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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 07:29 PM
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Dante's Inferno Test - Impurity, Sin, and Damnation
Edited on Tue Oct-11-05 07:30 PM by Fox Mulder
This test is based on the description of Hell found in Dante's Divine Comedy. Answer the questions as honestly as you can and discover your fate. Based on your answers, your purity will be judged and you will be banished to the appropriate level of hell.

So which level of hell are you going to be banished to?

Link here: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

My results...

Second Level of Hell - Lustful
You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.


Sweet...I'm spending eternity with Cleopatra. :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:


Edited for spelling
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Graf Orlok Donating Member (441 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:04 PM
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1. Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis - Heretics
You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.

In your face, God! :D
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freethought Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:53 PM
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14. I made sixth level too. Sounds like the city of Dis is
the place to party!! Margaritas Please!! YeeeeeHAAWWW!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:09 PM
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2. I'm in the fifth - Wrathful and Gloomy
Fifth Level of Hell

The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx.


Though I scored high on Levels 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8.

And very low on 1 and 6.

Moderate on 9.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:56 PM
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6. So, wait, I have to spend all eternity with you?
My one chance to escape and it turns into, well, Hell. Them's the laws of irony for you. ;) :hi:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 09:01 PM
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8. God is nothing if not perfectly ironic.
:P
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:11 PM
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3. Third Level of Hell
In the third circle, you find yourself amidst eternal rain, maledict, cold, and heavy. The gluttons are punished here, lying in the filthy mixture of shadows and of putrid water. Because you consumed in excess, you meet your fate beneath the cold, dirty rain, amidst the other souls that there lay unhappily in the stinking mud. Cerebus, a canine monster cruel and uncouth with his three heads and red eyes, dwells in this level. He growls and tears at the damned with his teeth and claws.

See you at the pool!
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just a girl Donating Member (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:19 PM
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4. Seventh Level of Hell
Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

Hmmm....
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suzbaby Donating Member (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:28 PM
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5. I'm in the First Level of Hell: Limbo
First Level of Hell - Limbo
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.

Doesn't sound that bad. Apparently I am a virtuous non-believer.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-05 08:59 PM
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7. I think I've only ever gotten to Purgatory
I can never get to the good levels of Hell.
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:28 PM
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10. me either
:cry: Purgatory

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You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:19 PM
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9. I'm going to the second level of hell too!
Cool!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:35 PM
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11. First Level of Hell - Limbo
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
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Sacajawea Donating Member (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:41 PM
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12. Ninth Level! WooooHoooo!!! Without even trying hard.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:45 PM
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13. Here's my fate: Very interesting!
Your fate has been decided....
You are one of the lucky ones! Because of your virtue and beliefs, you have escaped eternal punishment. You are sent to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
First Level of Hell - Limbo

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Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:09 AM
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15. Seventh Level of Hell
Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

Huh. Sounds like fun! ;)
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catbert836 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:18 AM
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16. Yeah! Limbo
First Level of Hell - Limbo
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.

I wouldn't mind hanging out with Caesar, Virgil, Socrates, and Homer for eternity, even if everything is sad.
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