From here, via a hotel-style service elevator, they will ascend to bliss or, as seems increasingly likely, descend to unending torment.
For Microsoft, accustomed to a gross profit margin of 85% on its most popular wares, the experience in China has been an unending torment.
The primary purpose of such unending torment, according to Augustine, is not correction, or deterrence, or even the protection of the innocent; nor did he make any claim for it except that it is fully deserved and therefore just.
So why, one may wonder at this point, do the Augustinians believe that anyone whether it be Judas Iscariot, Saul of Tarsus, or Adolph Hitler actually deserves unending torment as a just recompense for their sins?
For if totalitarian theocracy be without hope, Then all of Islamdom shall hang by self-rope; ──Or, a cursed wasteland of conflagration Of only poison──flies──and scorching breath Foretells our future in a world Damned to unending torment and death.
Hers was a life spent under unending torment, beginning with acts of sexual abuse inflicted by her brother and ending a short 54-years later when she jumped out of her apartment window, an act that she would foreshadow directly in her writing years before.
