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Sounds like a scary movie.

I was surprised to read of Buddhist Hell, (Naraka) and it sounds bad. Lots of hot and cold levels for torture.

I read dating the idea of hell within Buddhist tradition proves to be difficult, since ideas were orally transmitted until about 100 BCE when the Pali canon (their scriptures) was written down in Ceylon.

The eight hot naraka appear in Jātaka texts and form the basis of the hell system in Mahayana Buddhism. According to them, the hells are located deep under the southern continent of Jambudvīpa, denoting India.

So Buddhist hell is under India. That to me struck me as kind of funny.

Hell is below India. Wonder how the people of India feel about that idea.

Christian hell, the ‘underworld’ is believed to be below the ground, or as some believe, the center of the Earth. I always thought that interesting, it’s smaller down there, I would think would be pretty crowded, everyone who ever existed if they are to go to hell go to a smaller place than the surface of the earth.

Considering how many civilizations had a belief in hell, in all the different forms they come up with, it does not appear to be a deterent to bad behavior.

Laz's AI version of hell:

Christian hell, the ‘underworld’ is believed to be below the ground, or as some believe, the center of the Earth. I always thought that interesting, it’s smaller down there, I would think would be pretty crowded, everyone who ever existed if they are to go to hell go to a smaller place than the surface of the earth. There is sufficient room.

Unlike most of the earth's surface where people live mostly in two dimensions, Hell could use all of the space available. I had a calculation made of how many 6' 200 pounders could fit in the core. They are already dead, so breathing is not an issue, and we don't care about comfort. (This is also not really being able to understand what the nature of a post-death soul would take up in space.)

1 cubic mile = 147,197,952,000 cubic feet.
Therefore, 163 billion cubic miles × 147,197,952,000 = 2.4 × 10²² cubic feet.
Divide this by 2.5 cubic feet per person → ≈ 9.6 × 10²¹ human bodies.

So, approximately 9.6 sextillion
(9,600,000,000,000,000,000,000) average‑sized humans could theoretically fit inside Earth’s core.