T minus eight days until we leave for Santa Barbara and I haven't organized a FRIGGING thing. This is bad people. Really bad. I don't even have a list yet. WTF?! So tonight, unless I happen to fall asleep in the next 30 minutes (and that's looking more and more likely), I am going to focus on my vacation list so I am not a total basket case come July 1.
I shall also be researching the Unitarians who, at first glance, sound like an interesting bunch. I took this quiz (found on the San Jose Unitarian home page) and these were my results:
Unitarian Universalism (100%)
Neo-Pagan (88%)
Liberal Quakers (86%)
New Age (85%)
Mahayana Buddhism (82%)
I didn't have a clue what the hell neo-pagan or liberal quakers were all about. And wasn't sure what made Mahayana Buddhism any different from plain Buddhism. So I looked it up.
Neopaganism is a broad, catch-all term for religious movements influenced by pre-Christian religious beliefs. Even if you know nothing about neopaganism, you've likely heard about one of its offshoots: Wicca.
Liberal Quakers are essentially quakers of a more liberal bent. Fairly straightforward.
Mahayana Buddhism is the form practiced in India and East Asia: Tibet, Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam. Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism. The other well-known branch is Theravada Buddhism (primarily found in Southeast Asia). After skimming several web sites that purport to explain the differences between the two schools, I still have no clue. It's all very complicated and nuanced...something I can't be bothered to figured out just before bed.
Over and out.
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Interesting quiz for a Catholic High School teacher! Mine came up 100% Liberal Quaker, 100% Liberal Protestant, 99% Unitarian. Bad news for my employer, as Roman Catholicism came up at 37%. . . uh oh.
ReplyDeleteWell, that was interesting! I should be a Liberal Quaker.
ReplyDelete1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (98%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (91%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (90%)
5. Secular Humanism (89%)
6. Neo-Pagan (86%)
7. Reform Judaism (83%)
8. New Age (83%)
B - you're welcome to join us at the UU Los Gatos church on Sunday (10:30am, they have daycare for the kids). We are going to check it out. Hopefully it's not full of a bunch of wierdos or ageing hippies (or both). Possibly I need to work on my tolerance a bit more? ; )I'll report back to everyone on how it goes.
ReplyDeletedad, I didn't even check to see where Catholicism fell on my chart....I suspect it was WAY down at the bottom though.
ReplyDeleteMy top 5 were:
ReplyDeleteSecular Humanism 100%
Unitarian Universalism 89%
Nontheist 81%
Liberal Quakers 68%
Theravada Buddhism 68%