Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Moderate |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Moderate |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Moderate |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Moderate |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
ReplyDeletePurgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers High
Level 2 Lustful High
Level 3 Gluttonous Moderate
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics High
Level 7 Violent High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low
Level 8 is the only surprise.
My lustful and malicious tendencies drag me down, but my repentance, lack of avariciousness and intensity of belief bring me back up.
ReplyDeleteSecond circle.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. The distance between impulse and action is low, as one of my professors said was typical of men in the Middle Ages. Kinda nice, that observation. I like that.
Of course, it helps to have low standards to begin with.
That is pretty deft, that Middle Ages observation.
ReplyDeleteSecond Level for me-gee, it's getting crowded in here.
ReplyDeletePurgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers High
Level 2 Lustful Very High
Level 3 Gluttonous Moderate
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Moderate
Level 7 Violent High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low
Hey, that was me above- got signed in as guest. Must be my punishment.
ReplyDeleteIt's level 6 for me I'm afraid, but one must be true to oneself.
ReplyDeleteAre there any extra points for being true to oneself?
Don't be overly harsh on yourself, bobal--we is all but lttle temporary sheeps in the vast herd of time.
ReplyDeletei guess that would be, the vast 'flock' of time.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the zip code on that 'City of Dis'? So I can have the wife forward the mail.
ReplyDeleteSecond level.
ReplyDeleteWimp.
When you show up, Beelzebub hands you a shovel and tells you to start digging, then you've accomplished something with your life...
Fibbing and self-deception are what save me from the worse levels.
ReplyDeleteFirst 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.
eternal life itself sounds pretty sad, to me. It's like beauty--much of it is in the evanescence (of either or both object and observer). I can't imagine a heaven of eternal joy. I wish I could.
ReplyDeleteHe who kisses the joy as it flies
ReplyDeleteLives in eternity's sunrise...
Blake
But it is hard to do, kissing that joy as it flies.
Kissing the joy as it flies... hmmmm... sounds a little to close to taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut, dontcha think?
ReplyDeleteWell, when you put it that way:)...
ReplyDeleteAnd knuck eases down a notch into the next circle....
ReplyDeleteOught to look up the exact words, but somewhere in "Paradise Lost" Milton describes Hell as a place that, whenever you reach bottom, the ground opens beneath you and you fall further still.
ReplyDeleteIt's just the difference between 19th century and 21st century expression, buddy.
ReplyDeleteI like Gregory of Nyssa--the dove flies through the darkness,and the darkness recedes--always something more!
That doesn't sound so good for derelicts, no bottom to hit.
well, there's that BIG one, sooner or later--
ReplyDelete:-(
First circle of hell: Limbo (for virtuous non-believers)
ReplyDeletegood thing I don't believe in an afterlife.