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[tree_and_leaf]

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

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

Take the Dante's Inferno Test

Of course, this is dafter than most of the personality type quizzes, because on the orthodox Catholic model, if you are die a penitent Christian then you ought to go to Purgatory whatever you've done (unless, of course, you are a saint and a candidate for instant heaven). I don't think it asked any Christianity-specific questions, either, so on that basis Vergil really ought to be in heaven (Poor Vergil!)

I also think I come out too virtuous sounding on this, though not in a very attractive way... Maybe I should have been more lustful. It's the most cuddly of the sins....

Comments

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I got sent to Limbo, which is probably where I belong.

You do come across as remarkaly virtuous - I am too embarrassed to list my scores here, though I was most intrigued to see that according to this meme, I am more violent than gluttonous - which anyone who knows me would know at once is just not the case.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yeah, I'm not sure how that happened; it's not really very accurate, and I suspect I may have clicked the wrong button by accident on some questions... Either that, or my vices are too recondite to figure here!

You're certainly in good company in Limbo, though I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone - but it's an honourable place to end up.

The sex questions were pretty odd, too: I'm not sure why oral and anal sex get bracketed together, since Dante does not mention oral sex IIRC (and I can't think of any mentions of oral sex in the mediaeval period). Anal sex, of course, ought to put one in Malbowges with the sodomites (there is no distiction, I believe, between whether it is done with a chap or a woman in the mediaeval conception of the term)

... Sorry; I once had to give a paper on mediaeval attitudes to homosexuality; very interesting topic, though you have to wade through a lot of rather poisonous sermons..

[sophysduckling.livejournal.com]

(there is no distiction, I believe, between whether it is done with a chap or a woman in the mediaeval conception of the term)

there was also no distinction between oral and anal sex (cf. the American military's old definition), which might be why they're mentioned together.

[tree_and_leaf]

I could make a sarcastic comment about what that says about basic grasp of anatomy, but I think that could only end up being too unedyfing to contemplate...

I can sort of follow the logic - but it's still a bit, well, shall we say counterintuitive?

[sophysduckling.livejournal.com]

maybe it's only counterintuitive because the definition has changed to mean anal sex.

*checks*

oh! The definition hasn't actually changed. It still includes oral sex and apparently beastiality. (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sodomy)

[tree_and_leaf]

Curiouser and curiouser.... Of course, it's the 'unnatural' aspect; however, I suspect that in practical terms the definition has changed, because everyone just thinks of the anal sex.

Wonder what the OED says?

Of course, there is a theory that the crime of the men of Sodom was nothing to do with sex, but that's a whole other question...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Fellow Limbo-dweller here. We could have a picnic.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, if you believe Dante's description, it's probably a nice place for one, as long as you bring along a cd player or something to drown out the general cries of 'alas, alas'.... Or perhaps a lute, if you can find someone who can play it!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Limbo - the company's good, and the punishments relatively light.

A picnic sounds like a good way to pass the time. We could ask the patriarchs along as well - it never hurts to be neighbourly.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

If I could also bring along “Learn to Play the Lute” I think I could be occupied for eternity! But given that my next option is Level 6, Heretics, perhaps I should show willing to put up with the cries of “Alas.”

[tree_and_leaf]

... yes, Limbo is definitely the better option, with or without 'Luteplaying for dummies'.....

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

If you play, I'll sing. I know quite a lot of lute songs (my mum owns a lute). And a surprising number of lute songs do contain the word "alas", so we should fit right in.