What is Leviathan in Hellraiser?

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  @sketchesofpayne · 1 month ago

  At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island in New York, the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.<br><br>Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”

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• AS

  @asteroidrules · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUgO4F2Eoo&amp;t=580">9:40</a> this aspect of the puzzle boxes is directly acknowledged in the second movie, when the mentally unstable Tiffany is forced to solve the puzzle by Dr. Channard, the cenobites arrive but specifically say &quot;it is not hands, but desire&quot; that summons them, and they take the doctor instead of the patient because she herself had no desire to summon Hell, while the doctor was obsessed with it. The original story Hellraiser is based on was called &quot;the Hellbound Heart&quot; and while one might assume it refers to a heart that is bound within Hell&apos;s torment, it can also mean a heart that is bound towards Hell, a desire that will only lead in one direction.

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• SE

  @selfsabotagingbanana0451 · 1 month ago

  &quot;The brain is designed to keep us alive, not to make us happy&quot; - truer words have never been spoken.

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• ZA

  @zaarkwark · 1 month ago

  The Leviathan doesn&apos;t want to punish us. The punishment is just the involuntary reflex of a beautiful thing being driven completely insane by our presence.

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• KI

  @KingDetraktos · 1 month ago

  “Then they come…<br>…the Cenobites.” OK BRO

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• DR

  @Dreigonix · 1 month ago

  “WE ARE MEANT TO KNOW NOTHING AND FEEL EVERYTHING” –The Scarlet Church, and also every Kingdom Hearts fan

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• PS

  @psidesign8664 · 1 month ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUgO4F2Eoo&amp;t=4">0:04</a> 20 buckets of shrimp<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUgO4F2Eoo&amp;t=47">0:47</a> wrong im good with the shrimp

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• FR

  @Frankagator · 1 month ago

  It also reads as a direct opposite to bhuddism where the eradication of want and desire is the goal. Purification of the soul by being able to let go and eventually, rejoin with God

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• TH

  @TheEveningMC · 1 month ago

  &quot;what do you want, no monkey&apos;s paw.&quot;<br>Me: A comfortable but completely satisfying life.<br>&quot;Here&apos;s the caveat... You have to be completely satisfied.&quot;<br>Phew...!

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• EX

  @exhalestren3858 · 1 month ago

  Leviathan is essentially William Blake’s Urizen. Urizen represents the cold, calculating intellect cut off from human creativity and spiritual vision.

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• BU

  @BusyTuesday · 1 month ago

  The algorithm when Volrusk uploads: <b>&quot;We have such sights to show you&quot;</b>

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• KR

  @Kramerica962 · 1 month ago

  The puzzle boxes are best described as an unlocked door. Locks only protect you from honest people, likewise an unlocked door offers the same protection a locked one does meaning it takes a certain type of person to test the door to even realize it&apos;s unlocked in the first place. The people who solve the box weren&apos;t unfortunate souls caught in a trap, they were always going to solve the puzzle.

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