elusiveat ([info]elusiveat) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 16:20:00
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Poll #1175956 religion 2
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends

Mix 'n' match: Which of the folllowing best characterizes your religious identification?

Pagan
11 (35.5%)

Christian
3 (9.7%)

Muslim
0 (0.0%)

Animist
5 (16.1%)

Hindu
1 (3.2%)

Jewish
8 (25.8%)

Atheist
14 (45.2%)

Buddhist
4 (12.9%)

Agnostic
12 (38.7%)

Pantheist
3 (9.7%)

I willfully abstained from the previous poll
5 (16.1%)

I'm willfully abstaining from this question
3 (9.7%)

Pandering to the disgruntled: knock yourselves out.

Pagan
8 (26.7%)

Christian
1 (3.3%)

Muslim
0 (0.0%)

Animist
4 (13.3%)

Hindu
0 (0.0%)

Jewish
4 (13.3%)

Atheist
11 (36.7%)

Buddhist
2 (6.7%)

Agnostic
9 (30.0%)

Pantheist
1 (3.3%)

Taoist
4 (13.3%)

Satanist
1 (3.3%)

Bokononist
3 (10.0%)

Discordian
5 (16.7%)

Church of Subgenius
2 (6.7%)

Church of Friendship
2 (6.7%)

I'm still willfully abstaining
3 (10.0%)

Mu
6 (20.0%)

Nu
2 (6.7%)

Tickybox
9 (30.0%)

Tickybox
8 (26.7%)

Tickybox
8 (26.7%)

Other (specify in comments)
6 (20.0%)


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[info]beowabbit
2008-04-23 08:44 pm UTC (link)
That person who only checked two of the Tickybox tickyboxes is clearly an apostate infidel, whose evil heresy must be washed from the face of the earth by rivers of blood!

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-23 09:01 pm UTC (link)
Actually, it's two people who checked one each...

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[info]beowabbit
2008-04-23 09:30 pm UTC (link)
Actually, it's two people who checked one each...
By the Three Boxes, the enemies of Truth are more subtle and insidious than we mere untickables can possibly imagine!

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[info]flwyd
2008-04-24 12:28 am UTC (link)
I only checked two Tickybox options because the Odds must stick together!

And while I checked Taoist, it's philosophical Taoism, not the one with the dudes with crazy eyes and huge weapons.

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[info]ratatosk
2008-04-23 08:50 pm UTC (link)
In this sort of context I usually use the word "areligious" to describe myself. I feel like saying that not picking one of the religious options means you must pick atheist or agnostic is like saying that if you aren't a top or bottom, you must be a switch.

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[info]metahacker
2008-04-23 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-23 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Long before the religion poll series was conceptualized, I had the idea for a "what type of non-theist are you" poll. I'll have to keep the word "areligious" in mind should that poll ever come to fruition. Many moons from now. When everyone has forgotten. Maybe.

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[info]spacehawk
2008-04-24 12:09 am UTC (link)
"Mu" means, "This question is poorly formed/un-ask this question". It's not exactly what you are getting at, but it's close.

I think if I asked you, "What does your computer like to eat for dinner?", you could answer, "Mu." Same maybe with "How many photons could I carry in this box?" "Zero" is not a fully accurate answer.

I like "I do not identify in this paradigm" options.

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To explain previous answers
[info]metahacker
2008-04-23 08:51 pm UTC (link)
The box for "religion" is absent from my form[1]. It would be like having a "dick length" box on _your_ form. (I presume. Gender-based assumption and all.) "Zero" is inaccurate, and perhaps dangerously misleading.


[1] I have this image in my head where someone tries to describe me by filling out a really complicated form. It has all sorts of boxes for "height" and "eye color" and whatnot. Except I get to say what's on the form, and they're different for everyone. So perhaps it's a somewhat unrealistic image. ;)


Edited at 2008-04-23 08:52 pm UTC

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[info]lyght
2008-04-23 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Other: there is a certain aspect of ancestral worship in this weird thing I call my religion.

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[info]mistressindi
2008-04-23 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Where's my "apostate" tickybox?

That's really the only classification I fall under, these days.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-23 10:38 pm UTC (link)
[looks up definition]

That's me in the corner?

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[info]mistressindi
2008-04-23 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but the song would be in past tense. I'm not losing anything anymore, it's been lost a fair while ago.

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[info]dphilli1
2008-04-24 12:18 am UTC (link)
what about spiritual?

says the person who eats ham & cheese on matzah during passover...

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 12:56 am UTC (link)
What about it?

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[info]dphilli1
2008-04-24 11:29 am UTC (link)
it wasn't an option, thats all

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 03:39 pm UTC (link)
I take it you see spiritual as just as much a religion as atheism? I think of spiritual as something closer to an attitude or personality trait than a belief system...

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[info]ultimatepsi
2008-04-24 03:34 am UTC (link)
Other: I always answer "other" if given the option. I am making up my religion as a go along, and it's got way too many influences to actually name. So unless one wants to spend upwards of an hour talking about it, "other" is the closest I can get to accurate. More detail, somewhat out of date, is available on my website

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[info]flwyd
2008-04-24 04:51 am UTC (link)
I wonder how many adherents of Otherism are in this country.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Otherism?

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[info]flwyd
2008-04-25 01:49 am UTC (link)
If you check "Jewish" you practice Judaism. If you check "Buddhist" you practice Buddhism. If you check "Other" you practice Otherism.

There are, of course, many branches of Otherism.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-25 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Ah... I guess I should have gotten that.

Silly me : )

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 03:37 pm UTC (link)
Eep. Another long thingy for my reading list...

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[info]ultimatepsi
2008-04-24 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Haha! I avenged for being forced to think earlier! (-;

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[info]marmota
2008-04-24 04:36 am UTC (link)
Y'know, you could go out and have conversations instead of treating your friends as lab samples. *annoyed*

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[info]motive_nuance
2008-04-24 05:57 am UTC (link)
She does that too...

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Aw, c'mon. I like playing with information. There's all kinds of ways at looking at a thing. If this particular approach isn't your style, there's nothing forcing you to participate, or even read the posts.

Conversations are great, and I'd be happy to have one with you any time that I'm not otherwise distracted.

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[info]marmota
2008-04-25 03:42 pm UTC (link)
Sorry, that was a knee-jerk reaction on my part from wanting to particpate, and was out of line. I was irked that it appears you're trying to narrow down, rather than broaden, the subject. I see belief engines* as being much more of a continuum than being distinct points. If someone claims to be an agnostic, which religion(s) are they hoping are/are not real? If someone identifies as a member of a religion, is it just what they grew up with and left behind, do they just observe critical parts of it, or are they "kill the unbelievers!" militant about it? How about general superstition? Does their belief in deities, spirits, angels, chakras, auras and so on extend to fortune cookies, horoscopes, tarot cards, and the efficacy of pedestrian crosswalk light buttons?


*http://www.csicop.org/si/9505/belief.html
http://www.xeromag.com/belief.html
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2008/04/close-doors-button.html

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[info]queenortart
2008-04-24 02:05 pm UTC (link)
It's been suggested that I am actually an Apathatheist. I can't be bothered to believe in anything, and that's not in any way facetious

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-24 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I have at least one friend who says he's Agnostic because he doesn't feel like mustering the energy to be an Atheist.

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[info]mycroft
2008-05-19 03:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm late to the polls, but: my beliefs are most closely aligned with secular humanism.

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