Dante’s "Inferno" is an intriguing poem, because Dante’s Hell isn’t
just fire and devils with pitchforks. He works out appropriate
punishments for particular sins. Flatterers, for example, are
submerged in excrement right to their chins and they have to be very
careful when they move, lest they....Appropriate, because in their
earthly lives their words weren’t worth s**t.
Hypocrites walk around in lead garments all silvery on the outside.
Adulterers? They're in Hell's vestibule, blown around by little breezes. (Why? Cheating in the service of your groin' s momentary little spasms is dumb.) But sexual sins don't count nearly as much as flattery...or giving bad advice.. or pretending to be religious fr personal gain.
Those who knowingly give false counsel...real low. I mean REAL low. Think Chalabi and so on et cetera.
Here’s a little questionnaire. It tells you where you’ll spend
eternity if Dante has things down right.
I landed on the purgatory. I'm a good boy, my mom was right. Donating money to help the poor was worth every single penny...and I'm only poorer a dime.
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Originally posted by nyguy: I landed on the purgatory. I'm a good boy, my mom was right. Donating money to help the poor was worth every single penny...and I'm only poorer a dime.
Did you donate to the Salvation Army Santa set up in front of Target?
It sent me to the second level as well, funny thing is I'm already there!
"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."
Welcome to winter in Wyoming!!!
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759
The schizoid and schizotypal I can kind of see, but I'm having a bit of a hard time seeing how I'm narcissistic. I don't think I'm better than anyone else or anything, I KNOW I am!
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"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
- Christopher Reeve
Oh well. I thought I was an ok guy. Bah WHAT DOES DANTE KNOW!!!
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
Hey Og - Welcome to our little group of heretics. We have meetings every Thursday night where we play a little Gin Rummy for shots of tequila. Yeah, we're a good group, we enjoy ourselves without getting too violent unless you count those violent dry heaves of BamaDave's last Friday morning.
One more thing, new guy buys the next 5th.
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Today's mighty oak was once just some nut who held his ground!
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