Level of Hell Test
 

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

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

Level 2

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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.
Edited to add the description of my new home.

Puppies, robust and otherwise
 

I did. I came home at lunch every day to let him out, but if you've got a yard that might work too. I can't recommend this book highly enough -- I just lent my copy to neighbors with a puppy, and they've been raving about it too.


And, in other news, I thought this place looked familiar:

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.

Level of Hell Test
 

I am very upset. Apparently, I am too virtuous for the basement, as I am stuck on only the 8th Level of Hell:


"The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 8 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Eighth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!"


Eighth 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.

Korean plastic surgery before and after
 

I thought some here might find this interesting. There is also an accompanying article describing the popularity of plastic surgery in South Korea.


http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers...ore_after.html

Spree: a few mildly disturbing before pictures

The article: http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers.../plastics.html

Level of Hell Test
 

I am also in the second level of hell.

I scored "high" on lustful and violent and "very low" on gluttonous, prodigal and avaricious, and heretics. Everything else is low or moderate.

The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 2 times. The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Second Level of Hell!

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.

Levels of Hell
 

I'm a lustful, wrathful heretic condemned to the fifth level of hell. :eek:

Luckily, as a godless unbeliever, I'm fairly confident I'm not actually going there.

Dante's Inferno
 

I guess it's not enought to be a good person. Atheists fair poorly in hell:

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.

Fashion Causes Political Crisis in S.Korea
 

I know DS has already mentioned it, but, as I have explained ad nauseum, I agree and disagree.

"Slut" is a term of endearment, a compliment, and a short-hand term for the type of women men should reward with their presence, interest and praise, while non-sluts should be shunned. ostracized and reviled. As men, we can best change female behavior by encouraging the behavior we like (i.e., putting out sooner, with fewer Rules, for less time and money invested and without "love" or similar crap) and discouraging the behavior we don't (i.e. prudish, prim, chaste, celibate, modest, good girl, etc.)

98% of these behaviors are not biologic or genetic, but cultural and learned. As such, they can be changed. For example, next time you are in a conversation with a girl (at a party, bar, wherever) who says something like "I've been dating him for three months and we haven't had sex," respond with "You frigid, manipulative bitch" or "That's bullshit." If you are uncomfortable with that level of confrontation, just walk away with an aside like "I don't want to continue to talk to someone who holds your beliefs" or whatever you would feel comfortable saying to, say, Pat Buchanan if you found out you were talking to him at a party.

Less (I would have linked to my prior missives on the subject, but Infirmation has been down for about 36 hours now) inSF

Fashion Causes Political Crisis in S.Korea
 

I disagree. The simple fact that we're having this argument leads me to believe that either (i) everyone does not know of the word's historical baggage or (ii) everyone does not agree that such historical baggage is attached to the word (as it is so clearly attached to the word "nigger"). Now, on the second point, I wouldn't mind being corrected because I can't possibly begin to outline the history of the word. I'm only going on personal experience. Everyone's personal experience with regard to the word "nigger" is the same.

Impressive gymnastics. But I don't think you're arguing that a woman with a severe attitude problem who has just been called a "cunt" stands on the same ground as a black person with a severe attitude problem who has just been called "nigger." In fact, please give me a scenario where "nigger" means (or its user's intention is) anything other than a racial slur specifically intended to reference our peculiar institution and subsequent history.

The point is until you can outline the word's etymology to sufficiently support your argument, I will assume that the meaning you say always attaches is actually not always necessarily there.

I'm guessing this might be difficult (although not impossible) because a quick look at Dictionary.com gives me the following definitions:

cunt
n. Vulgar Slang
1. The female genital organs.
2. Sexual intercourse with a woman.
3. Offensive. Used as a disparaging term for a woman.
Used as a disparaging term for a person one dislikes or finds extremely disagreeable. [emphasis added]

I don't think I am. And the very definition of the word says otherwise. So, unless you can prove how nuts I actually am (not in general, but limited to this argument), I'll stick with "crazy."

TM

[Edited to fix parenthetical]

Level of Hell Test
 

Well, you beat me, though I'm highly rated in the malebolge, too.

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

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

American Idol Review
 

Thanks for bringing this current--I did miss it when scrolling through. WRT 205--my house believes that 205 may be Ruben's ideal weight. Ryan Seacrest could fit his entire body in one of Ruben's pant legs. Hell, Ryan Seacrest could fit his entire body in one of Kimberly's pant legs. (This is a slam on Ryan, not Kimberly).

This is probably a JFF explanation at this point, but 205 is the Alabama area code where Ruben's mother lives.

Level of Hell Test
 

Fuck. I only made level two. High lust, low religious conviction. I need a recount.

Level of Hell Test
 

I'm a Level 2 also, which means there is a ring of truth to those who have told me "there is a special place in hell for you."

To which I respond, "Well, at least I'll see most of my friends there."

spookyfish

Level of Hell Test
 

I wouldn't be too upset. Since the 9th circle is restricted to Judas, Brutus, and Cassius getting chewed on by the three faces of Satan, you've sunk as low as you can go.

Even(congratulations!)Odds

Level of Hell Test
 

Me too, but I noted that the 8th level was considered "extreme," while the 9th was only "high." The 9th apparently is saved for the Treacherous and I guess we are too loyal to friends and family for that, although we might bugger them.

Another Heretic
 

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 Who are sent there? Score
Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
Level 1 Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Moderate
Level 2 Lustful High
Level 3 Gluttonous High
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 High
Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers High
Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Moderate


At least I get to be in a city. I need to practice my doleful sighing.

Damn. Seventh Level. If nothing else, I guess being religious must help you do better on tests like this. (Not enough. I will remain ungodded.)

At least I get to drop hot burning rocks over the edge onto Slave's head during free time.

Another Heretic
 

Is part of this curse having my period all the time?

I'm noting that some levels have celebrities like Cleopatra and Judas -- but not my level. Cleopatra must have been a heretic, why isn't she down here?

Fashion Causes Political Crisis in S.Korea
 

Less,

A better reply might be "He's clearly gay" or "That's awful - how goddamn selfish of him!"

S(I find your points intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter)D

PS: That was pretty goddamn funny. I know it was uninentional, but you just eerily channeled the early 80s voice of PJ O'Rourke, a la "Modern Manners".

5th Level of Hell
 

Wait a minute, I demand a recount. If I'm both lustful and wrathful, why am I stuck at crappy level 5? Level 2 at least promises that "sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions", which actually sounds kind of hot (for, y'know, an eternity of condemned misery).

Level 5, by contrast, is a total drag:
"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."

Damn. I'd better start being nicer and just stick with the lust and heresy instead.

Puppies, robust and otherwise
 

We introduced dog #2 while dog #1 was in his middle-age years. Ritzspouse stops home at lunchtime to let both outside and we have not encountered any problems.

One note - we are at the point where dog #1 is starting to decline in health and this is going to be a problem because whenever dog #1 is absent (vet appointments, etc.), dog #2 mopes around and refuses to eat. I believe that we are going to have to introduce dog #3 so that dog #2 will have a companion once dog #1 passes. If puppy gets very attached to Displaced Dog, you may be in the same situation in 5 or 6 years because puppy will never have gotten used to being an only dog.

Level of Hell Test
 

ABBA joins the majority of FBers in the second level of hell.

I bet I could pull a few strings to move up a few notches into Paradiso.

Levels of Hell
 

I am highly lustful and somewhat gluttonous, according to this test. But I am such a goody-two-shoes in other areas that I have only managed to land myself in the second level of hell, which doesn't sound like an entirely terrible place.

Hanging out for eternity with the lustful -- sounds an awful lot like the FB.

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.

Levels of Hell
 

Surprising. Apparently, "malebolge" is Renaissance Italian for "bad spellers."

I think I wound up at Level 8 because I'm an unrepentant liar and flatterer. The test tries to match you up with the damned of similar proclivities, so don't be too upset that you're "only" at Level 2. It's not about the level; it's about the company you'll be keeping.

Ladies, Do Not Do This
 

Sure. I've seen pics of his wife. I'd rim her.

Another Heretic
 

Actually, the curse comes when your period stops.

Another Heretic
 

She's in the lust section with me. I was looking back, and I got "very high" on four of the levels. 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9. I probably answered one more question for two than the others, so that's why I got in there. It's nice to know that I'd be welcome all over hell though.

Hallelujah
 

Wooohoo! Somehow, I am saved - 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.


C(grandma will be so relieved)deuced

Puppies, robust and otherwise
 

Yay, puppy! I got my pup while in law school and started working full time when the dog was about a year old, so I didn't have to juggle housetraining and work. But a single colleague just got a puppy and he has found the time demands to be a little stressful but not unmanageable. He hired a dogwalker to help when the daily lunchtime runs became too much of a strain.

One thing that may raise a problem is crating or blocking off the puppy while the Displaced Dog roams free. We keep both our dogs gated in one large room in our house; if one were in and one were out the gated dog would be quite restless. If this is consistently the puppy's situation from the beginning, however, it will probably work out fine. I don't imagine the Displaced Dog would take to well to being gated in the kitchen with the upstart.

You might also want to think about your plan to transition from crate to bathroom to kitchen to full house access. Perhaps that will be too much change for the pup? What about crated-in-kitchen, gated-in-kitchen (with crate available), run of house?

FWIW, I don't think breed matters at all with respect to how the Displaced Dog will react. As you suggest it's about the temperament/dominance. My two dogs are very different breeds and sizes, one considers itself the alpha and the other is happy to be beta, gamma, omega, whatever, depending on how many other dogs are around. They make a very happy, if odd looking, pair.

r(puppies are good!)p

Ladies, Do Not Do This
 

I thought you meant you would do things behind YOUR wife's back. Like rim HER. NTTAWWT.

Level of Hell Test
 

See you there.

Hallelujah
 

While you're up in heaven, could you please ask God to stop being such a judgmental sadist?

Hallelujah
 

You must not masterbate enough.

n(second level with all you other lusters)cs

To hell in a handbasket
 

Level 2. If I didn't lie so much, I might have made it to level 3 or 4.

Hallelujah
 

Or maybe I don't need to.

Or maybe they don't ask the right questions.

C(can't wait to party with Peter)deuced

Hallelujah
 

You could "party with peter" more here, but then you'd be in Level 2 with the rest of us.

sf

Level of Hell Test
 

Well I don't know how I did it, but I ended up with you all in the eighth circle. Colour me a little surprised.

I guess Slave will run the hockey pool.

Fashion Causes Political Crisis in S.Korea
 

Y'all non-sports-junkies probably won't remember this, but during the early 90s there was a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. The Sports Center crew had a lot of fun with that one. Other good voluntary Dicks:

Dick Martin (from Rowan and Martin)
Dick van Dyke

and the best of all:

Dick Broadhead (Yale Administrator)

str8

Fashion Causes Political Crisis in S.Korea
 

I always secretly enjoyed the name Dick Butkiss.

Ladies, Do Not Do This
 

Not while she's using stupid fucking language like "fabu." So, tell me, little girl, how's your vocabulary?