idiot quizzes

[kaigou]

Do we have a BIAS, people?

aishuu got the result of:

You scored as Christian. The Good News is...you're a Christian.

You my friend are a non-denominational Christian. You strive to be a better person and are generally concerned about how your actions affect other people; however, you do struggle with disobedience as it may make life uncomfortable for you. Your greatest battle will be against lukewarmedness. Dude, fight the good fight.

That's amusing, in a 'you say that like it's a good thing' kind of amusing. For starters, I'm not certain non-demoninational Xtians (whatever that means) necessarily struggle with disobedience. I mean...define disobedience. Are we talking from a Judiac perspective? (Yes, I'd like some bacon, please.) Okay. Anyway. Being bored and braindead, I wander over, because I'm going to have to do major work on ch8 and I don't want to go there at one in the morning. So I'll do moronic quizzes instead. If only I had idea how moronic, beforehand. My eventual options? Anarchist, Buddhist, Catholic, Christian, Cult, Jewish, in alphabetical order. Hunh. I didn't even know there was an 'anarchist' religion, and I studied theology for four years. Boy. This must be a new development...or something.

So I'm utterly unsurprised to get another tie - like the Voltron/Transformers quiz, I seem to be falling in the middle of a great deal today. Must be all the words and charactesr in my head. So if I vote one way on the tie-breaker, I get:

You are a Buddhist You basically get lost in the sea of conflicting ideas as your mind hasn't been developed to discern truth from halftruth. You entertain many philosophical ideas that don't apply to your daily life or actually fulfill you in any way. Maybe you didn't have a strong background of faith and morality growing up, which is why you have basically no convictions whatsoever. Follow your heart, it will guide you to the obvious truth and its simplicity will astonish you. Tarot cards, astrology, and witchcraft will be a temptation for you. Be careful.

I don't think this person knows what a Buddhist is. I can't think of any practicing Buddhists - and I've known a good number of them - who have considered witchcraft or astrology or even tarot as...temptations? It's like, trying to say that mountain climbers will find bathing suits tempting. It just isn't often an issue. I'm doing my best to ignore the idea that a Buddhist - one of the more complex (really, yes, it is) and difficult self-contemplative paths one could chose could...have a mind undeveloped in discerning truth from halftruth? No convictions?

Moron quizwriter is bad. Biased moron quizwriter - worse.

So I go back, and choose the other tie-breaker option, and I get anarchist. Okay, this one I gotta see. What's a frickin' anarchist, as a religion? I thought it was a political movement from the 20s. Oh, wait, that was the Bolsheviks. Yeah, whatever. Weren't the anarchists the bad guys in Lil' Orphan Annie? Y'know, the ones who kept throwing bombs through Daddy Warbuck's office window and I just realized his name is Warbucks - was Lil' Orphan Annie a satire and no one ever told me? Hrm. Food for thought, but first, where was I? Oh, right. Stupid quizzes.

Coochy choochy coo, what a cute little ANARCHIST we have here. You see everything as a means to an end, and that end is You. You don't understand why some saps do community service cause you wouldn't be caught dead picking up trash unless you were in an orange jumpsuit. You're also pretty angry at the world but are too self-concerned to do anything about it because you are an anarchist. Understanding this statement would practically kill you, "There is freedom in obedience." You probably also hate Bush.

Riiiiiight.

This is why my degree is in nonprofit management, because I'm a selfish bastard who doesn't have a stack o' stuff to take to the local women's shelter for my monthly donation. Nope, not me!

However, I feel so much more enlightened now that I'm aware of yet another frickin' religion in the world. Anarchism! Boy. What would I do without the internet to tell me these things.

Comments

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I think that particular biased moron quizwriter who can't spell those tricky words meant 'atheist' not 'anarchist'. Because, of course, no one would consider doing something 'good' unless it was in obedience to a higher power.

Now, anarchists are the Slayer and her band of freaks. And Riley.


Oy.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Damn, and here I was all excited about getting to dress in black and throw bombs through windows. Damn it.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I say we do it anyway. I'll bring the windows!

They didn't even have a choice for me. As a Lapsed Catholic who was a product of two generations of mixed marriages (neither my father nor my maternal grandfather were Catholic), went to a parochial elementary school, and is now agnostic, I was sad to see that my category wasn't even badly represented. *sigh*

*perks up* But black! And bombs through windows! Yay!

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Agnostic. I dunno. Maybe that falls under Catholic?

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

What exactly does non-denominational Christian mean, anyway? *scratches head* And where would you fall in the quiz if you're Christian, but one of those pesky denominations that the Christians don't like to admit as Christian?

Geez, what a dumb quiz.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

And where would you fall in the quiz if you're Christian, but one of those pesky denominations that the Christians don't like to admit as Christian?

Catholic.

hehehe

[sarolynne.livejournal.com]

I took that quiz.

I got freaking Buddhist on that one. I was, er, unhappy with it. Of course, I was unhappy that anarchist was even on there. In what way is anarchism a religon? I must have missed that one.

But that discerning truths from halftruths thing... oh. I really was annoyed with that. Believe me. I have a very discerning mind. That's part of why I'm agnostic (not that most Christians would agree that makes me descerning, but what can I say?).

I'm afraid that my reaction was less like "biased moron" and more like "neo-Christian f***head." Yay for you tact. ;)

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Believe me. I have a very discerning mind.

Yeah, but I don't love you for your mind.

*leers*

[christeos-pir.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when Xian college-age kids -- no offense to any here -- with only a comicbook / I-took-a-101-course / my preacher told me about it level of understanding of religion (not to mention politics) try to write these things.

Dude, like only Christians care about other people, and buddhists are all occultist coz they, like, worship Satan, and anarchists are those guys that don't like the world bank but drive SUVs. Dude.



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[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I don't drive an SUV, and I've known four people who work at the World Bank.

Man! Maybe it's time to start my own religion. RENDER UNTO SOL WHAT IS SOL'S! Little idols of me, everywhere! Push that rubber chicken aside and set ME up over your computer! Wooo!

Solism. Like Solipism, but more fun, and with better merchandising.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Solism. Like Solipism, but more fun, and with better merchandising.

I could get behind that.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

That's right. You can find little keychains of me now at every major con. Along with people at the front door dressed in priests' outfits and black caps and clunky boots handing out leaflets praising my virtues.

*snark*

Yeah, that'll be the day. A Duo singing my praises! I could only be so, uh, lucky. Right.

[christeos-pir.livejournal.com]

> Solism. Like Solipism, but more fun, and with better merchandising.

Sorry, I already subscribe to one solar-phallic cult.

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[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I already subscribe to one solar-phallic cult.

Oh, oops, forgot to tell you, the bill arrived saying your Solar subscription runs out next month.

But if you order now, you can get three years of Solism, for the low price of your monthly mortgage!!! Whatta deal!!! But don't answer yet - there's more! If you order now, you also get a free set of foxhound mutts!!! They pee, they whine, they even shed on your favorite black pants!!! How much would you pay now? Fifty dollars? Two hundred dollars? Not here!!! You can get all this AND the Amazing Visiting Shiatsu Therapist for only nearly five times that! Order now!!! Operators standing by!!!!!

I scare myself. I don't think I've ever used that many exclamation points in a single paragraph.

[pixiepilot.livejournal.com]

Heh, I took this quiz, too. It was so stupid, I refused to post results. I got labeled a Catholic, when I was really going for "Cult", because I'm one of those Christians other Christians refuse to admit are Christians. Heh, oh well. But... my Dad was Catholic once. Does that count? *chuckles*

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you're a descended lapsed Catholic. In this quiz, you'd probably need to play with snakes, speak in tongues, or sacrifice chickens to achieve cultage. Oh, wait, have you stockpiled huge amounts of guns? That'll do it, too. Nope, you can't be a cult; you didn't shove me under your bed and refuse to let me come out except while dressed in a white bedsheet and maybe we shouldn't go there.

Well, us non-Catholics and non-Anarchists gotta stick together. Have your girl call my girl. We'll fax lunch.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

you didn't shove me under your bed and refuse to let me come out except while dressed in a white bedsheet

...or one of those nifty purple cloaks!

[branchandroot]

*twitches*

You know, last night, while browsing through Acts trying to find the NT incarnation of that damn passage, I had a sudden urge, around Chapter 5 I think it was, to make a journal post announcing to all and sundry that the Apostles were Commies. And then run away laughing before I got zorched by the Religious Right and the ghost of Lenin, both. I restrained myself. Alas that the quizmaker didn't show similar restraint, or, failing that, similar interest in her/his alleged source text.

The absolute ignorance of the people most given to evangelism makes me shudder.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I think you and christeos_pir would get along swimmingly. I believe he's made comments to that effect in the past. But I suspect you're right; the more one believes devoutly in an entire text, the more one must hedge and fudge to make up for the inconsistencies in that text - especially when it's been written over the course of several hundred years by who-knows-how-many-authors, contains passages included solely for political reasons important only to some guy who's been dead now for a hundred generations (or more), and also has known forgeries amongst its passages.

Yeeeeeah.

Blink

[presser-kun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm out of step here, but I forgot yer email address (how does one misplace such things?) and --

Anyway, I got to thinking about your recent FMA rant. I have exactly no business doing this, but I'd like to try my hand at an FMA genfic. Would you care to hand me a bunny? Normally I'd do my own thinking, but thought granules are currently at a premium around here.

We'll see what I can do with it.

Peace 'n' all.

Re: Blink

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I have no bunnies. I dunno where to find them. Sorry. Have you tried the magic eight-ball?

Re: Blink

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

You can have mine with schizophrenic!Ed. I don't want it.

Re: Blink

[presser-kun.livejournal.com]

I know I'm co-opting your LJ for a moment, Sol, but you'll forgive that, right? *smiles weakly*

So, the bunny with schizophrenic!Ed. Feed it to me, okay? I'll take it on.