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Total Members Voted: 49

[Xantalos]

Dante described the events of Purgatory to be labors rather than punishment, as they are engaged by the souls there willingly in order to burn away their sins.

Mmm, point, although to me it seems a matter of semantics if anything.

And then Paradiso, where you sing.

[mcclay]

Dante described the events of Purgatory to be labors rather than punishment, as they are engaged by the souls there willingly in order to burn away their sins.

Mmm, point, although to me it seems a matter of semantics if anything.

And then Paradiso, where you sing.

Is that really all he said you do?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Pretty much. The souls in Paradiso are all pure of sinful desire, i.e. all they want to do is sing praises to god for the rest of time.

Can you tell it was a different time?

[Loud Whispers]

Who ho sinners! City of Dis for me. I would have enjoyed limbo with all the boss philosophers and writers like Virgil and Aristotle, but hey this level is pretty cool too. Or rather, hot. Also what's with the furies being angry? I thought they had embraced civil law. Ah well, should make for some fun debates at least.

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Level   Who are sent there?   Score
Purgatory    Repenting Believers   Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo    Virtuous Non-Believers   High  <--- Ah crap, just missed it by a hair's breadth.
Level 2    Lustful   Low
Level 3    Gluttonous   Moderate
Level 4    Prodigal and Avaricious   Very Low
Level 5    Wrathful and Gloomy   Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis    Heretics   Very High
Level 7    Violent   Low
Level 8 - The Malebolge    Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers   Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus    Treacherous   Low

[Xantalos]

Pretty much the same for me.
It must suck for those guys in coffins down there forever.

[Frumple]

Pretty much. The souls in Paradiso are all pure of sinful desire, i.e. all they want to do is sing praises to god for the rest of time.

Can you tell it was a different time?

Heh. Yeah, that was one of the things that's always bothered me about the Christian afterlife myth. Apparently if you do good and get into heaven, God rewards you by stripping part of your soul away so that you're no longer capable of feeling anything but love for Him. No pain, or the capacity to feel pain, no negative emotions or the capacity for negative emotions, no empathy with those under the effect of either or the capacity to feel such empathy, etc., so forth, so on. From what I remember of the wording it simply entails that upon being assimilated into heaven you're no longer capable, at all, of experiencing evil in any form.

At the very least in hell you remain something still approaching human. To reach heaven is to be reduced to a one-dimensional shadow of what you once were. That's pretty damn terrifying for the supposed Good End.

[Hubris Incalculable]

That sounds, so, so much nicer than purgatory.  If being pagan gets me a better afterlife than I demand a refund!  Seriously, heaven better have 77^77 virgins or whatever it is.  Hanging out with Socrates and Aristotle for eternity sounds awesome.

77⁷⁷ virgins=18188037387806198379277339915556929647807403283187048631478337739929618787870634227045716719924575689062274471430368865388203540672666042530996797 virgins.

 

[Zangi]

That sounds, so, so much nicer than purgatory.  If being pagan gets me a better afterlife than I demand a refund!  Seriously, heaven better have 77^77 virgins or whatever it is.  Hanging out with Socrates and Aristotle for eternity sounds awesome.

77⁷⁷ virgins=18188037387806198379277339915556929647807403283187048631478337739929618787870634227045716719924575689062274471430368865388203540672666042530996797 virgins.

 

At some point, God is just going to have to use teens and children... and that is per person?

[Max White]

Unless it is wine bottles.
I mean an unopened wine bottle is a virgin wine bottle, and they do talk about wine a lot in a lot of holy books. Perhaps heaven is just a really fancy booze up?

[werty892]

Its really a huge college frat party.


"WOooooooooooo, welcome to heaven man, here is your 7⁷ wine bottles, lets go check out those virgins over there. You see dat ass?"

[Lagslayer]

Its really a huge college frat party.


"WOooooooooooo, welcome to heaven man, here is your 7⁷ wine bottles, lets go check out those virgins over there. You see dat ass?"

Instant head canon.

[misko27]

Why must it always be virgins though? Wassup wit dat man?


And what if you are female? Are there male virgins? That's sad.

[Zangi]

Why must it always be virgins though? Wassup wit dat man?


And what if you are female? Are there male virgins? That's sad.

Well, maybe females were promised something else?  *shrug*

Society had a much more patriarchal outlook back then?

[mcclay]

Man singing forever sucks. I like hell a hell of a lot better.




 

[Aptus]

Heh heh heh, this should be fun.

Sin Test:
Your sin has been measured. You have committed many sins, but Lust is the mortal sin that has done you in. Just below, discover your full sinful breakdown and learn what it is about you that codemns you to hell.

Greed:    Very High    
 
Gluttony:    High    
 
Wrath:    Medium    
 
Sloth:    Medium    
 
Envy:    Medium    
 
Lust:     Very High    
 
Pride:    High    
 
Circle of Hell: (I think I have done this before, way back.)
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
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