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12-08-2002, 09:41 PM
http://about.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=27

50 - 59 Spiritual Straddler – One foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality
12-08-2002, 09:55 PM
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path
tileman
12-08-2002, 10:41 PM
83 confident believer........... :)
the bib
12-08-2002, 11:54 PM
Roman Catholic.

Although there are many here who would call it an "organized religion" I know it is more accurately described as a philosophy.

This philosophy puts all emphasis on the spiritual, the ideal ascetic, mystical, simple, humble, charitable and pacifistic.... and totally unconcerned with the material pursuits over and above bare necessities.

I am not saying that most Catholics DO this, just that they embrace this philosophy and aspire (and also most often fail) to the mystical and spiritual ideal.

The perfect example of the perfect ideal: Jesus ... His philosophy, worldview/afterworld view, His teachings, His instructions, how He treated others, how He reacted to those who hurt Him AND all the lessons his life AS HE lived it. (And as He died.)

The following incorporates the basic philosophy; but please bear in mind that Catholics are more human than saints and DOING is a lot harder and more complicated than simply understanding, embracing and believing.

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
...where there is injury, pardon;
...where there is doubt, faith;
...where there is despair, hope;
...where there is darkness, light;
...where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
...to be consoled as to console;
...to be understood as to understand;
...to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
...it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
...and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. "

If you know any Catholics, you will very often find that they have guilty consciences. Living a life trying to do and be the above aspirations is very difficult.

Catholics have guilty consicences because we KNOW better ... that is we HAVE the formula and STILL can;t put it right.

So to answer your question, this is what I believe and want to be ... but most often fail.
tileman
12-09-2002, 12:01 AM
You didn't take the test did you? :P




Roman Catholic.

Although there are many here who would call it an "organized religion" I know it is more accurately described as a philosophy.

This philosophy puts all emphasis on the spiritual, the ideal ascetic, mystical, simple, humble, charitable and pacifistic.... and totally unconcerned with the material pursuits over and above bare necessities.

I am not saying that most Catholics DO this, just that they embrace this philosophy and aspire (and also most often fail) to the mystical and spiritual ideal.

The perfect example of the perfect ideal: Jesus ... His philosophy, worldview/afterworld view, His teachings, His instructions, how He treated others, how He reacted to those who hurt Him AND all the lessons his life AS HE lived it. (And as He died.)

The following incorporates the basic philosophy; but please bear in mind that Catholics are more human than saints and DOING is a lot harder and more complicated than simply understanding, embracing and believing.

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
...where there is injury, pardon;
...where there is doubt, faith;
...where there is despair, hope;
...where there is darkness, light;
...where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
...to be consoled as to console;
...to be understood as to understand;
...to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
...it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
...and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. "

If you know any Catholics, you will very often find that they have guilty consciences. Living a life trying to do and be the above aspirations is very difficult.

Catholics have guilty consicences because we KNOW better ... that is we HAVE the formula and STILL can;t put it right.

So to answer your question, this is what I believe and want to be ... but most often fail.
truelies
12-09-2002, 03:52 AM
What's Your Spiritual Type?





You scored 97, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:
25 - 29
Hardcore Skeptic -- but interested or you wouldn't be here!
30 - 39
Spiritual Dabbler -- Open to spiritual matters but far from impressed
40 - 49
Active Spiritual Seeker – Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
50 - 59
Spiritual Straddler – One foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality
60 - 69
Old-fashioned Seeker -- Happy with my religion but searching for the right expression of it
70 - 79
Questioning Believer – You have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path
90 - 100
Candidate for Clergy


I assume that the last xctegory is a bit tongue in cheek. I would make a terrible Rev, not near enough people skills.
Ed Edwards
12-09-2002, 05:03 AM
81 --
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path

I also know it is PC=politically correct
to be seeking the true path.
But if you ever find it -- you will imediately
be labeled a "bigot".
CatNtheHat
12-09-2002, 05:38 AM
91....but trust me...I am no candidate for Clergy
12-09-2002, 07:35 AM
91....but trust me...I am no candidate for Clergy


Trust me, I believe you. :)

(nice guy though)
kathleen
12-09-2002, 07:38 AM
40 - 49
Active Spiritual Seeker – Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
Julia
12-09-2002, 08:05 AM
I'm with you, kathleen. But I'm really right on the line between Dabbler and Seeker:
You (Julia) scored 41, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:

40 - 49
Active Spiritual Seeker – Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
Slipped Mickey
12-09-2002, 09:57 AM
I gave up. A number of questions did not offer options for which I would most likely answer. What does that make me?
Meshuga Mikey
12-09-2002, 10:11 AM
Southern Negro~!!!

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BUT SERIOUSLY NOW...........



Rather than put myself through hell of reading the whole SOMPLISTIC text of the test,... I Stopped at the point where I encountered this sophist PAP,.and choose to focus on it here~!

Q3. I believe the scripture I know best (the Bible, the Koran, etc.) is:

1. Mostly or entirely mythology
2. Divinely inspired and mostly true
3. Divinely written and accurate
4. Should be viewed mainly as storytelling or metaphor, not a literal account

That here are indeed several dozens of methaphorical matters throughout the Bible,. and that they are accepted as such does in no way make them any less divine inspired and directed.

Say Amen Sumbuddy

Revrunt Mikey
12-09-2002, 11:14 AM
You scored 89, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path
12-09-2002, 11:18 AM
You scored 89, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path



Did you retake the test Jack?
12-09-2002, 11:31 AM
You scored 89, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path



Did you retake the test Jack?


No, I only took it once. I just went back and edited out the extraneous details I pasted in there to begin with.
12-09-2002, 11:34 AM
I gave up. A number of questions did not offer options for which I would most likely answer. What does that make me?


I had trouble with a couple of them too, but I picked the answers that seemed the closest to what I believed.
Slipped Mickey
12-09-2002, 09:23 PM
I gave up. A number of questions did not offer options for which I would most likely answer. What does that make me?


I had trouble with a couple of them too, but I picked the answers that seemed the closest to what I believed.


Tell me what answers you want and I'll design a survey that will do just that. It's difficult to do otherwise. After about 12 or 14 I was out of choices. I didn't get into what I believe by reading surveys and checking boxes. You either?

Jack - On another note, are you and yours doing OK? We hear out west that damn near half of NC still doesn't have electricity. (That's not counting those who didn't have it to start with. ;) ) I do hope you and yours are doing OK. Folks don't realize it but when a winter storm hits down home people suffer. Dixie isn't prepared for that kind of weather and people die from it.
12-10-2002, 06:52 AM
Tell me what answers you want and I'll design a survey that will do just that. It's difficult to do otherwise. After about 12 or 14 I was out of choices. I didn't get into what I believe by reading surveys and checking boxes. You either?

Nah. By the time I got around to the end, I had left 5 or 6 blank, as none of the choices accurately reflected my beliefs. I just chose the closest fit so it would rate me.

I liked the other test better, as it would let you leave a few questions blank.

Jack - On another note, are you and yours doing OK? We hear out west that damn near half of NC still doesn't have electricity. (That's not counting those who didn't have it to start with. ;) ) I do hope you and yours are doing OK. Folks don't realize it but when a winter storm hits down home people suffer. Dixie isn't prepared for that kind of weather and people die from it.


Yeah, I'm okay, but thanks for asking. I lost power for about 12 hours Friday (3 am to 3 pm), but my mother lost power from Wednesday thru Friday, and my brother's didn't come back on until Sunday night. Fortunately my mom has a fireplace, and my brother and I went and picked her up some wood.

Heck, there were tree limbs and stuff all over the place -- if we'd have had a chainsaw, we'd have really been in business.

You're absolutely right about people down here not being prepared for something like this -- as of yesterday, there had been about 30 deaths I think.
lucy
12-11-2002, 07:27 AM
86.
Confident believer.
Moonchild
12-12-2002, 12:47 AM
Welcome! Your score on the Beliefnet Spiritual Type Quiz says you may be an Spiritual Dabbler.

..................

First I say that I don’t believe, and then I have to answer questions that rule out that I don’t believe. Then I'm labeled a dabbler ... ::)

I showed some respect for others believes, which does not mean that I personally is dabbling in any spirituality.
lucy
12-12-2002, 04:22 AM
Loki.

I admit "dabbler" sounds a bit negative.

Aren't you "mildly curious"?
Moonchild
12-12-2002, 04:54 AM
Loki.

I admit "dabbler" sounds a bit negative.

Aren't you "mildly curious"?


I enjoy reading about faith, I admire some values that we find in some faiths, but I feel no faith what so ever in a deity / spirituality.

I don't take offence by the term dabbler, I just don't agree that it fits me. The questions left no 'I'm spiritually dead' option ;)
12-12-2002, 12:53 PM
About 40 words per minute.
12-12-2002, 08:12 PM
About 40 words per minute.


I type 65-70 wpm. Of course badnews has us all beat.