What fresh hell is this?

[pameladean]

I couldn't resist this; I mean, it's literary.

It's clear from my Friends list that, as I always suspected, I will be in very good company in Hell.

I had a lot of trouble with the quiz and got a fair amount of gleeful grim ironic pleasure out of it too. I don't think I was very consistent. I know what I think sin is, and I know what the test conceives sin to be for its purposes, and there is not very much of a match there. I didn't always manage to stay in the fictional parameters, or out of them.

I am sorry if my next remark offends anybody, but my primary feeling as I finished was to think, "I am so glad I'm not a Christian." I suppose I should be more properly glad that I am not a medieval Italian Catholic.

Here you go:

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

Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.html "

Pamela

Comments

[branwynelf.livejournal.com]

Yah I had some trouble with questions that the basic question was fine, but the example bothered me like "Some people, such as Nostradamus, are able to predict future events." or the one about flashy sportscars. I mean who in mediaeval Italy had a flashy sportscar or an SUV?!

[darcydodo]

It's good to know that when I arrive in Hell one of these days, I'll be in the company of authors whom I admire.

These memes truly do spread like wildfire, which is fantastic. (Someone compared it to SARS, though: a slightly less savory comparison.)

(I'm sorry, I've added you to my friends list because I was delighted to find that you have a livejournal; I hope you don't object to my taking this liberty!)

[pameladean]

No, not a bit -- pleased to have you.

Pamela

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Heh. I feel the same as you.

[theatresm.livejournal.com]

I myself was vastly amused -- because I thought I'd be going right to the bottom with Satan -- to wind up only in Level 1 -- "Virtuous Nonbeliever." I believe in God, but don't go to church, and I had to admit to "Pagan beliefs," although those involve my philosophy about the environment, not any Wiccan-ism or pagan observance on my part.

*grins* I guess that means I'd be last in the Inquisition's line to the burning stake.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

In order to go to the very bottom, you have to be a betrayer; and more than that, you have to betray one who has been a benefactor to you. (The ultimate punishment was to be stuck in one of Satan's three mouths and chewed on by him for eternity -- that was reserved for Judas Iscariot, Cassius, and Brutus. [From which you can infer Dante's attitude towards Julius Caesar.])

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Glad to have you in the crowd!

I wonder why so many of my friends rate as Heretics?

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of surprised that I made Purgatory, since I admitted to a lot of things the test would consider sinful, (though if I haven't done it in the last dozen years I don't consider it something I do...) I had trouble with a lot of questions that depended on how one interpreted them (what do you mean by 'worship'? 'believe'? 'moral?' Do you mean 'ever' or 'generally'? I wonder why so many of my friends rate as Heretics? It can't be because they're not Christian, since I don't consider myself especially Christian either, though I am a Deist.

Re: I wonder why so many of my friends rate as Heretics?

[pameladean]

I don't know about that particular question; it may depend on whether one is not-Christian or aggressively atheistic, which when I took the test I sure was. But there is something funny about the test anyway. Several people I know ended up in Level 7 for not much visible reason, and I noticed that a lot of us in 6 have High ratings for "Violent." I have, in my case, NO IDEA where that came from, unless from being gleefully atheistic. I didn't answer the questions about anger and whether some people just deserve to die in a violent fashion, and I didn't answer the questions about suicide in the affirmative.

Pamela

Re: I wonder why so many of my friends rate as Heretics?

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I got a high rating for violence, too. The only things I can think of that might have contributed to that were thinking that some people deserve to die (even though I have no intention of giving them what they deserve) and having once attempted suicide. (If you can call it an attempt when you fall asleep in the middle.)

I have more to say about the questionable questions used, but already said it on my own journal page: see skylarker

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Nobody likes me, nobody wants to be in Hell with me. It's too sad.

People you won't see

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

God's Skallywags

The God of Scribes looked down and saw
The bitter band of seven,
Who had outraged his holy law
And lost their hope of Heaven:
Came Villon, petty thief and pimp,
And obscene Baudelaire,
And Byron with his lecher limp,
And Poe with starry stare.

And Wilde who lived his hell on earth,
And Burns, the bawdy bard,
And Francis Thompson, from his birth
Malevolently starred. . . .
As like a line of livid ghosts
They stared to Paradise,
The galaxy of Heaven's hosts
Looked down in soft surmise.

Said God: "You bastards of my love,
You are my chosen sons;
Come, and I will set you high above
These merely holy ones.
Your sins you've paid in gall and grief,
So to these radient skies,
Seducer, drunkard, dopester, theif,
Immortally arise.

"I am your Father, fond and just,
And all your folly see;
Your bestiality and lust
I also know in me.
You did the task I gave you. . .
Arise and sit beside
My Son, the best belove'd, who
Was also crucified.

-- Robert Service

Re: People you won't see

[pameladean]

Wow, this is just like one of those optical-illusion thingies that look like a goblet, or two faces, depending. One moment it makes me all teary, and the next I think, No, absolutely no way, all the premises are flawed and that's a perfectly despicable way to run a universe. Thus the remnants of a semi-Christian upbringing. I'll go with the second reaction, however, overall.

Pamela

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Well -- you know me -- my first thought was, "But Biblically speaking, there's no such thing as Purgatory." And my second was, "Where on earth did Dante get these weird ideas about hell?"

So, I can join you in saying that I am glad I am not a medieval Italian Catholic, at least. In those days Bible-reading types had a decided tendency to get burned at the stake, drowned or otherwise slaughtered... so I guess I would have been in the circle with the heretics as far as Dante was concerned, even if the quiz wasn't quite so picky.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I got Dis too. I hear it's very nice this time of year. We could live next door to each other and visit for tea.

I'm also glad I'm not a Christian, and fudged on the concept of sin.