# What level of Hell are YOU going to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155 "2003-12-05T14:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/1 "2003-12-05T14:51:08Z")
You have died… _Oh No_! Worse, you’re headed for HELL! What level of eternal damnation are you headed to? You can find out by taking the [Dante’s Inferno Test](http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv) For me, it’s a tie of **High** between the 4th level (prodigal and the avaricious) and the 8th level (fraudulence and malice). Enjoy Grace ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/2 "2003-12-05T15:13:55Z")
well Level 2 almost had me but apparently i’m more of a Level 8 person. Woo! ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/3 "2003-12-05T15:23:00Z")
I’ve been banished to the Sixth Level of Hell – the City of Dis. As a heretic (atheist) this isn’t too surprising. “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.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/4 "2003-12-05T15:24:11Z")
Level Five for me, “for the wrathful and gloomy.” “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.” —Looks like I better bring my water wings! ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/5 "2003-12-05T15:31:00Z")
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis! Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level | Score Purgatory | Very Low Level 1 - Limbo | Low Level 2 | High Level 3 | High Level 4 | High Level 5 | Very High Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High Level 7 | High Level 8- the Malebolge | Very High Level 9 - Cocytus | Low Level descriptions: [http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html](http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html) ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/6 "2003-12-05T15:42:01Z")
Level 2 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/7 "2003-12-05T15:48:13Z")
Arg! I made it into Purgatory! I really need to get out more… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/8 "2003-12-05T15:53:30Z")
OMG, am I in deep shit! I scored “very high” on no less than \*\*four \*\*levels: Lustful, Gluttonous, Heretics and Violent. I honestly don’t know where the “violent” came from, but the others are self-explanatory. The only “very low” I got was Repenting Believers. They got that right on both counts. ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/9 "2003-12-05T15:57:13Z")
Level 2, with Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, and of course Indygrrl. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/10 "2003-12-05T16:10:38Z")
Hmm… better stock up on the Zoloft, relaxation tapes, and copies of “I’m OK, You’re OK”: my “Gloomy” mode has put me in a “Very High” likelihood of Level 5 with **Eve**. Next is a “High” tie for either Level 2 (Lustful. Damn right) and for making it successfully to Purgatory. Surprisingly I got Very Low on Heresy! ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/11 "2003-12-05T16:16:13Z")
Guess I, too, will get to meet Cleo and Helen in Level 2. As a person who likes wind and stormy weather, I guess I’ve been programmed for Level 2 all along. ---
**Author:** ![jon\_pi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jon\_pi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jon_pi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/12 "2003-12-05T16:21:37Z")
Level 6 City of Dis… figured. Extreme on Heretic (Level 6) and Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderer (Level 8), Very High on Lustful (Level 2), and Violent (Level 7). Nobody else scored an Extreme? Whimps. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/13 "2003-12-05T16:24:33Z")
Purgatory * * * 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. Obviously too lazy to work my way into Heaven, so hope I have good company here!! ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/14 "2003-12-05T16:27:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Yep, I figured I was off to Level 6 with the Heretics, but no… apparently I am a Virtuous Non-Believer, unfit for Heaven, unworthy of punishment. Cool! I’m off to chat with So-Crates. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/15 "2003-12-05T16:28:24Z")
Didn’t we already _do_ this thread? 3 months ago or so? ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/16 "2003-12-05T16:30:44Z")
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell! Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level | Score Purgatory | High Level 1 - Limbo | Low Level 2 | High Level 3 | Moderate Level 4 | Very Low Level 5 | Low Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low Level 7 | High Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate Level 9 - Cocytus | Low ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/17 "2003-12-05T16:35:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Didn’t we already _do_ this thread? 3 months ago or so? \*\* Yup, and I am still in the same level. I’d hoped I’d have graduated to an even worse level by now . . . ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/18 "2003-12-05T16:49:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Didn’t we already do this thread? 3 months ago or so? Sorry guys, I must have missed it. ::cowers in corner:: ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/19 "2003-12-05T16:51:01Z")
Level 6. I feel such a sense of achievement 😉 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155/20 "2003-12-05T17:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > ## First Level of Hell - 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. > Here is how you matched up against all the levels: > > Purgatory Repenting Believers Low > Level 1 - Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers Very High > Level 2 Lustful High > Level 3 Gluttonous Low > Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Low > Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low > Level 6 - The City of Dis Heretics Low > Level 7 Violent Low > Level 8- the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate > Level 9 - Cocytus Treacherous Very low I must say, this sounds like a pretty decent place, I am in very good company. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-level-of-hell-are-you-going-to/217155.md?page=2)