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Where do you like your crucifixions?

Where do you like your crucifixions?

  • in a burial ground "outside of the city walls" like the Ancients (if that still exists...)

    Votes: 37 35.9%

  • in an "open cemetery" ("American style")

    Votes: 6 5.8%

  • in a "walled cemetery" ("European style"), with free access to the public

    Votes: 5 4.9%

  • in a "walled cemetery" with restricted access to the public (please explain)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • "within the city walls", in a prominent spot, like a major public square or the like

    Votes: 52 50.5%

  • "within the city walls", elsewhere (please explain)

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • in a prison or courthouse's yard, with free access to the public

    Votes: 32 31.1%

  • in a prison or courthouse's yard, with restricted access to the public (please explain)

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • elsewhere outdoors (please explain)

    Votes: 28 27.2%

  • indoors (please explain)

    Votes: 4 3.9%
  • Total voters
    103
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For me, the ideal "place" for crucifixions is Golgotha. It need not be the actual or literal historical place itself, just a dedicated crucifixion grounds with everything set up, in the spirit of a Golgotha. I'm all for public crucifixion, but not at a public place of gathering like a town square. It's too happy and social.

I see crucifixion as sacred and special, even though it's a brutal humiliating punishment that removes all dignity and ends in execution. I see being condemned to crucifixion not as the judicial sentence that it is, but ironically as a special honour to bestow, an almost spiritual ritual or rite of passage that honors those involved, even though they receive cruelty and harsh disrespectful punishment, injury, humiliation, disgrace and death.

My reasoning is the secret respect that the onlookers and executioners must have for the condemned for what they will or are going through, especially female victims, in the same way as you have extra respect for, say, a female gladiator. People see the crucified and question whether they could endure it, and become attracted and hauntingly connected to certain victims, even people outside the usual attraction of their sexuality, and secretly long to be on the cross themselves. So, for me, crucifixion should take place in a special, spiritually charged, yet harsh and brutal, and slightly remote and secluded place.
 
dfg42 said:
There is a development of the society, so if crucifixion was used as death penalty 2000 years ago, it can become something different. My favorite scenario, now, is that the roman Empire has survived and crucifixion had become an initiation ritual. Which means, that young adults, all belonging to the Roman noblesse, is bound at some age, say 20, to a cross (nails would be possible, see the Philippiness, but made no sense). With that, the pain, the nudity and the other sexual aspects, including a penetration with a big(!) cornu in front of their relatives they show the enterinbg of the adult life, and to be no longer a child.
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In this case, Roman society has changed :)
 
For me, I would want to be scourged in the soldiers barracks, then carry my beam out of the city, onto a little hill beside the main road. Like @Crucified Life I pretend its Golgotha, but any designated crucifixion site would do. I would be crucified facing the city, elevated on the hill above the road. No modern scenario for me, its all Roman soldiers in an ancient setting.
 
In my warped mind, the cross are set up outside the doors of a church. Those requiring punishment are tied, not nailed, and raised prior to services where they hang naked as the good citizens marched into church.

Doors are left open so that the crucified cannot help but hear the pastor’s sermon on God’s view of sinners. After the service ends the well dressed parishioners exit and spend a few minutes staring at the unfortunate souls before going across the way for coffee with their neighbors, thankful that no one in their family would ever require such a humiliating public punishment.

The sinners would be left hanging in silence for the remainder of the day while friends and family retire home to a pleasant day of rest.

At sunset they would be quietly removed from their devices and sent on their way. The lucky ones would have family to retrieve them and massage their sore muscles.

Perhaps a view of the future in a God fearing society?
 
toastywarm said:
Perhaps a view of the future in a God fearing society?
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Perhaps a purist bible-believing explanation- In our religion GOD died himself, cruely exposed nude, cornuated on a cross for us poor sinners. So the many atheist in our society have to die themselves on the cross, because they do not believe someone else did. So forcing that rule, you will see how fast the number of atheists will be smallen, else at least we have some nice crucifixions to visit.
 
mp5stab said:
I think we have been approaching the question wrong. I think crucifixions should be so ubiquitous that they question is instead “where aren’t crucifixions carried out”?
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@Barbaria1 and @Eulalia would just be two more bodies struggling to pull themselves up on their nailed wrists, their screams and moans joining the cacophony of wails from the long, seemingly endless rows of crucified women and girls all along the sides of the road.

As punishment for asking the question of where the crucifixion should take place, @scrofetta is being nailed to her cross on top a hill overlooking the city, where, once raised, she will be able to see ask of the suffering from her throne.
 
1. in an "open cemetery" Anyone can come and see the suffering.
2. "within the city walls", in a prominent place, such as a large public square or the like. This makes sense within the city and encourages people to obey the laws.
3. elsewhere in the open air. In the forest at a crossroads where you can enjoy the first rays of sunlight before the sun burns.
Every visitor can enjoy me and have fun.
 
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Crucified Life said:
For me, the ideal "place" for crucifixions is Golgotha. It need not be the actual or literal historical place itself, just a dedicated crucifixion grounds with everything set up, in the spirit of a Golgotha. I'm all for public crucifixion, but not at a public place of gathering like a town square. It's too happy and social.

I see crucifixion as sacred and special, even though it's a brutal humiliating punishment that removes all dignity and ends in execution. I see being condemned to crucifixion not as the judicial sentence that it is, but ironically as a special honour to bestow, an almost spiritual ritual or rite of passage that honors those involved, even though they receive cruelty and harsh disrespectful punishment, injury, humiliation, disgrace and death.

My reasoning is the secret respect that the onlookers and executioners must have for the condemned for what they will or are going through, especially female victims, in the same way as you have extra respect for, say, a female gladiator. People see the crucified and question whether they could endure it, and become attracted and hauntingly connected to certain victims, even people outside the usual attraction of their sexuality, and secretly long to be on the cross themselves. So, for me, crucifixion should take place in a special, spiritually charged, yet harsh and brutal, and slightly remote and secluded place.
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I wouldn't mind being crucified in public.
 
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