The Inferno

[Posher778]

I thought this was fun, try it!


http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html#5


What level did you get? I got sent to level 7, but I think I belong in level 5.



Which do you think was the worst level? I don't think it gets much worse that being chewed on by satan in a freezing cold mouth for eternity, so, level 9 is the worst for me.

[ChronoGrl]

I was sent to Level 7.

Hmmm.

Cons: I agree with Posh, I probably belong in level 5 (or 6)... I mean, if I'm thrown there with the violent assassins, I simply wouldn't belong.

Pros: Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Harpies. Level 7 is a veritable mythical zoo! And the punishment(s) don't sound all THAT bad.

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.

Could be worse.

Example: LEVEL 8.

Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails.

Wallowing in excrement. Being torn apart. That's pretty tortured. I'd play with the Minotaur any day.

[hellfire1]

Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis

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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.


Sounds about right.

[Doc Faustus]

Nauseating translation of the sign in the 3rd Canto. Bleh, makes my skin crawl. I'm tied between lustful and wrathful. That sums things up pretty well.

[hellfire1]

Nauseating translation of the sign in the 3rd Canto. Bleh, makes my skin crawl.


Were you seriously expecting different from an online quiz ? :)

[Doc Faustus]

True enough. But people have been butchering that one for centuries. It's actually "leave hope behind ye enter here" not "abandon all hope ye who enter here", which is commonly (mis)quoted.

[missmacabre]

Wow. I got Purgatory. haha

[jenna26]

Second Level of Hell

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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.


Fair enough, I suppose....:rolleyes:

[fortunato]

i got level 1.
limboooo.

[ChronoGrl]

True enough. But people have been butchering that one for centuries. It's actually "leave hope behind ye enter here" not "abandon all hope ye who enter here", which is commonly (mis)quoted.

I like this guy.

[Roderick Usher]

Level 2 for lustful people...go figure



I'm tired of being told that saying "God damn" is taking the Lord's name in vain - that's a misinterpretation of the one commandment that is considered "unforgivable."

You'll be forgiven for foul language.

You won't be forgiven for killing, manipulating, molesting, etc in the name of God. Using God or the bible to justify a sin is the unforgivable offense of "taking the Lord's name in vain". Thats' what the commandment means.

I'm no longer a believer in any particular dogma, but as a former theology student, this one has always gotten on my nerves.

[Doc Faustus]

I like this guy.

Aww, thank you.

[missmacabre]

Aww, thank you.

watch out. she's gonna want your blood next.

[Posher778]

Level 2 for lustful people...go figure



I'm tired of being told that saying "God damn" is taking the Lord's name in vain - that's a misinterpretation of the one commandment that is considered "unforgivable."

You'll be forgiven for foul language.

You won't be forgiven for killing, manipulating, molesting, etc in the name of God. Using God or the bible to justify a sin is the unforgivable offense of "taking the Lord's name in vain". Thats' what the commandment means.

I'm no longer a believer in any particular dogma, but as a former theology student, this one has always gotten on my nerves.


I've had to explain that to people a lot too. The idea of Frailty is a good example of unforgivable.

[AUSTIN316426808]

7th level

Coincidence obviously, but whenever I use the term, I say ''I've slipped into the 7th circle of hell''.

[Despare]

Looks like I'm the only one down in 4... all by myself.

[ChronoGrl]

Level 2 for lustful people...go figure



I'm tired of being told that saying "God damn" is taking the Lord's name in vain - that's a misinterpretation of the one commandment that is considered "unforgivable."

You'll be forgiven for foul language.

You won't be forgiven for killing, manipulating, molesting, etc in the name of God. Using God or the bible to justify a sin is the unforgivable offense of "taking the Lord's name in vain". Thats' what the commandment means.

I'm no longer a believer in any particular dogma, but as a former theology student, this one has always gotten on my nerves.

Oh, I definitely agree... The fact that Usurers and Sodomites (ahhh, yes, the "connection" between blasphemous Homosexuality and... Lending) are bound to the Seventh Level along with "The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers," and, well, me and Posh and Austin, seems slightly... unbalanced.

But then again, we have to consider that the original text was written in 1308 and focuses purely on Christian Theology at the time...

What is more poignant is to consider what is considered blasphemous now... Of course, a lot of beliefs manifest from these writings (along with The Bible), and what is interpreted literally and what is not.

watch out. she's gonna want your blood next.

hahaha... She's catching on...

[Doc Faustus]

[QUOTE=ChronoGrl;653973]Oh, I definitely agree... The fact that Usurers and Sodomites (ahhh, yes, the "connection" between blasphemous Homosexuality and... Lending) are bound to the Seventh Level along with "The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers," and, well, me and Posh and Austin, seems slightly... unbalanced.

But then again, we have to consider that the original text was written in 1308 and focuses purely on Christian Theology at the time...

What is more poignant is to consider what is considered blasphemous now... Of course, a lot of beliefs manifest from these writings (along with The Bible), and what is interpreted literally and what is not.]

Dante, however called into question a lot of the dogmas. For example, he has a lot of anger at the papacy and frequently ponders biblical justice. Look how he feels about Paolo and Francesca for example, and Brunetto Lattini...who is a homosexual. For the time, his understanding of religious hypocrisy and some of the inherent unfairness of things is absolutely sublime. Dante's talk about Ugolino, a man wronged by the state, is very forward thinking politically. For a man who served as a magistrate to stop and question dogmas and the papacy is amazing. More forward thinking than nowadays. What happens to a man driven to desperation by the state today?

[ChronoGrl]

Well, then maybe that's the point of the inferno. Not to applaud Christan Dogma, but to question it. Perhaps he is actually being ironic in his detailed, erudite, and elaborate descriptions of torture. By emphasizing the horrors inflicted upon the victims (or the "damned") Dante is calling into question the rationale between condemning certain groups of people to eternal suffering, also, the concept of eternal suffering in and of itself.

I believe that, while people (Christians, etc), may throw the word "Hell" around, they don't stop to sit back and actually consider what eternal, infinite suffering is. To contemplate the infinite is not something that people in general do, never mind contemplate infinite suffering. What Dante is attempting to do is to put into words what eternal suffering is or might be (and while some is exaggerated, some is generalized, so that the readers can put their own assumptions on his interpretation).

So, the descriptions in and of themselves are calling into question Christian dogma - forcing people to actual consider what this concept of "Hell" truly is. And what the consequences are in sentencing people to damnation.


What happens to a man driven to desperation by the state today?
Depends on what you mean. Some make statements. Some become ex-pats. Some make horror movies. :p

I think that "The State" has become such an abstract thing, especially in the US, split between Federal and State oppression (if that's what, indeed, you are referring to).

[paws the great]

Level 4.......

[Yellow Jacket]

Seventh Level of Hell for me. All because of porn. :D :p