Dante's Inferno Part I: Entering the Woods

[RAZORrulz12]

@FunkyPajamaMan its a poem type book written in around 1300. Since u know the game im pretty sure u know bout the 9 circles in it. Its as scary as.... Hell lol

[kolumb21]

excellent

[emmthreejonny]

Very well done.

[zombietronn]

You don't have to believe in God to enjoy this so stop babbling on about him in the comments. Take the time instead to appreciate the music, artwork, and think of the wonderful story telling.

[Gobloreclan]

This is beautiful! Great work

[zerovibritania1]

The book is very very deep. It is in a way depressing.

[SuorCappuccetto]

Mirabile opera del giovane poeta fiorentino

[optickevlar]

amazing this is like the tenth time ive listened to it i remember before the vid game came out i could find this video easily but now it was nearly impossible to.

[Thetop10guy1]

legit ass music dude

[Ciberboy56]

one day a teacher told his students that God is evil.

he said that God created everything even the evil stuf

then a student of his askked the teacher that if he knows what is darknes

and the teacher answered that darnkes donsent exist darknes is teh the ausence of light. then the student told the teacher that evil dosent exist is the aucense of GOD

[deathbloom97]

I read the book for a project, but then when i was done they tolled me i had to do a bio on dante not a book report. almost yelled at teacher

[StopDroolinLadies]

Where can I find the movie?

[kapateze]

what the hell can you say its evil and its good? life isnt black and white. Its very very grey. You cant define a persons life by balancing the good and evil he did. its very nice belieaving in heaven when you cant face the fact were just gonna rot in the ground.

hey i dont mind! FEED THE WORMS the poor guys gotta eat too.

[binarynightmare]

@TheUnidentifed

Gods above! I thought I was finished with this. If it takes chaos, war, famine, death to bring people together, then there is something twisted in His logic.

Take a large scale disaster for instance: It kills thousands, and when people do come together, they become tribal gangs, wherein only the strongest, most cunning survive, and the weak are killed in pillaging, etc.

Barabrism is the natural state of humanity, and in the instrance of disaster, this is the only truth.

[SweetPicklesRob]

Amazingly this comment section has taken literature's first piece of fan fiction and become an inane theological discussion.

[GreenwooddPop]

Who wrote this music?

[WannaBeComposer]

Me me me!  I did! :)

[Tristan129]

I have a weird feeling this whole Divine Comedy is just a self-inserting Fanfic. Just like Faust.

[TenbatsuZero]

@Tristan129 Yes, it was Dante's political satire. Not a map of the afterlife as many have taken it to be.

[ilovecullenboys]

our english teacher showed your series to us recently and we had to watch it twice!

very beautiful!

[WannaBeComposer]

Very cool! Hope you enjoyed it!

[talo757]

If we are on our way to God, may the LORD keep us there, if we are not on our way to God, may the LORD put us there.

-

[binarynightmare]

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. A pox upon thee, servant of thine misguided wretch!

But seriously, this is awesome music.

And you, talo757, be gone with your propaganda!

[talo757]

Why are you so offendedby me speaking good thing about my living God that loves all things?

I don't hold it against you because it is written:

Sinners are offended by the truth.

Jesus tought us: Love thy neighbour as thyself.

If you reject such a man you indeed evil.

[binarynightmare]

I do love the way you try to force your cult upon all of us so-called 'non-believers'. I am not offended. I am sickened.

Do try and keep your religious beliefs to yourself. I am, what you people would call, a heretic. I have my own beliefs.

I came here to voice my opinion, whilst you force yours on others.

[talo757]

I tellyou the truth

God is Love but everyone will surley be judged

after this life for every choise made, either Good or Bad. Contemplate the seconds before you death, you don't wanna die an anti-Christ. Do you now know that Jesus will judge us all?

[binarynightmare]

Oh, I am quite sure of that.

And did you know that Islam says the exact same thing, hmm?

I will die with my alliegances to everything that renounces the sacred; the holy and molestes all that is beautiful.

But please, let us put our differences aside so as to not ruin this video's reputation. It is, after all, a brilliant piece of music.

[WannaBeComposer]

::blush:: :-)

[TenbatsuZero]

@WannaBeComposer Beautiful piece. =)

[talo757]

No mrNightmare, Jesus and Islam are two different Gods. Here is a reminder:

The man we know as Jesus wasw crucified for CLAIMING TO GOD, the Creatorof the Universe!!!

I tell you the Truth;

He was not Lying and plus his grave was empty 3 days after his death. Quincidense?

[binarynightmare]

Coincedence...or fiction?

I'm sure Jesus was a very nice man in life; I have nothing against him. But his cult is another story. A 2000 year old L. Ron Hubbard.

He had charisma - a staple of all cult leaders. Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey - they were all charismatic people with powerful personalities.

Anyway, Catholicism and Protestantism are more falsified versions of Christianity - Orthodox churches are far closer to the actual concept.

[talo757]

You're partly right, orthodox Christ. is righteus.

I tell you the Truth again here;

After we die, there is either a wonderful place or a terrible place.

The choice is to be made here in this life of Knowledge of Good and Evil, my lost soul of a friend.

[binarynightmare]

And what of Purgatory? Limbo?

It may surprise you I was once a devout Catholic. But after I was given one too many 'tests of faith', my belief in a loving God who cares for all his creations was destroyed and I saw the world for what it really is. Just look outside--we ARE in Hell. There is wrath, gluttony, lust, heresy, treachery, greed, fraud and violence all around us. The people commiting these 'sins' band together. Just like the circles.

And one can reign in Hell with the proper strategy.

[talo757]

I to have been tested but it is good.

Overcoming hardships is supposed to make you stronger. And no again;

Hell was not created for reigning in and sinning but for eternal punishment by fire.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

I understand tests of faith, but I don't find it ethical. Wouldn't it simply be easier to show yourself to your followers? To let them know, with their very eyes and minds, in the flesh, that you exist, instead of cryptical messages and tests of faith? Surely God must know that one too many years of hardship, one too many disasters, will break a person?

[talo757]

I know what you mean, life surley has its ups and downs. But the Love of Christ conquers all. Seek the omnipresence of God.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

The writer Charles Williams once said the universe was capable of worse tricks than we can suppose. I am still confounded as to why certain things continue to exist.

Take a black hole. It is the most destructive force in the universe; a jet darkness from nothing escapes.

And what of Haiti? What of the terrible state many parts of Africa are in? Many Africans are Christian. Why does God still allow famine, civil war and black magic to be practiced amongst his loyal followers?

[talo757]

The Universe is constantly expanding, maybe the black holes sort of keeps it in balance?

Revelation 21:4

Life surley has a lot of promises in the Bible Life.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

Well, life seems futile, as at the end, most of us will be damned for eternity by God for worshipping something we cannot possibly comprehend; i.e, the beast from the ocean and the Dragon. Who are we to know what will happen at the end? Remember, Revelations was a dream from John. Dreams are always distorted.

[talo757]

This is the Truth;

There is only 1 God and Christ is his Son.

[binarynightmare]

Hmm, not much of an argument there.

Another question: if there is only one Truth, then why does so many millions of others not see it? Why hasn't God revealed himself as the only one to be worshipped? Why remain aloof when there are so many possible converts and so many who disavow your name? Why doesn't God come down, int he flesh, for all to see, and show his true power and divinty all over the world and abolish all the other religions?

[talo757]

How can a man find God without seeking him diligently first?

If I don't call you by your name you will not turn your face to me or answer me.

Whosoever calls upon the name of Yhvh

shall be saved.

Advice of the day:

Look up to the sky and call on God to save you.

[binarynightmare]

Why should a man have to seek God? Why can't God come and say 'Her I am. I am God. I created you all and here's how I did it'. Let everybody know he's real. Stop wasting century upon century using cryptic messages to relay your testament. They can both live in harmony and love with each other. Sin can be abandoned. But for some reason, God sits and watches.

I had called upon God for guidance and safety so many times. I did everything the Commandments told me to for so long.

And I got nothing.

[talo757]

First of all, God is already telling you that he is there and that he and his son are God, in the Bible<-- a peronal letter from God to each of us who wants him.

Heb 11:6

I tell you the truth, if you fulfill the meaning of our lives and find God, you will not get nothing but you will ressurect from death in Eternal Life, supersupernaturally.

Why do you think so Christians say;

I Love Jesus! or Jesus Loves you ?

[binarynightmare]

But God is not directly, literrally telling us He is there. The only way I'm going to believe is if I see Him performing miracles, or descending to Earth upon a whitle cloud of flame. I want tangible, physical (as physical as a meta-physical entity can be) proof from the very source. God is not indescribable or unseeable. He made us in his own image, after all.

[talo757]

Faith is not based on Proof but on Hope and Faith.

But my faith has grown into knowledge now. I both speak and hear from God, even in dreams.

Why don't you pray for a dream for the sake of your faith?

[binarynightmare]

I dream different dreams. My respite from the world.

I do know the basics of faith, but it has overgrown its boundaries to become ridiculous. More and more people leave the church everyday because their faith is destroyed by an entity who denies them proof of love, who just lets their families die, their lives worsen and continues to let destruction reign down upon His creation when he could easly stop it and show us his love, instead of letting killers, rapists and dictators roam free.

[talo757]

Hold on a second, God is not responsible for any evil on this world.

You must seek and ask God to come into your life.

Asketh ye not, ye recieveth not.

Prayer is the only chance for ''proof''

[binarynightmare]

Perhaps not, but you don't see God doing anything to help or save any his beloved creations. He lets them suffer.

You could argue that there must be a balance of good and evil for everything to work properly, but that really doesn't make sense, because the Bible preaches tht God loves each and every one of us. Disasters, serial killings and innumerable crimes happen every day. God never helps. He never helped me and He never helped anyone I know.

[binarynightmare]

I asked God so many times for guidance, and I was left in the dark. I prayed and prayed and prayed, and the people I loved siffered and died. I asked, pleaded, begged even, and I recived naught.

[talo757]

The LORD works in mysterious ways, but in him who created the light, there is no darkness at all. I am sure God wants you in heaven to.

You could find God right now, but without faith, it is impossible to please God.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

Darkness was there first.

I'm sure he does, but blind faith will only get people so far.

And 'working in mysterious ways' seems to be just a way of explaining something away you can't believe a loving God would do.

Evidently, this going nowhere, with neither of us stepping down. It is annoying people, as evidence by way of SweetPicklesRob and I'm sure WannaBeComposer never meant for this to happen, so if you would like to continue this discussion by mail, I would only be too happy.

[Ciberboy56]

@talo757 one day a teacher told his students that God is evil.

he said that God created everything even the evil stuf

then a student of his askked the teacher that if he knows what is darknes

and the teacher answered that darnkes donsent exist darknes is teh the ausence of light. then the student told the teacher that evil dosent exist is the aucense of GOD

[talo757]

@Ciberboy56 Jesus was sinless, like father, like son

[ieatshitsticks]

@talo757 to bad gods fake lol

[talo757]

There is only one God, and Christ is his son. Amen.

[talo757]

*Reign in hell? No, there will be no reigning in hell.

As a matter of fact;

Jesus revealed the location of Hell;

down, down to the heart of the earth there is an unquenchable fire.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

If this must continue, so be it.

Deep down in the heart of the Earth is the mantle and then core of the planet. Were this fire to be quenched, it would have catastrophic consequences.

Jesus was no geologist.

[talo757]

Hell was created by an unimaginably pure diety for the destruction and punishment of crime or evil.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

So then, why does Satan, the ultimate darkness, rule over it and the damned? According to innumerable accounts of possession and even sightings, he isn't trapped there, either. He can freely move about Hell and Earth, and according to certain texts, Heaven; as a shadow. Satan was the most beautiful Angel, Lucifer Morning Star, after all.

[talo757]

But were did the beauty of Lucifer (before the rebellion) come frome if not from the Creator? Even so its intelligence and also freewill. Give glory to the one who gave it and specielly created it.

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

Why did God allow Lucifer to rebel and cause war in Heaven? Free will, the breeder of discontent and revolutionaries. It is why mankind is in essence, evil, born with Original Sin from Adam and Eve. And of course, what of Lilith, Adam's first wife? She abandoned him for Satan when he refused to let be on top during sex.

Equality, sadly, is not a staple of Christianity.

It seems to me that God is indifferent, that we are far too removed in our sin from him.

We have been abandoned.

[talo757]

God is not distant and angry, but he yearns for a deep communication with each of us.

Personally I can tell by the stars he made that God is a God of Pure Love.

Proverbs 15:3

[binarynightmare]

@talo757

Maybe so, but then it is then humanity that is distant and angry. The message that Jesus did spread back then has been warped and manipulated. Not necessarily by people, but by time; such as word of mouth gone wrong. To me, it's all futile.

Evil has always outbalanced good. All the major accounts of history are wars, genocides, serial killers, mad cults and terrible dictators. It is in human nature to be drawn to evil. Mankind is, in essence, amoral. Not evil or good. But indifferent.

[anilm2010]

Wonderful work! Great Job :)!

[TheLapisMoon]

We're reading this in my English class and out teacher showed this to us to help us understand it better. It's beautiful

[WannaBeComposer]

Hey thanks!  This comment made my day! :)

[Riccardo250]

very good job congratulations!

[EccoLima]

Listen to Franz Liszt's "Dante Symphony". I've never hear such pain and sufering.

[thatoneguyjjm]

whats the song called

[WannaBeComposer]

"Entering the Woods"

[Joskun]

Wow that was truly amazing!

Thank you for posting this :D

[PR1M3VAL]

Really good! I'm also making an album based off of Dante's Inferno. Loosely based, but still lol. Don't think I can do this good, though.

[bonybomb]

i first heard of dantes inferno from that game comin out soon and then i saw ppl sayin about his book and poetry i was lk what theirs a book nd shit and ive never heard of this b4 any1 gt any sites i can read the book or a site i can read the poetry on maybe ill just google it later but thanks for letting me know about this book or poem its really interested me and ive never been interested in books or poems b4 lol :)

[TragicPrinceAlpha]

if youre still looking i think someone uploaded the poem itself here on youtube called dantes inferno canto its separated into 3 parts or more

[decisedsoldier20]

This is great music...my hats off to you

[SuiginChou]

I've loved this song ever since I first heard it in class 6 years ago. I'm glad to see that people from around the world have said the same thing I have told you since the day you played this for us: "you *ARE* the cinema Dante musician." Listening to your song, I can just picture the scenes playing out in my head. Few composers can evoke such vivid mental imagery as you do with this and the 3rd of the Dante pieces.

Good for you, WannaBeComposer. Good for you. :)

[germanchap]

I really really really want these songs. I hope you get a record deal. Or if the make a good movie adaptation (not like the 2007 bullshit) you are composer.

[CupcakeCutie83]

masterpiece of shit.

[Darkstar6638]

kinda like your soap operas..dramatic eh?

[TheMessanjah]

guess you're afraid of hell. today is the day of salvation.

[bambytkd]

which is the name of the second song? please somebody help me to get it

[AshandSmoke]

Great music... I want...

[ingfulu]

GREAT !!!

[burexasiromm]

i don't want to sound uneducated but i had this book at home and i haven't read it...is it any good?

sorry for bad english...

[Noxzor]

If you have the right translation than yes, this is a very good book indeed. You should give it a try. The Inferno is anything but dull, even if it was written about 700 years ago.

[sitdwnandhngon]

Definatly get a good translated one. I have one off the bargain rack and it's very tough to follow.

[mariotime12]

Good music well done.

[watchtail]

someone told me that a movie was already made, but it had like tom cruise in it, she said it wasnt that good.

[tranceoholic]

There will be a movie made about this: "The Divine Comedy Movie." It will be a trilogy, with the first movie (Dante's Inferno) planned to be released in the end of 2008.

I personally can't wait for it....since it's based from one of my favorite books of all time!!

[lilmanual]

sad almost no one knows about his book

[eternalnate]

Yeah people know, everyone that finished high school knows about The Divine Comedy. You are either a shut-in without friends or you have really stupid friends.

[yamagouchy69]

Actually I have never learned about this masterpiece at all in school, even though I read it on my own in 10th grade. I'm sure most of my classmates, sadly, have never even heard of it.

[evilvon]

i just read it and i'm in college as a freshman, my literature class has just the inferno to read but i'm sure most of them have never even heard of dante

[germanchap]

Actually a lot of countries find it inappropriate to teach Dante. So please don't be a dick, if you don't if you can back it up.

[eternalnate]

I just thought it was like common knowledge

[germanchap]

Nope, like I said before a lot of countries don't know anything about the amazing poetry of Dante. So please take everything into account before you falme.

Thank You

[eternalnate]

In that case I'm glad something like youtube can work to expand it's audience.

[germanchap]

I am also glad for the same reason.

[agroves120]

what why?!?!

[germanchap]

I am not sure... But here in New Zealand he is frowned upon.

[sheburnedmedown]

@germanchap really? can you elaborate why please :)

[germanchap]

@sheburnedmedown Many country will not teach this book just because of the strong religious themes. New Zealand is actually one of those countries.

[Dancing88Mike]

I wish they'd make a movie for this. On the downside though it would probably last for 3 hours.

[bmrrman]

In my opinion, well worth the time!

[oodarkkingoo]

exelent video !! i love it !

[TheDarkCorner]

hey this is so nice. great i love it!