Meme of the moment

[chipotle]

I'd actually taken this "Belief System Selector" quiz before over a year ago, but I've seen it floating around LiveJournal today. I took it again and I think my results are--close to what they were before, although I think Secular Humanism flipped with Theravada Buddhism.

1. Unitarian Univeralism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (98%)
3. Secular Humanism (92%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (84%)
5. Neo-Pagan (83%)

For the record, coming in last was Jehovah's Witness, at 9%.

Comments

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

The description makes me sound so noble. *smile* Or perhaps it seems flattering to me because it's an accurate outline of my moral structure. But I don't know that it's really true. The test doesn't check for certain things; it assumes one's beliefs are consistent from day to day or hour to hour.

I worry that I will never accomplish anything, because it appears to me that in order to accomplish a goal, one must have faith in the validity of one's actions, or faith in the usefulness of the objective, or a strong desire to adhere to a system of belief; and I'm just not that sort of person. I see a system of belief and I rip it apart, I vivisect it. I find the flaws and I beat on them until it all falls apart. It's not something I do out of belief, it's just what I do. It's involuntary and increasingly uncontrollable. I'm aware that even my own orientation has nothing solid to recommend it, that I'm sticking to it because it gratifies me to do so. I wonder sometimes if it's the open-minded people who are flawed, if one has to be ignorant or narrow-minded or paranoid or xenophobic in order to really get anything done. I don't want to have to be like that.

Incidentally, check out my other blathering (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=postvixen&itemid=171348&thread=1181524#t1181524) about the value of reason....