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Forum Meta => Archive => General Discussion Archive => Topic started by: Eientei on July 19, 2007, 12:34:34 AM
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Ever read Dante's Inferno and wonder where God would send your sorry hide to roast/freeze/get flayed for all eternity? Now you can find out! Take the Hell Test, based on the nine circles of Dante's Hell as featured in the Divine Comedy.
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv (http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv)
I got the Second Circle for being Lustful. How embarrassing.
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Just before the river Styx is the Fourth Level of Hell. Here, the prodigal and the avaricious suffer their punishment, as they roll weights back and forth against one another. You will share eternal damnation with others who either wasted and lived greedily and insatiably, or who stockpiled their fortunes, hoarding everything and sharing nothing. Plutus, the wolf-like demon of wealth, dwells here.
Yeah, I'm sure I'll be going to hell, just as I'm sure worshipping to an invisible man in the sky will save me.
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Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge
Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. 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. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.
Woot 8th level! That's what I get for believing people can see the future and stealing a few pens from work.
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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.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very High
Level 1 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | Very Low
Level 3 | High (Gluttony... I like food, what can I say?)
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Very Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Very Low
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate (Haven't been to church in the last few months, cause I've been out of the country...)
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very Low
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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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Fourth Level of Hell
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Just before the river Styx is the Fourth Level of Hell. Here, the prodigal and the avaricious suffer their punishment, as they roll weights back and forth against one another. You will share eternal damnation with others who either wasted and lived greedily and insatiably, or who stockpiled their fortunes, hoarding everything and sharing nothing. Plutus, the wolf-like demon of wealth, dwells here.
did it a 2nd time and got
Level 1 - 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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Cool. Call me Jesus
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 Purgatory!
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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goody, goody 2 shoes...i didnt know what half the things meant.
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I was Very High for Purgatory and Limbo, but I must have had a point or two more for Purgatory since that's where it put me. Huzzah for not being tormented!
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I got purgatory :P
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Lusty Emp, in Purgatory? Say it ain't so! :-P
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Yup, apparently, thoughts and friendly teasing isn't too sinful. So don't worry, I can keep teasing you for laughs in paradise while we are both blissful with our respective significant others ;D
And as you can see in my avatar, purgatory isn't too bad either if you wear proper protection ::)
And if your ' :-P ' is an invitation I'm afraid I will have to respectfully decline you that pleasure ;D
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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.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Very High
Level 2 Lustful Low
Level 3 Gluttonous Moderate
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very High
Level 7 Violent Low
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low
What can I say? W00t for being in good company with Socrates and Virgil, etc.
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Yay!
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Purgatory
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.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very High
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | Moderate
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Low
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very Low
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we have a lot of super religious folk here...
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No...just nice people who apparently believe in a God. Seemingly, that's all it took.
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well, im nice and i belive in god...
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well, I bet someone who is a religious zealot would go to the 8th or 9th circle.
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Exactly.
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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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Mama Khab wasn't in Purgatory? :o
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Fourth Level of Hell
Just before the river Styx is the Fourth Level of Hell. Here, the prodigal and the avaricious suffer their punishment, as they roll weights back and forth against one another. You will share eternal damnation with others who either wasted and lived greedily and insatiably, or who stockpiled their fortunes, hoarding everything and sharing nothing. Plutus, the wolf-like demon of wealth, dwells here.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
(Click on a level for more info)
Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers High
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Very Low
Level 2 Lustful Moderate
Level 3 Gluttonous High
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very High
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very Low
Level 7 Violent Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Low
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well, I bet someone who is a religious zealot would go to the 8th or 9th circle.
I got 8th level of hell. Not so bad, whole lot of wizards and fortune tellers there. We keep getting the frost mages to make snowballs to see how much of a chance they'll have.
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Oh, well, I was wrong, they, and religious politicians in particular would likely go to the 6th or 9th circle.
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I'm sorry what?
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very High
Level 1 | Moderate
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Low
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 | Very Low
Level 7 | Low
Level 8 | Low
Level 9 | High
Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
I love the fact that the top three are Purgatory, Limbo and Cocytus. What the-?
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I got 8th level of hell. Not so bad, whole lot of wizards and fortune tellers there. We keep getting the frost mages to make snowballs to see how much of a chance they'll have.
Heehee...
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So, should the cross logo tell us something, Naivetry?
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So I'm really the only one to get the second circle?
I didn't think I was that bad...
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So, should the cross logo tell us something, Naivetry?
Probably. :P
I'm a Methodist preacher's kid in RL.
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The only one who could ever reach me was a son of a preacher man...
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Nice touch there Soly :-P
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Soly - now with 90% more Jesus in order to save your soul!
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I'll buy 20!
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The only one who could ever reach me was a son of a preacher man...
<-- Daughter. ;)
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<- Son.
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<== Larry!
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Fifth Level of Hell
ROFL that's it? only 5th level?
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<== Hopeless romantic with a naughty streak
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9th level doesn't sound that bad, frozen in ice while the others have to get torture. Really laid back if you ask me...Maybe their mouth's are open cause they were gawking in surprise at the lightness of their punishment.
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Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge
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Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. 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. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
(Click on a level for more info)
Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Very Low
Level 2 Lustful Very High
Level 3 Gluttonous Moderate
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious High
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very High
Level 7 Violent Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Extreme
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous High
I feel like such a bad, bad person! lol oh well. :whip:
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CL, I love you! Alizeé!
Pumpkin, don't worry, we who go to Heaven won't laugh... a lot.
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Alizee, the cutest and hottest French singer to date!
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Do you want to start a praising thread?
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Awesome Idea! To the Fanclub!
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Alizee, the cutest and hottest French singer to date!
Alizee has to take at least a quarter of the blame for this:
Second Level of Hell
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.
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Lol, not even. I myself only got the First Level. It must had been something else, you can not blame innocent Alizee for this!
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Purgatory!
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Only Second Level of Hell
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Hell ain't a bad place... Hell is from here to eternity!
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Seventh Level of Hell
G
uarded 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.
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but PUR's a nice person....
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Remember Bara...PUR can be naughty.
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oh yeah..... but she has a good heart.
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We know that...but a stupid test doesn't.
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lol *blushes a bit*
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Yay! Two days made a little brighter!
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/me slaps the grinning Max around a lot with a large trout.
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What? Max needs a happy day too!
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Max is happy today, unfortunately.
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Sounds like fun!
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Oh, I agree. Most wouldn't.
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Why not?
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Because Max is pretty Evil.
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Uh-oh...Evil with a capital E. Dare I ask...how Evil?
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Evil as in Satan makes deals with him, not the other way around.
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Ok, that's evil. I won't mess with him.
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Whos Max?
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Sol's other personality.
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God, where have you been, Bara?
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Not spamming, I can tell you that.
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And I take the cake. The 9th level. Guess it's a good thing for me that I don't subscribe to this.
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Hedge your bets, traitor. I get to Purgatory regardless.
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I'm actually one of the most loyal people out there..it's the "could you do it?" that gets me. I ascribe to not ruling out doing anything if the situation calls for it.
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So... you're easily manipulated?
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Depends on the kind of carrot at the end of the stick. ;) In general I'm the one doing the manipulating tho.
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Yeah, right.
You don't need a carrot or a stick to get people to do your will. Anyone really good at it would know that.
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I was referring the the carrot and stick used on me. Never said that was anything like my methodology. I prefer methods where the manipulated has no idea it's happening.
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Good, that means you're still a few notches below.
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Below....being easily manipulated? Didn't quite follow that one. :-\
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Precisely.
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Ah. OK. I got it. Distracted by my hot fudge & ice cream.
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I find the first question of this survey to be very enlightening... why should it matter?
Please select your gender: Male/Female
Would you sooner go without sex than go without good-tasting food?
Is this not a trick question? Lust or Gluttony, what about neither?
Think about some of the sinful or wrong things you've done in the past. Do you foresee yourself continuing to do these things?
Define right and wrong?
Rich men and women deserve every penny and should spend or save their wealth as they wish.
I wonder if this true/false question sits well with the large portion of evangelical republican party proponents.
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.
Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Low
Level 2 Lustful Very High
Level 3 Gluttonous Very Low
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very High
Level 7 Violent Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous High
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Christian morality, Xy.
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you know, this might be evangelical republican party.
darn religious politics....
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Unfortunate fact of life: Dealing with people who don't understand why everyone else shouldn't have to follow their rules.
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agreed....
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Anyone who tries to impose their values or rules on others deserve every can of whoopass that might be heading their way...
Eg. The US administrations and Islamic extremists deserve eachother... Unfortunately, both factions have a tendency to want to drag everyone else into their mess too.
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Anyone who tries to impose their values or rules on others deserve every can of whoopass that might be heading their way...
Start with yourself, then.
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Why should I? And start with what? I have encountered no opposition of that kind so far...
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Not to forget that Dante Alighieri, author of the mentioned work was also a member of the "White Party" in Florence.
He was banned and wrote this book more as a political payoff than a religious work. That`s why we find all of his political enemy's in hell and his Friend's in either the purgatory or heaven.
On this note it is also interesting that there is a "Which level of Hell will you go to" quiz but I have never seen a "Which level of Heaven will you go to" quiz.
I find the fascination of western religions with the concept of hell rater unsettling. Actually everything revolves around hell in the catholic Church. I have more than once pointed out that it seems the duty of Catholic personal to whip the people to the collection box using the fear of hell.
But that's just my :2c:
O:-)
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I find the fascination of western religions with the concept of hell rater unsettling. Actually everything revolves around hell in the catholic Church. I have more than once pointed out that it seems the duty of Catholic personal to whip the people to the collection box using the fear of hell.
But that's just my :2c:
O:-)
i noticed that to. thank god for beingProtestantt! (there a bit more nicer)
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i noticed that to. thank god for beingProtestantt! (there a bit more nicer)
I noticed that when my grandparents died. On my grandfather's burial (Catholic) the priest was all about sadness and dead and stuff. On my grandma`s funeral (Protestant) the priest was uplifting in his speech pointing out my grandma now being in heaven and released of all mortal troubles. He really tried to take the sadness away as best he could.
Nonetheless I am rather agnostic. Religion is not my thing.
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See, the Catholics seem to be about the evil things, then telling them if you dont to so and so, then you go to hell.
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Why should I? And start with what? I have encountered no opposition of that kind so far...
Because you're imposing your values on others.
Pachamama, "God wants Christians to die." Also, the fear-of-Hell aspect is once again all about control through the stick.
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See, the Catholics seem to be about the evil things, then telling them if you dont to so and so, then you go to hell.
This may be the impression you get, b far as I know there is no doctrinal difference as to "niceness". It goes along the same lines as a big black man and a big white man are going to fight. Everyone thinks big black man is going to win because many people assume big black people are dangerous (big black moms for example are mean and powerful, big white moms are just lovey and mushy)
Both Protestants and Catholics alike try to force their opinions down your throat. I'm sorry, but if I don't want to accept Jesus isn't that something I'll have to deal with on my own? Proselytizing seems pointless. What kind of self-serving God needs people to grovel on their knees and worship him? Why must *worship* be a part of faith, I'd be much more inclined to be a Christian if I didn't always have to ask for forgiveness for everything I did in life, much less be born guilty just because my mom and dad had sex. What kind of guilt must a truly devout catholic child feel if he's the offspring of a woman who was raped? Christianity doesn't force judgement of Hell down your throat, it guilts you into believing in God.
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Well, In my view, so-called christians who try to give anyone guilt trips are not much better than heretics. With my definition of heresy beeing someone who uses other people's faith for accomplishing their own ends.
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I have auto-repentance on. If I ever need to become Catholic, I'll survive.
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he....auto repentance...
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I have auto-repentance on. If I ever need to become Catholic, I'll survive.
Does that feature come with Vista Ultimate?
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My grandmother left the Church a while ago because she got divorced and they of course gave her a hard time about it. She goes to a Lutheran church now. It all seems pretty much the same to me anyway.
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No, Linux.
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It also comes with Mac OS X 42. It's codenamed Godzilla.
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The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Low
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low
huh, you all deserve to die for cursing me to the 2nd level
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What kind of self-serving God needs people to grovel on their knees and worship him? Why must *worship* be a part of faith, I'd be much more inclined to be a Christian if I didn't always have to ask for forgiveness for everything I did in life, much less be born guilty just because my mom and dad had sex. What kind of guilt must a truly devout catholic child feel if he's the offspring of a woman who was raped? Christianity doesn't force judgement of Hell down your throat, it guilts you into believing in God.
Oh, I missed this. I don't want to pick a fight, so I hope you won't take it that way. I just hate leaving this sitting here unanswered.
First off, God isn't self-serving, doesn't need worship, and certainly doesn't want groveling. As someone who does worship God, I find it difficult to recall any time when worshiping called for groveling. :P Dancing and singing and praising, yes; groveling, no. Worship can really be an amazing experience... all this joy that floods through you until you've simply got to let it out.
You may be confusing worship with confession or repentance. I've been on that side, too, but let me assure you, the groveling is only what our own emotions call for at the time - and not what God requires. It's like nothing more than a child who has broken something precious, and runs crying to his mother to say he's sorry. He cries because he really is sorry - he knows he's done something bad, something that may hurt and upset her - not because she wants him to cry. It's the same with us and God. And God's forgiveness is like a father running to greet the son who had abandoned him and squandered his inheritance - completely ignoring the attempts of the son to make up for it, and offering him a welcome home party instead.
much less be born guilty just because my mom and dad had sex
I find this quote extremely puzzling. In case anyone has missed the newsflash... sex is good. :P That's what so much of the fighting over heresy has been about through the ages - regular Christians affirming loudly that God's creation is not inherently evil. Anyone in or out of the Church who tells you that the Church says otherwise is, not to be too blunt, either a liar or historically blind.
What kind of guilt must a truly devout catholic child feel if he's the offspring of a woman who was raped?
o_O None. Oh, by the love that kept Christ on the cross, none. The life of that child, and any child, is dear to God. What possible twisted imagination could blame the child of an innocent mother for the sin of the father? Really, the misinformation that gets out about Christianity is enough to make one believe in the devil. :-[
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One question, though...would God forgive suicide?
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Well, first of all, there's only one real way to find out!
Secondly, I wouldn't blame someone whom I loved and who loved me from trying to come to me ASAP.
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So...what I gleaned from that was
a) you're a zombie/ghost
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b) you don't know
I asked because I've heard from many at my Catholic high school (I'm personally not Catholic, by the way) that if you commit suicide, it's straight off to Hell for you. That seems a little mean.
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Yes, I believe that's a standard Catholic belief. At least it's the one I've always heard. But if you kill yourself and don't get to Heaven, they might be right.
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I'm not going to test that out.
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No guts, no glory.
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As far as I understand it, suicide is not some kind of "unforgivable sin." None of this heaven/hell stuff is as simplistic as people try to make it.
I've never honestly considered suicide, so I can't tell you what the mindset is... I'm sure it varies from person to person. But I do know my God has compassion on the weak.
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Well...lustful ;D But i'm glad i'm "room-mates" with Aristotle, Socrates, Caesar.... :)
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??? Socrates, really? Plato, maybe...
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The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 7 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Seventh Level of Hell!
Seventh Level of Hell
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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.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
(Click on a level for more info)
Level Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers High
Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Moderate
Level 2 Lustful Moderate
Level 3 Gluttonous Low
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Very Low
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy High
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Very Low
Level 7 Violent Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Very Low