Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! 23 Apr 2008 Or, “Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott” 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 (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3 (Gluttonous) Moderate Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) Low Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Moderate Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High Level 7 (Violent) High Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Very High Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) Low Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test Hat tip to Thinking for Free. History Humor Religion
Evolution The Shandyan dilemma 18 Jan 201219 Jan 2012 Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe detective series among many others, has died. This is a partial post I started some time back, so I thought I’d post it as is. In Recalled to Life, Reginald Hill has one of his two protagonists, Pascoe, interview an ex-nanny who… Read More
Humor All gorillas are Sigourney Weaver 13 Sep 2007 As a silverback, I am always intrigued when you humans start to debate our nature, or put us in silly films (not that the one with Sigourney was silly – any film she’s in is fine by me. We don’t get much film out here in the wild, anyway). But,… Read More
Evolution More journalistic idiocy about evolution 9 Apr 20104 Oct 2017 This, from SBS World News, a usually relatively reliable public news service in Australia, on their report on the new hominid. I sent them this message: I have to criticise the moronic commentary in the World News tonight – No, the lack of transitional fossils hasn’t been a problem for… Read More
I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level. Probably not violent enough for the lower levels. And I thought I was a Virtuous Non-Believer (okay, maybe not).
Susan wrote: I find myself wallowing in the Sixth Level. So I will finally get to meet you Susan, as I too have been condemned to the Sixth Level. I not sure whether it’s my masturbatory behaviour or my suicidal tendencies that brought me so low but at least I now have proof positive that I am more evil than Mr Wilkins.
Read ’em and weep: Level 7 And to think that being a mother, a hairdresser, and an all around good person (who just happens to be an atheist and has dabbled in same-sex excursions) is going to have fire rain down on my body while the woe gushes forth from my eyes, all while hanging from a tree with poison fruit. And they say religion isn’t fiction.
What I don’t get is: how come Wilkins, Haubrich and I all have secondary peaks in Fraudulence, Violence and Wrath & Gloom? OK, that last probably reflects a diagnosed mood disorder (for John & me, don’t know about Mike), but I think I’m reasonably honest and peaceful.
The test is incorrect. As an atheist who has heard the Good News, I should be in one of the lower levels—Dis, I think—where I get to sleep in a burial urn when I am not being harangued. Instead, I was placed in limbo with the ancient virtuous pagans, who lived before Christ. Note that the concept of “Limbo” was devised as a place to put people—like unbaptised infants—who defied any logical means of categorizing sinners. Current catholic teaching holds that Limbo does not exist as a place, but the concept still does, and still shows the absurdity of the Xtian afterlife.
Male, level 7, seeks companionable female for romantic excursions on the scenic River of Boiling Blood and Harpy-watching in Suicide Forest. Blasphemers and Sodomites welcome; naked bodies,woe-gushing optional.
Interesting test. I was classified as a non-believer and heretic. Does it say anywhere on the site exactly how the scores are calculated? (I do realize most of the questions line up with a specific level, just wondering about how each answer is weighed.)
I finally found I place where I could take the test, and I made it to purgatory. And as I said earlier, hell is purgatorial anyway.