Dante's Inferno Quiz

[Solario]

Which level of Hell are you going to?

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
"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."

Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low (Repenting Believers)
Level 1 - Limbo | Moderate (Virtuous Non-Believers)
Level 2 | High (Lustful(
Level 3 | Moderate (Gluttonous)
Level 4 | Moderate (Prodigal and Avaricious)
Level 5 | High (Wrathful and Gloomy)
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High (Heretics)
Level 7 | Moderate (Violent)
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low (Treacherous)

Anyone else joining me in the hellfire and brimstone?

[Stalking Shadow]

I'd love to, if I knew what the link was. :p

[Solario]

Do'h. I knew I forgot something.


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

[Stalking Shadow]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Moderate

[Grae Knight]

I guess I am not that bad..

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 | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Moderate
Level 2 | Very High
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | Low
Level 5 | Very Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Low
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

[Sword]

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.

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Very High
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | High
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very High

[Knightward]

I did this some time ago, but since that was a few years ago I figured I should take it again. Here's my results:

Purgatory - Very Low
Level 1 - High
Level 2 - High
Level 3 - Moderate
Level 4 - Very Low
Level 5 - High
Level 6 - Moderate
Level 7 - Moderate
Level 8 - Moderate
Level 9 - Low

[Sword]

I did this some time ago, but since that was a few years ago I figured I should take it again. Here's my results:

Purgatory - Very Low
Level 1 - High
Level 2 - High
Level 3 - Moderate
Level 4 - Very Low
Level 5 - High
Level 6 - Moderate
Level 7 - Moderate
Level 8 - Moderate
Level 9 - Low

What hell did you end up in?

Edit: heh, my gf just took this and got:

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | Low
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | High
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low


Damn, she's a much better person than me. No surprise there though :D

[Solario]

In the Christian sense of the word anyway.

The Seven Deadly Sins are so horribly dated. That might be an indication as to what I answered to the "Morality is relative" question... ;)

[sheld0n]

A pimp is a good thing to be.

:lol:

As for my results:
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.

[Solario]

Note how great roman thinkers, while what the Bibel would probably call sodomites (especially Sokrates), pagans or worse, are in Limbo instead of the appropriate circles of Hell. Seems like Dante believed that if you're an important person or great thinker you are exempted from the tortures of normal men.

[Kinetix]

Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis

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.

Purgatory - Very Low
Level 1 - Very Low
Level 2 - Moderate
Level 3 - High
Level 4 - High
Level 5 - Very High
Level 6 - Very High
Level 7 - Moderate
Level 8 - Very High
Level 9 - High

[Kid Ferret_]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Very Low
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

[Stalking Shadow]

I'm a heretic in good company.

[Solario]

I was just about to mention how at least I'll have interesting company in the City of Dis.

How is it that one Invisibles line goes?.. All things considered, there's absolutely no escape from this hellish situation. I'm prepared to take the coward's way out if you are. It's reincarnation or nothing.

[Stalking Shadow]

You know, they built the City of Dis in the United States, but it doesn't have iron walls. Ironically, it's called Los Angeles.

[Solario]

You're right; the walls of Los Angeles aren't made of iron, but typically of gravel, asphalt and concrete and are commonly refered to as highways.

[Valcarde]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the 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.

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | Very High
Level 3 | Very High
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | High
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | High

[Gaia]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the 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.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low
Level 2 | Moderate
Level 3 | Very High
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

[Akamaz]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the 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

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 Low
Level 2 Lustful Very High
Level 3 Gluttonous Very High
Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious High
Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Moderate
Level 7 Violent High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous High


so based off of this test, i will most definately burn in hell, :)

[Gold Rush]

Seems like Dante believed that if you're an important person or great thinker you are exempted from the tortures of normal men.

Or he was a politician. ;)

Damn, what is it with these questions? "Do you eat at restaurants several times a week?" What does THAT have to do with anything?!?! (Yes, I am proud to be a religious unkowning heathen :p ). Some of these questions are ridiculous. Of course, maybe it's just modern interpretation of scripture. :P

Anyway, here are my results. Save a chair, Solario!


The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!

You approach Satan's not too shabby city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls covered in velvet taffeta. Before you are fields full of red dresses and Two-Mint Ice Cream Sundaes. Burning Bar-B-Que pits are littered about the landscape, cooking up delicious T-bone steaks. Nearby these flaming roasting pits are the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible grammy winning songs and tasty sirloin steaks. You will join the wicked that lie here awaiting to give you the sexual experience of a lifetime, and will be offered no respite. The three eternal Cuties stained with lipstick and cherry sauce, with sensouous limbs that only women can have and hair of silky smoothnes, dwell in this circle of Hell.


Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Low
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis | High
Level 7 | Low
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

[Solario]

I think I like your version better, Gold Rush. :D

I always thought the people of hell, considering their numbers, could probably rebel. It's what's makes us different from the Devil (and at times a thousand times better or worse) we can actually choose.

[TroubleWolf]

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

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Third Level of Hell!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low
Level 2 | Very High
Level 3 | Very High
Level 4 | Very High
Level 5 | Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very High

[The Freudian Slip]

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

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.


I think I know which question got me there...

A pimp is a good thing to be. True or False?

[Knightward]

What hell did you end up in?
Doh! Missed that part entierly!

*takes quiz again, attempts to get same results*

I couldn't get it exactly the same, but this was high both times, so it's probably it.

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.

[The Widowed]

Do you read scripture?
Yes...to debunk it. Do I still get to go to Heaven? :P

Religion is fiction.
Okay, now this is a loaded question. Religion is, by its definition, unknowable. It's not fact because we cannot prove that it is true, yet it isn't necessarily fiction because we cannot prove that any religion is false. Except for Scientology. That cult is faker than Hell. :p

However, most religions are valid attempts at contacting or communing with the Unseen, and most religions are valid paths of belief, a proven statement that is fact unto itself. So I'm going to answer "False" for that question.

Some people, such as Nostradamus, are able to predict future events.
Not necessarily Nostradamus; He mostly "predicted" through ambiguity, so I don't believe he was anything special. However, I am a believer in forms of precognition, psychic or otherwise. And, of course, the predictable inference of this quiz is "prediction = magic, and magic = evil". However, people predict events through science and mathematics as well. If Joe's Oil Company loses a dozen tankers in a hurricane, stock prices in Joe's Oil Company are going to drop. If a cold front sweeps down from western Canada in November, landlocked northwestern states like Montana are going to get a lot of snow.

Granted, such predictions aren't 100% accurate, but hey...prediction's prediction.

True.

Would you sooner go without sex than go without good-tasting food?
...and this question is about as loaded as they come, a veritable Catch-22. There's no way to virtuously answer this question, so do I side with Lust or with Gluttony? Lust. Gluttony. Lust. Gluttony....

Lust.

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.
I get to hang out with Cleopatra and Helen of Troy? That's good enough for me! :headbang:

[The Widowed]

Another odd thing is that I'm a convicted heretic and I conscientiously deny Christianity, yet I scored Low on Level 6. Odd. Maybe it was the question about believing in an afterlife, or maybe it was the "Do you believe in God" question (which I assumed was aimed at atheists, so I answered Yes. I believe in a deity, rather...). :think:

[Quakester]

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.


Purgatory Repenting Believers Extreme
Level 1 Low
Level 2 High
Level 3 Low
Level 4 Very Low
Level 5 Moderate
Level 6 Very Low
Level 7 Moderate
Level 8 Moderate
Level 9 Low

[Solario]

Quake is officially the person to stalk if you're ever lost in Hell.

And yeah all the questions are loaded, I mean, there's not really a heaven option here. This is where in Hell you're going. And I think the God question is the Christian God. Atleast that's what I assumed.

[The Widowed]

Quake is officially the person to stalk if you're ever lost in Hell.
Sure he is...but I have to escape this blasted whirlwind first. Maybe Cleopatra will give me a push....

[Gold Rush]

Quake is officially the person to stalk if you're ever lost in Hell.



It could not have been any other way. All those kitten pictures...

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Gold Rush

[The Freudian Slip]

The whole "magic = evil" thing is one I never got. Oh okay, someone writes a fiction book about a teenager who rides brooms and has fantastic adventures and is a limey and that's evil skullduggery. Meanwhile, in another fiction book a man is casting lame spells like water to wine(I'd make it rum!) and one loaf of bread into fifty and a carp into a whale and it should be taken as a guidebook to life.

[TheImperial]

Good ole Dante.

Here's my scores:

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 - Limbo | Very High
Level 2 | Moderate
Level 3 | Low
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Very Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Low
Level 8- the Malebolge | Low
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very Low

[The Widowed]

The whole "magic = evil" thing is one I never got. Oh okay, someone writes a fiction book about a teenager who rides brooms and has fantastic adventures and is a limey and that's evil skullduggery. Meanwhile, in another fiction book a man is casting lame spells like water to wine(I'd make it rum!) and one loaf of bread into fifty and a carp into a whale and it should be taken as a guidebook to life.
One man's miracle is another man's sorcery. One man's god, good spirit or unearthly patron is another man's false idol or demon. ;)

For years I've figured that the only difference between prayer and magic is that magic is more assertive and unapologetic. With prayer, you say "Please, oh please, Great One, I beg of you, please in your mercy grant me victory over the heathen Mongols who even now come to storm our temple. How you grant this victory is to be judged and determined by you alone, for you are all great and good and powerful and perfect and eternal. And if you refuse to grant me this humble request, then I will surely die. But at least I shall die in your name and by your will. Thank you for letting me live this long, amen."

With magic, it's more like "Okay, Great One, it's like this. The Mongols are coming down here to kill your followers--myself included, plunder your gifts and put your sacred grove to the torch. I can and am willing to fight them off, but I need the strength of a bear, the toughness of a badger, the agility of a cat and enough sheer luck to avoid getting hit in the first place, I need the swiftness of an antelope and I need the accuracy of a hawk in order to put an arrow through a man's eye at a couple hundred yards. You're great, I know you can do this, make it happen. You want to keep the filthy Mongols out of your grove, don't you? So mote it be."

Then again, maybe that unflattering meekness is merely the Christian approach to prayer. With a terrifying god like Jehovah, it's easy to see why the Abrahamic faithful practically cringe when dealing with Him, and their prayers and supplications are infected by this dread.

Remember Conan's prayer to Crom? That was a pretty bad-ass prayer, wasn't it? :)

[The Widowed]

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the 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.

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | Very High
Level 3 | Very High
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | High
Level 8- the Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | High
So...are you an angry violent bastard or a gloomy one-man pity party? :P

[The Widowed]

so based off of this test, i will most definately burn in hell, :)
No, based off of this test you'll be stuck in a watery eternal mosh pit with a bunch of other naked people. Try to avoid getting kicked in the nuts. ;)

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.
*adds a little magical Gold Rush powder....*
In the third circle, you find yourself amidst eternal tropical rain, light, warm, and breezy. The gluttons are hot-tubbing here, lying in the stimulating mixture of effervescent bubbles and hot, swirling water. Because you consumed in excess, you greet your towel boy beneath the palm leaf cabana amidst the other souls that there play happily in the pure spring water. Cerebus, a canine guard noble and watchful with his three heads and sharp eyes, dwells in his doghouse. He growls and snaps at party crashers with his teeth and claws.
Ahhhh, that's much better. :)

[sheld0n]

The whole "magic = evil" thing is one I never got. Oh okay, someone writes a fiction book about a teenager who rides brooms and has fantastic adventures and is a limey and that's evil skullduggery. Meanwhile, in another fiction book a man is casting lame spells like water to wine(I'd make it rum!) and one loaf of bread into fifty and a carp into a whale and it should be taken as a guidebook to life.

Yeah, I think that book wouldn't be praised nearly as much if it wasn't for the author's popularity.


Then again, maybe that unflattering meekness is merely the Christian approach to prayer.

Funny, isn't it. If God is anything like how the Christians describe him, I can't imagine him enjoying the way humans lower themselves like that.
Kinda like in that scene in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when King Arthur recieves his mission from God. :D

[Solario]

One man's miracle is another man's sorcery. One man's god, good spirit or unearthly patron is another man's false idol or demon. ;)

[...]

Then again, maybe that unflattering meekness is merely the Christian approach to prayer. With a terrifying god like Jehovah, it's easy to see why the Abrahamic faithful practically cringe when dealing with Him, and their prayers and supplications are infected by this dread.

HAHAHAHAHA, best post this week.

A little religious bias here, but it's also to cement God's superiority to man, you're begging for help from above. If life has taught me anything it's that if you need something done, and done right, you need to do it yourself. Magic is complete self-reliance, prehaps to almost an arrogant degree. It's not about asking higher entities to do something, it's telling them to do something.
It's also a blame issue, because if you ask God to do something and he doesn't, then it's essentially his fault (even if it works into a larger scheme), where with magic it's more your own fault.

And what was it John Constantine told Alan Moore?.. "I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it."

[Meltman]

Exactly how tough IS a badger?

[The Freudian Slip]

It just makes me mad thinking over how Christianity did it's best to wipe out many other religions with far better and more interesting mythology than it. I mean, take a look at punishments from dieties.

The world was wicked so God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, essentially flooding the world. Now a worldwide flood is pretty neat, but in the end, cmon...it's just alot of water. And I'd think someone other than Noah had to have a boat...or live in the mountains...and two of every single animal aboard one boat? Even in mythology that seems farfetched and impossible.

Now, on the Greek side of things, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. His punishment? To be shackled to a mountain for all eternity while a hawk(or eagle, whatever bird it is) pecked out and ate his pancreas(or liver, whichever). The next day, his pancreas regnerates, and he gets it all over again. Or look at Tantalus! The man forced to stand in a pool of water underneath an apple tree, forever starving and thirsty. When he bends down to drink, or reaches to eat, the fruit or water always lingers just out of reach.

Now that, is divine punishment. The Greek pantheon always seemed like the mafia to me. :)

[The Widowed]

Exactly how tough IS a badger?
They're close cousins to wolverines, if that's any indication. ;)

Citing specific examples of badger toughness could result in civil law enforcement bodies questioning multiple members of my family and/or Montanan friends on animal cruelty charges.... :P

[The Widowed]

It just makes me mad thinking over how Christianity did it's best to wipe out many other religions with far better and more interesting mythology than it. I mean, take a look at punishments from dieties.
Speaking of which, is there anyone here who did not notice how much Dante's Inferno borrowed creatures and characters from Greek mythology in order to paint an interesting and colorful vision of a Judeo-Christian Hell?

...

You hit the nail on the head, Freud. :thumbup:

[Stalking Shadow]

You hit the nail on the head, Freud. :thumbup:

:lol: I wonder how many times the old doctor has heard that in his professional career.

Personally, I think the best prayer was one devised by a devout atheist named Douglas Adams, in my favorite book of his, Mostly Harmless


"It says in the brochure," said Arthur, pulling it out of his pocket and looking at it again, "that I can have a special prayer, individually tailored to me and my special needs."

"Oh all right," said the old man. "Here's a prayer for you. Got a pencil?"

"Yes," said Arthur.

"It goes like this. Let's see now: `Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decide not to know about. Amen.' That's it. It's what you pray silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open."

"Hmmm," said Arthur. "Well thank you --"

"There's another prayer that goes with it that's very important," said the old man, "so you'd better jot this down, too."

"Okay."

"It goes, `Lord, lord, lord...' It's best to put that bit in just in case. You can never be too sure. `Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.' And that's it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes from leaving out that last part."

[Noble]

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 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | Low
Level 3 | Low
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 | Low

Looks like Quake and I can team-up and get our sins washed away in the half the time.

[Solos]

It put me in level 6 aswell. Atr least i get to live in the city.

[The Widowed]

It put me in level 6 aswell. Atr least i get to live in the city.
But I bet making the rent each month is hell. :lol:

Yes, I said it. Punny old me. :D

[Knightward]

But I bet making the rent each month is hell. :lol:

Yes, I said it. Punny old me. :D
*burns, melts, shatters, and crumbles to dust simultaniously*

Ow.