Dante's Inferno Test. Options

[The Wolf]

Dante's inferno test.

I would go to the first level of he--hope-you-moderators-don't-mind-using-in-these-circumstances-ll, 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.

Don't take this too seriously.

This post has been edited by The Wolf: Nov 4 2005, 05:16 PM

[Red]

Level 8- 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.

Hehe, only doomed beat me. I think mine was less in the hipicrites and such and more because of my pagen-esque beliefs. I've just never saw a need to tell some preacher who is "ever so much holier than me" my sins when I could just speak to god itself. Yeah, you heard me. I believe in god as the creation, not creator of life.

Some people think I hate religion, but I actually am the quite opposite. Anything that brings people together, on their will, raises spirits and believes in someone or thing that isn't opinion or racially based is amazing in my eyes. The religions I do dislike force people to do things, are based upon the preacher and not the religion and look down upon others.