch to say it's entirely possible Dante inspired Martin Luther. Disgust with the Church's hypocrisy was well established and often recorded prior to Dante. John Wycliffe was likely a much bigger influence on Martin Luther than Dante.

    • @msxavier8519
      @msxavier8519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, you're pretty much right. The hussites already rebelled for this same reason some 70 years before the reform.

  • @razielryuki8703
    @razielryuki8703 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love your subtle references to classic videos across time on TH-cam.
    "Dang, that is a sweet Earth you might say...."

  • @TheMissingLink2
    @TheMissingLink2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    Riley Reid is the fallen angel of chastity. 😏

    • @arjuna207
      @arjuna207 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The Missing Link Riley Reid, connecting people across religions

    • @partlycurrent
      @partlycurrent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I read your replay first at the beginning of the video and was SHOCKED when I saw her later in the pictures :D

    • @rubenguerreiro9382
      @rubenguerreiro9382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I dont get it...

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She's yummy

    • @adfaklsdjf
      @adfaklsdjf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@rubenguerreiro9382 Beatrice becoming more angelic at 25:05 is an adult actress who goes by the name Riley Reid. Easter egg, I guess?

  • @richbarr5959
    @richbarr5959 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Just mentioning "Inferno" by Larry Niven and Jerry Jerry Pournelle, a sci-fi take on Dante.

    • @jymbo1969
      @jymbo1969 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gotta love Benny.

  • @GodzillaFreak
    @GodzillaFreak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Purgatory in "The Seven Deadly Sins" feels more like Hell than the blank version.

    • @Vulgy44
      @Vulgy44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      GodzillaFreak the truest theme of purging yourself of sin

  • @Jesthor
    @Jesthor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:50 I am now imagining CGP guiding you through hell, the way the quartermaster explained piracy in his recent video.

  • @lovestarlightgiver2402
    @lovestarlightgiver2402 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Adam and Eve: Goes against God and brings sin and death to all of humanity and the world, but ends up in Heaven.
    Satan: Goes against God and only convinced one third of angels to follow him (33%), ends up frozen in the darkest and coldest part of hell.

    • @dianematlock7922
      @dianematlock7922 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Antartica ???

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well, Adam and Eve didn't know the difference between good and evil before eating the fruit...though that just raises the question of how a being of infinite justice can see it right to punnish a couple of humans with the ethical understanding of infants (along with all of their descendents, who did nothing wrong) for eating something he put right in the middle of what amounts to their playpen.
      Oh, and need I mention that Yahweh is omniscient, so would have known that they would eat from the tree.
      The divine comedy still makes more sense ethically than the book is was based on.

    • @succubastard1019
      @succubastard1019 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      "It really do be like that sometime"
      _-Saint Bernard_

    • @skwills1629
      @skwills1629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dynamicworlds1 No, it doesnt raise those questions. Good and Evil are not synonyms for Right and Wrong, and they did know what they did was wrong. And they weren't babies. THe idea that the Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And evil made them have general knowledge is not really supportable.
      Also, didn't the Early Church, and the Rabbis for that matter, view the whole thing as Allegorical?
      Origen, who was quiet influential in Medieval Theology, wrote in the 2nd Century AD that this is a shadow of a Spiritual event. The coats of flesh Adam and Eve got from God? Those are the physical bodies we now have. The whole Eden thing was set in a Spirit World we can't really understand now and is set in an allegorical fashion.

    • @skwills1629
      @skwills1629 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The difference, in terms of Classical Christianity like Dante, is Adam repented and Satan did not.
      Besides, Adam didn't go to Heaven till after the Harrowing Of Hell, so he went to Hell first.
      With that said, many Christians, and Jews generally, see Satan as less God's adversary, and more as God's prosecuting attorney here to make sure we Truly Love God. Its less that he's Evil and more than tempting us is his job.

  • @juzao1000
    @juzao1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Ok that was one of the coolest videos I've ever seen

    • @hamluk_
      @hamluk_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@workin4alivin585 dude, sorry someone in 2019 might make some errors regarding a text from 1320. pft.

  • @T2G-DJT
    @T2G-DJT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Wood of the suicides?
    Don’t know if I should make a Logan Paul or a Mortal Kombat reference 🤔

    • @officialJoCa
      @officialJoCa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *_i know right? my anus is so wet right now._*

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      bowl4two extremely tmi lol

    • @T2G-DJT
      @T2G-DJT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ameha K
      It’s actually not enough

    • @jamaldavis831
      @jamaldavis831 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do both

    • @MaladyKayjo
      @MaladyKayjo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Surp Nurp both

  • @levongevorgyan6789
    @levongevorgyan6789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Honestly Dante's Heaven is way more interesting then his Hell. I'd like a movie about that: journeying through space, seeing historical and mythical figures. Sounds awesome.

  • @skittlebags77
    @skittlebags77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    My inner 10 year old on Albinoblacksheep told me to let you know he appreciated that End of Ze World reference.

    • @hotshot590
      @hotshot590 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m so freakin’ glad people still remember that. TH-cam classic 👌🏽

    • @skittlebags77
      @skittlebags77 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @_ _ is this a jo jo reference?

  • @manidavis4126
    @manidavis4126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    13:13 he was talking about Mohammed: The prophet of Islam.

    • @zanizone3617
      @zanizone3617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Yep. The thing is in Dante's time Mohammed was believed to have been a Christian bishop that at some point became heretic, founding Islam. In the medieval view it wasn't a separate religion, but an heretic offshoot of Christianity. That's why he put him there.

    • @m3rl1on
      @m3rl1on 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@zanizone3617 wow thats new to me lol interesting

    • @zanizone3617
      @zanizone3617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@m3rl1on If one thinks about it, it sort of makes sense. The centuries before and around the founding of Islam were full of heresies coming from schismatic churches/patriarchs in the Orient (nestorianism, arianism, monophysitism, you name it). Given the general murkiness around those matters, it is not surprising that they thought it was the same deal with Mohammed.

    • @crashbandicoot5470
      @crashbandicoot5470 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s what I thought too but Muhammad never had a surviving son, only daughters survived.

    • @noviedeos
      @noviedeos 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crash Bandicoot
      Ali was his nephew iirc
      if not, then his cousin

  • @WillZ0111
    @WillZ0111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Notification SQUAAAAAD
    (Edit) this video was awesome, especially the costumes (which mustv'e taken a long time, most of which satan.). No matter how long the video, I never loose intrest while watching. Thank you for continuing to make great content!

  • @theKRB93
    @theKRB93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I'm pretty late to this party, but: how do you not have at least a million subscribers? Your content is original, well thought out and delivered, and features surprise ferrets. You've certainly gained a new subscriber here, keep it up!

    •  ปีที่แล้ว

      X2. Ferrets did it for me (kidding)

  • @auntieiqwerty
    @auntieiqwerty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Ethiopia knew about Christianity long before most of Europe did. Currently over half is Christian( most Ethiopian Orthodox).
    From Wikipedia: According to its tradition, the Coptic Church was established by Saint Mark, an apostle and evangelist, during the middle of the 1st century (c. AD 42).

    • @q345ify
      @q345ify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yeah but at that point in time Ethiopia had been almost completely cut off from the rest of the Christian world for nearly 600 years so they had no knowledge of weather or not the people in Ethiopia still knew of Christ at the time and this uncertainty about the status of places like Ethiopia and the Assyrian Church in Iraq but hope of their continued existence ultimately led to the Prestor John legend so the interpretation largely holds (also Europeans tended to refer to all of sub-saharan Africa as Ethiopia including non-Christian and even undiscovered areas so again largely holds)

    • @mikeyjoe419
      @mikeyjoe419 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you, he got a lot of details wrong in this one.

    • @missfashionator
      @missfashionator 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikeyjoe419 Like what?

    • @mikeyjoe419
      @mikeyjoe419 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@missfashionator For one he says that Mary is the only person to be born without sin, which is untrue because Jesus was also born without sin. He also says that Dante thought the earth was "the center of the universe instead of the Sun" which implies that the Sun is the center of the universe. It's only the center of the solar system, not even the galaxy, let alone the entire universe.

    • @missfashionator
      @missfashionator 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikeyjoe419 Thank you!

  • @isaacwiles2616
    @isaacwiles2616 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    23:23 “Is there an acceptable decibel level?” IM CRYING

    • @Faisaldegrt
      @Faisaldegrt 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Anton Gonzalez it's marriage

  • @eckmann88
    @eckmann88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastically well done. So many people disregard Purgatorio and Paradiso, which are such beautiful works.

  • @biscuit4638
    @biscuit4638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    this entire time I was thinking about someone just speedrunning from the circles of hell to the layers of heaven, doing tasks and running through punishments

    • @MsGbergh
      @MsGbergh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your idea is as valid as Dante'a.

  • @doggedout
    @doggedout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Been a long time since I read it but Niven and Pournelle wrote a take on Dante with "Inferno". Mussolini is the guide. Pretty funny stuff.
    Great video!

  • @hallofo8107
    @hallofo8107 5 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    "Dis is the city of Hell. Dis is a ferret. Dis is TWO ferrets"

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    2:39 - Demon from the *Nerd City?* What're you doing here?! :O

    • @oanaalexia
      @oanaalexia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LMAO really? I liked your comment before watching the scene and was looking in the description to see the credits. Then I reach the moment, I'm crying with laughter. Genius make-up... 😂😂😂

    • @thedoruk6324
      @thedoruk6324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@oanaalexia He's working on several jobs, even demons've to make the ends meat :^)

  • @DJspuppet
    @DJspuppet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    DAMN YOU! It took me ages to identify the harp cover of the Tetris theme playing in the background during the Purgatorio.

  • @LejunglerenardThejunglefox
    @LejunglerenardThejunglefox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    23:35 That was an excellently placed plug-in.

  • @theDENIMMAN
    @theDENIMMAN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    So you only have 4 P's so that means you admit to being guilty of 4 of 7 deadly sins right?

    • @OttoGraff-fu8pj
      @OttoGraff-fu8pj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He’s been through the first 3 Terraces, duh

    • @superbeltman6197
      @superbeltman6197 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      where did you get 7 deadly sins from

    • @djkaibaxter419
      @djkaibaxter419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      When he says the 7 P's represent the 7 deadly sins

  • @alwolpert8216
    @alwolpert8216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have great comedic timing, both with your schpiel and your razor sharp sound effects.

  • @sarahmiller4734
    @sarahmiller4734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cannot stop watching these videos.
    The sheer effort that goes into the research, production and characters is astounding.
    The costumes in this one had me laughing so much.
    Bloody brilliant!

  • @cruzb.2340
    @cruzb.2340 5 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    This video: exists
    Me, an italian: *heavy breath*

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm Argentinian, so, we are kinda related

    • @akai4942
      @akai4942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pablo_giustiniani unless you have italian grandfather and speak italian , then you're not.
      At least speak italian

    • @Iapetus7849
      @Iapetus7849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@akai4942 well, he has a very italian surname soo...

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@akai4942 I speak Italian, kinda
      Also my family has some Italian traditions, we eat pasta every Sunday
      My great grandparents were from Venice too

    • @elijah2278
      @elijah2278 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

  • @LynxenX
    @LynxenX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Absolute meme powerhouse coming in with the END OF ZE WORLD reference.

    • @AGGSab
      @AGGSab 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paul Murphy lol

  • @compassionatetraveler8625
    @compassionatetraveler8625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    ME: ( gets shot in the heart with a bullet)
    GOD: you done YE your last HAW partner

  • @wuzzle22
    @wuzzle22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Everyone: Halo references!
    Me: Is no one going to mention that subtle reference to Hbomberguy at 8:55?

    • @pedrosigwald
      @pedrosigwald 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was actually going through the comments to see if anyone else had seen it.

    • @yoavsnake
      @yoavsnake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +

    • @zacharytucker1359
      @zacharytucker1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I long for the day when Kevin is hated by all.