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Post by Bill Thompson on Apr 25, 2007 14:24:12 GMT -4
This has a lot of popularity with friends. I am not advertising this thing. But I think this is an interesting little online thingy. You answer 20 questions and it matches your results to people of various faiths and tells you where you fall at the end. I think it is fun. [url=http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html ]Belief-O-Matic[/url] www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
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Post by gwiz on Apr 25, 2007 16:22:36 GMT -4
I tried it and it crashed after question 8.
I'm underwhelmed.
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Post by Jason on Apr 25, 2007 16:49:13 GMT -4
It pegged me as a Mormon, despite my answering "none of the above" to many of the questions where I felt none of the choices were strictly accurate to my beliefs.
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Post by donnieb on Apr 25, 2007 17:31:50 GMT -4
I scored 100% for "Secular Humanism", which is apparently the closest that quiz comes to admitting the existence of atheism or agnosticism... (edit) well, there is a "Nontheist" category (1 hit only 79% on that for some reason). Plus, their description of "Secular Humanism" states that most of such are atheists or agnostics.
It was easy to take after the first few questions, since I didn't have to consider much beyond the last one or two options.
Hmm, mabe I'll start a new faith: "Secular Simianism". We're all apes under our Armanis.
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Post by gillianren on Apr 25, 2007 18:07:16 GMT -4
I got "liberal Quaker" at 100%--my actual faith, or what they call it (neo-Paganism) came in at 84%. My former faith, Roman Catholicism, came in at 34%--right above Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnessism. I guess it's that I'm fine with gay rights and divorce and abortion, huh?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Apr 25, 2007 18:51:15 GMT -4
Heh, I got a 100% Othodox Quaker, the next highest at 89% is what I'd actually be classed as, a Mainstream to Conservative Protestant, but as is obvious, my views tend to differ slightly from them too.
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Post by Data Cable on Apr 25, 2007 19:31:57 GMT -4
Nontheist 100%, Secular Humanism 95%. I'll note that the questions ending in "Or don't know. Or not important" would seem to indicate Athieists, Agnostics and, er... Appathetics are being lumped into a single category.
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Post by Data Cable on Apr 25, 2007 19:34:05 GMT -4
We're all apes under our Armanis. Might I propose that many of those whom can afford Armanis are more reptilian than mammalian? ;D
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Post by donnieb on Apr 25, 2007 20:16:13 GMT -4
We're all apes under our Armanis. Might I propose that many of those whom can afford Armanis are more reptilian than mammalian? ;D Well, don't look at me. It was just the first designer name I thought of.
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Post by echnaton on Apr 26, 2007 9:23:13 GMT -4
My top match was mainstream to liberal protestant. I view myself leaning toward conservative. The difference was probably that I don't want to know about what people do in their own bedrooms.
The second match was orthodox Quaker. And I didn't even know there was a divisions among quakers into orthodox and liberals.
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Post by reynoldbot on May 1, 2007 15:42:04 GMT -4
I got 100% secular humanist and 96% Unitarian Universalism (?). Buddhism came in close for 82%. I was insulted to find I was 32% scientologist.
I looked at the Unitarian section and basically it has such wide parameters that just about everybody falls under at least a few of their categories.
I don't know why they couldn't just include an agnostic or atheist section. I am 100% not an atheist. Agnosticism is the road for me.
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Post by gillianren on May 1, 2007 17:13:51 GMT -4
Yeah, my grandfather (who was a Methodist minister) used to say that Unitarians believed in "one God at the most." He had a thing about them.
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Post by Jason on May 1, 2007 17:28:05 GMT -4
Reminds me of a Simpson's episode. Bart's playing a video game with Rod and Todd where he zaps heathens and atheists to turn them into Christians. He excitedly shouts, "Ooh, full conversion!" and Rod says, "No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian."
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Post by Bill Thompson on May 1, 2007 21:41:12 GMT -4
My results: 1. | Mahayana Buddhism (100%) | 2. | New Age (98%) | 3. | Theravada Buddhism (98%) | 4. | Neo-Pagan (94%) | 5. | Unitarian Universalism (89%) | 6. | Hinduism (84%) | 7. | Liberal Quakers (83%) | 8. | New Thought (83%) | 9. | Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (81%) | 10. | Jainism (77%) | 11. | Secular Humanism (76%) | 12. | Scientology (73%) | 13. | Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%) | 14. | Nontheist (68%) | 15. | Orthodox Judaism (68%) | 16. | Orthodox Quaker (68%) | 17. | Taoism (61%) | 18. | Bahá'í Faith (60%) | 19. | Islam (60%) | 20. | Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (60%) |
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Post by gillianren on May 2, 2007 1:49:47 GMT -4
You were lying to the nice system about your compassion for other people, weren't you?
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