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What's your belief?

18:54 / 28.08.03

I normally disdain personality tests, as I have tried a few and judged them lacking.

But this one is to my taste, as I find it reveals much more of the participant thatn the others I have sampled.

Me? 100% Liberal Quaker & 98% Unitarian Universalism as the top scorers.

What are your beliefs?

19:55 / 28.08.03

Apparently I'm 100% Unitarian Universalist. But it seems we're a 'diverse' bunch, so I predict a lot more of us.

20:29 / 28.08.03

i'm right there w/you, smoothly.

22:12 / 28.08.03

Wow Neo-Pagan, followed by New age - that was a suprise!

I don't hold with all that hippy Druid Stonehenge gathering palm reading crap. Or perhaps I do, but just didn't realise it before. Unitarian Universalism was third though, whatever that is.

I suppose I'd better do some research into what these beliefs actually are supposed to mean before I disregard them off hand.

Damnit I thought I was mostly buddhist, but that was way down the list, I haven't felt so ill-informed for years!

Spyder Todd 2008

00:58 / 29.08.03

The thing is (IMOH), Buddhism isn't supposed to be a religion, it's a philosophy. So, no matter what faith you consider yourself, you could also be a Buddhist. I guess. My top five results are:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
3. New Age (95%)
4. New Thought (90%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
Whatever. I'm a being of chaos, and as such don't tend to worry much about which religion I'm part of at any given time.

Spyder Todd 2008

00:59 / 29.08.03

The thing is (IMHO), Buddhism isn't supposed to be a religion, it's a philosophy. So, no matter what faith you consider yourself, you could also be a Buddhist. I guess. My top five results are:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (96%)
3. New Age (95%)
4. New Thought (90%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
Whatever. I'm a being of chaos, and as such don't tend to worry much about which religion I'm part of at any given time.

01:29 / 29.08.03

Feh. Unitarian Universalist my arse.

Just goes to show, programs on a website can't tell you your spiritual path.

01:53 / 29.08.03

1. Hinduism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (100%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
4. Liberal Quakers (96%)
5. New Age (94%)
6. Mahayana Buddhism (93%)
7. Bahá'í Faith (89%)
8. Jainism (88%)
9. Sikhism (83%)
10. Reform Judaism (80%)
11. Orthodox Judaism (77%)
12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)
13. New Thought (72%)
14. Theravada Buddhism (71%)
15. Islam (68%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (67%)
17. Scientology (61%)
18. Taoism (61%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (58%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (52%)
21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (47%)
22. Secular Humanism (47%)
23. Jehovah's Witness (44%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (43%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (40%)
26. Roman Catholic (40%)
27. Nontheist (26%)

To quote Johnny Carson "Well, I did not know that."

04:33 / 29.08.03

1. Mahayana Buddhism 100%
2. Unitarian Universalism 98%
3. Neo-pagan 95%
4. Liberal Quakers 92%
5. New Age 84%
6. Hinduism 83%
7. Mainline to Liberal Xtian Protestants 81%
8. Taoism 81%
9. Theravada Buddhism 76%
10. New Thought 64%
11. Jainism 61%

It is kind of a neat little test. I am hardly surprised to see such Eastern influences (1, 6, 8, 9, 11) cropping up wrt my own belief structures.

04:48 / 29.08.03

Very silly indeed...

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (99%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (97%)
4. Neo-Pagan (86%)
5. New Age (85%)
6. Mahayana Buddhism (74%)
7. Hinduism (68%)
8. Orthodox Quaker (65%)
9. Secular Humanism (60%)
10. Theravada Buddhism (60%)

04:59 / 29.08.03

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Nontheist (87%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%)
5. Liberal Quakers (81%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
7. Neo-Pagan (65%)
8. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (59%)
9. Reform Judaism (59%)
10. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (58%)

I'm still trying to figure out what religions four through ten on my list have to do with each other.

A

05:07 / 29.08.03

apparently...

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (95%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (93%)
4. Neo-Pagan (89%)
5. Secular Humanism (86%)
6. New Age (85%)
7. Mahayana Buddhism (72%)
8. Theravada Buddhism (71%)
9. Reform Judaism (64%)
10. Taoism (62%)

I have no idea what this means.

unheimlich manoeuvre

11:51 / 29.08.03

not what I was expecting. i see myself as more of a Buddhist or a secular humanist. oh well, looks like I'm an Anglican...

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (98%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
4. Neo-Pagan (75%)
5. Bahá'í Faith (73%)
6. New Age (72%)
7. Mahayana Buddhism (71%)
8. Secular Humanism (61%)
9. Theravada Buddhism (60%)
10. Reform Judaism (59%)

12:05 / 29.08.03

Secular Humanism, as usual. Why do they give you so many results? Surely you don't need any more than five to see the direction your going in? In my case, I'd have thought anything other than secular humanism or unitarian universalism was totally redundant since I answered all the questions about faith with 'not applicable'...

01:27 / 01.09.03

Yeah, another Secular Humanist again. Although how it can possibly rate me as closer to a Unitarian than an atheist is frankly astounding:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Nontheist (92%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)
5. Liberal Quakers (85%)

12:04 / 01.09.03

Well I'll be -

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (89%)
4. New Age (86%)
5. Hinduism (74%)

Bit concered about having Scientology in my top ten, what's the deal with them anyway?

12:08 / 01.09.03

Yeah, another Secular Humanist again. Although how it can possibly rate me as closer to a Unitarian than an atheist is frankly astounding - Cass

I think that the way the test is designed, having any morality automatically distances you from atheism. Partly because atheists don't necessarily share any kind of ethical code, I suppose.

Tryphena Absent

12:58 / 01.09.03

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (92%)
3. Liberal Quakers (89%)
4. Neo-Pagan (82%)
5. Secular Humanism (72%)

Hmm, interesting that I didn't tick one box with reference to a single God or Christ and this test still places me as a Protestant.

13:50 / 01.09.03

1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. New Age (95%)
3. Mahayana Buddhism (95%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (83%)
5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (78%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (77%)
7. Liberal Quakers (76%)
8. New Thought (72%)
9. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (67%)
10. Scientology (67%)
11. Sikhism (66%)
12. Bahá'í Faith (64%)
13. Reform Judaism (63%)
14. Taoism (62%)
15. Hinduism (60%)
16. Jainism (56%)
17. Secular Humanism (52%)
18. Orthodox Quaker (41%)
19. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (37%)
20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (37%)
21. Orthodox Judaism (35%)
22. Islam (28%)
23. Nontheist (27%)
24. Jehovah's Witness (26%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (15%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (14%)
27. Roman Catholic (14%)

I think any leanings towards the LHP are simply construed as "Neo-Pagan". It is too much like looking at the underside of a rock for the mainstream. If you don't disturb it too much, the bugs won't crawl out.

Okay then.

All hail the new Insect Overlord!

14:33 / 01.09.03

How odd!

This Buddhist thing intrigues me.

1. Theravada Buddhism (100%)
2. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (98%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (94%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (92%)
5. Liberal Quakers (91%)
6. New Thought (86%)
7. Nontheist (84%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (81%)
9. Secular Humanism (80%)
10. Taoism (80%)
11. Neo-Pagan (78%)
12. Scientology (77%)