Sometimes, yes. Absolutely.

No, God is other people, and you.

It is hard to know really. Only someone who has never been around anyone else; never saw, never touched or communicated with others could really tell us. Unfortunately, people like that don't post here =)

Hell is an attitude, so Sartre could be right on some level.

Yes, but only if you understand it right: "Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit has just finished a run at Imago Theater, right across the street from Kboo. The play’s three main characters arrive in hell and discover that their fate is to spend a sleepless eternity together in one small room, and that they are well suited to be each others’ torturers. As one of them says after a while, Hell is other people. But Sartre also said, …“hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because…when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves, … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves. Into whatever I say about myself someone else’s judgment always enters. Into whatever I feel within myself someone else’s judgment enters. … But that does not at all mean that one cannot have relations with other people. It simply brings out the capital importance of all other people for each one of us. (From the Imago playbill)" Source and further information: http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/hell.html Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit

To a degree, since the majority of human suffering is caused by other humans, and logically putting things together, pain, fear and suffering encompass the general definition of Hell-which is usually (I wanted to use an insulting adjective here, but eh.) attributed to earthly things. Perhaps mental disorders or psychological irregularities is actually Heaven. :/

Only if nobody's lilstening.

hell isnt for anyone...hell is against

after reading being & nothingness, yes sartre might have fit in that category, lol. actually, i think hell is your own construct. other people just make it more hellish.

I do not agree. "Hell is other people" means our sense of self is not entirely derivative of "being-in-itself" or "being-for-itself." The knowledge we have of others ("being-with-others") structures our own self-determinations. We do not simply infer the existence of others, but live among other consciousnesses envisioning a body of facts about each other. For example, if someone catches me in the act of doing something embarrassing, I find that I define myself on his or her terms. We attach unflattering facts to one another, judgments which become the essential ingredients in our own sense of self. This inevitably leads to conflict. However, if this conflict is indeed a "Hell," how is it we are able to be relatively civil to one another: obey laws, work among each other constructively, and even engage in unified political action? Perhaps "Hell" is a poor choice of words, granted at least the appearance of concrete solidarity among fellow human beings. Maybe "subliminal acrimony" would be more appropriate?