December 27, 2003

• Incidentally, here my religion (I don't know how to insert images, unfortunately. Maybe someone can tell me how that's done): Mahayana Buddhism
• Secular Humanism. Let's get some debate going... The choices aren't very good. Take, for example: [i]No God or supreme force. Or, not sure. Or, not important.[/i] The first is a positive assertion. The second is agnosticism, and the third would be a deistic stance. Yet this is a single choice. This test is flawed, as was expected.
• Nooo! Wrong brackets again. P.S. pyrrthon1, Images disabled here.
• Hmm, I seem to be Mahayana Buddhist also.
• 100% Unitarian Universalism 99% Liberal Quaker Which makes sense. I've been going to Quaker meeting for a couple of years now, take something of a universalist stance vis a vis other religions, and actively read a variety of works on religion from all over the spectrum (although I've been concentrating on Eastern religions, the writings of the Quakers, and liberal Biblical criticism for a while now).
• guh. I came out non-theist, which is represented by the depressed icon of middle age Woody Allen who can barely support the weight of his head. Anyway, I hate online tests like this -- I always wind up saying "well, what if I...", or poking holes in the test like Gyan. I care more about conversation than classification, I guess.
• Why can't everyone just worship Me as they did in times gone by? Unfortunately, that "Cause the eventual heat death of the Universe" button was just too damn tempting.
• I don't dislike such tests, boo, but often find it amusing to try and see how many different 'identifications' I can achieve. (So far, I've encompassed two sorts of Buddhism and Taoism, but can't seem to set my head aright for labelment as a Jain.) Guess my turning it into a game stems from a deepseated inability on my part to accept the validity of any such quick and dirty test's results, since people are so much more complex than this sort of thing is able to indicate. Pez' solution is a fine one, too.
• 1. Non-theist (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (94%) Heh, It works for me. And I prefer to be represented by depressed middle-aged Woody Allen than by any zealous 'bright'. Pez - what kind of after-life benefits do you offer? I'm willing to sell my faith to the best bidder.
• Pez - what kind of after-life benefits do you offer? I'm willing to sell my faith to the best bidder. I'll go one better: Pez, what during-life benefits are you offering? Check is waiting to be mailed. Maybe we could start one of those LendingTree.com kinda service: Have upto 4 religions make you an offer. When religions compete for your faith, everyone wins.
• There are a couple of other interesting religious quizlets on this popup-crazy site. I like Is Niqaab for You? (where "You are a niqaabi, Alhumdulillah" - now I know) and the Taoist School Selector (where I am a "Lay follower of Quanzhen"). I like the specialized quizlets because of their abtruse questions, questions not germane to my personal experience. Do you feel exposed and showing too much with just jilbab and khimar? Um, yes! I mean, no. I mean, um, blue!
• *succumbs* ...I get Baha'i with a little help from my friends...
• *waits patiently for Pez to enumerate the during- and after-life perquisites of worshipping him* *in the interim, prepares house shrine*
• MonkeyFilter: more about conversation than classification I'll embellish on that thought tomorrow...
• *Returns* Benefits? Donuts. Thou must eat donuts on a daily basis. Failure to eat donuts on a daily basis will result in a heart attack. Those who tell you that donuts are what caused the heart attack are false prophets. *Disappears*