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jaeleslie at 12:45pm on 30/11/2002
jaeleslie at 12:45pm on 30/11/2002As a small entertainment for our newly embarked holiday season, I refer you to the Belief-o-matic and
http://beliefnet.com/features/quiz/index.html
Since last March when I first used the Belief-o-matic to diagnose my religious and philosophical state, I seem to have become a bit more Buddhist and a bit less Protestant, still firmly in agreement with the views of Liberal Quaker and Unitarian Universalist (the faith I was, as it were, raised in). Not that I'm a church-going anything. These questions, twenty of em, are the sort of thing I find very interesting, but at the same time not appropriate for fighting over. I think that what you think is between you and your god, Cosmic Muffin or whatever. I have not bothered to rate the relative importance or priority of each of these questions, as the Belief-o-matic allows, to further refine with which religion I might identify. The little digests of different beliefs you can find by clicking on each category are kind of interesting, tho not the most galvanizing readings I have ever found.
Not entirely irrelevantly: yesterday was Buy Nothing Day, and we successfully avoided buying anything except a loaf of French bread to go with our traditional turkey soup. If we hadn't gone to the gym (fun for the whole Iron Family) I could have made bread in the breadmaker instead, but by the time I thought of that we were too close to hungry. On half of my exercises I am now raising my weights by ten pounds, and doing two sets instead of three for a bit on some of them until I get stronger.
Today we have leftover turkey, and dressing, and gravy, and mashed potatoes, and so forth. The dressing was my own invention, as usual, with leeks this time instead of onions which made it very oniony, about half and half wheat bread and white, with celery and garlic and walnuts and apple bits. I seem to have made enough dinner to feed four times as many people. The pies though (apple cranberry and non-dairy pumpkin) are nearly gone.
The cat is worse.
It snowed a bit last night, just enough to cover everything, and the temperature is nine below on the Celsius scale.
http://beliefnet.com/features/quiz/index.html
Since last March when I first used the Belief-o-matic to diagnose my religious and philosophical state, I seem to have become a bit more Buddhist and a bit less Protestant, still firmly in agreement with the views of Liberal Quaker and Unitarian Universalist (the faith I was, as it were, raised in). Not that I'm a church-going anything. These questions, twenty of em, are the sort of thing I find very interesting, but at the same time not appropriate for fighting over. I think that what you think is between you and your god, Cosmic Muffin or whatever. I have not bothered to rate the relative importance or priority of each of these questions, as the Belief-o-matic allows, to further refine with which religion I might identify. The little digests of different beliefs you can find by clicking on each category are kind of interesting, tho not the most galvanizing readings I have ever found.
Not entirely irrelevantly: yesterday was Buy Nothing Day, and we successfully avoided buying anything except a loaf of French bread to go with our traditional turkey soup. If we hadn't gone to the gym (fun for the whole Iron Family) I could have made bread in the breadmaker instead, but by the time I thought of that we were too close to hungry. On half of my exercises I am now raising my weights by ten pounds, and doing two sets instead of three for a bit on some of them until I get stronger.
Today we have leftover turkey, and dressing, and gravy, and mashed potatoes, and so forth. The dressing was my own invention, as usual, with leeks this time instead of onions which made it very oniony, about half and half wheat bread and white, with celery and garlic and walnuts and apple bits. I seem to have made enough dinner to feed four times as many people. The pies though (apple cranberry and non-dairy pumpkin) are nearly gone.
The cat is worse.
It snowed a bit last night, just enough to cover everything, and the temperature is nine below on the Celsius scale.
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