Stupid Internet Survey: My church model.

What is your model of the church?

You scored as Sacrament model. Your model of the church is Sacrament. The church is the effective sign of the revelation that is the person of Jesus Christ. Christians are transformed by Christ and then become a beacon of Christ wherever they go. This model has a remarkable capacity for integrating other models of the church.

Sacrament model	89%
English	83%
Herald model	72%
Mystical Communion model	72%
Servant model	56%
Institutional model	28%

What is your model of the church?
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Naturally, internet quizzes are seldom scientific, particularly QuizFarm quizzes. This one was less scientific in that it used typical hymns that people would sing in your church as one of its ways of gauging your model. My church really doesn’t sing hymns. Occasionally someone might drop “Be Thou My Vision” or “Alas and Did My Savior Bleed” into the mix, but most of the songs are worship choruses, and I really don’t remember too many of the hymns from my childhood because our worship leaders often stuck to their own Top 40 list. So the reason I didn’t score higher is because I disregarded the hymn questions.

I do believe one of the main reasons for church is the sacraments. They can’t be done alone. You need other Christians to baptize you, share communion, disciple, confess to, witness a marriage, or pray with. I don’t limit the number of sacraments to two or seven; anything mystical and allegorical and involving God is a sacrament. And most sacraments require other people. Therefore we have the church.

I don’t believe, contrary to the Catholics, that the church is the person of Christ. Jesus is the person of Christ. The church may be his body, but he is the head… and sometimes the body acts as if it belongs to a paraplegic. It doesn’t always do what he wants it to. It will someday, but to say the church behaves exactly as Jesus wants it to is to disregard or misrepresent centuries of killing, stealing, and destroying when evil men took power within it. The church can and must become better, and it will if Christians will spend more time serving in it and less time ripping at it.

As to the other models, I agree with them somewhat, of course. Not so much the institutional model. Government is a necessary evil, and that’s even true of church governments. We’re all supposed to be answering to God, and if we did that, we’d actually love one another, support one another, and submit to one another… instead of the usual knee-jerk attitude of “Who are you to tell me what to do?” that we so often see in Americans.

Stupid Internet Survey: What kind of coffee am I?

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

You Are an Irish Coffee. At your best, you are: wild, spontaneous, and outgoing. At your worst, you are: too extreme and reckless. You drink coffee when: you want to keep drinking booze. Your caffeine addiction level: low.

What Kind of Coffee Are You?
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Not entirely sure how I managed to score for Irish coffee. While I like Irish coffee creamer, I don’t drink alcohol and I’d hardly call myself reckless. But that’s just stupid internet quizzes for you.

Stupid Internet Survey: What’s my perfect major?

What is your perfect major?

You scored as Journalism. You are an aspiring journalist, and you should major in journalism! You are passionate about writing and expressing yourself, and you want the world to understand your beliefs through writing.

Journalism	100%
English	83%
Linguistics	83%
Sociology	83%
Anthropology	75%
Art	67%
Theater	67%
Mathematics	58%
Engineering	50%
Philosophy	50%
Dance	42%
Biology	33%
Chemistry	33%
Psychology	33%

What is your Perfect Major?
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Actually, my major was journalism, once upon a time. But I think I should have scored higher on philosophy and psychology.

So, if you personally are wondering what you should major in, you could take this quiz. I personally recommend that you try a more scientific career aptitude test; I took one in high school and found it useful. It actually helped nudge me into journalism.

Stupid Internet Survey: Which revolutionary am I?

What Revolutionary Movement Leader Are You?

Nelson Mandela. You are Nelson Mandela. Your rise from prisoner to President in the long struggle against South African apartheid is an inspiration to the world. You prefer non-violent methods like boycotts, marches and other direct action, but you will use sabotage and other acts of violence when forced to do so.

What Revolutionary Movement Leader Are You?
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Phooey. I was shooting for Gandhi. Oh well. Mandela’s not bad.

Stupid Internet Survey: What’s my religious philosophy?

What’s Your Religious Philosophy?

You scored as Mystical Communion Model.

You are a Self-Discoverer. You’re not religious, but you’ve created your own kind of spirituality. Introspective and thoughtful, you tend to look inward for the divine. You are distrusting of all forms of organized religion. You especially dislike religious gurus and leaders, who you feel are charlatans.

What’s Your Religious Philosophy?
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So this quiz was utter crap.

See, the reason I don’t usually post these bloody things anymore is because they’re written by idiots. You can see this by my answers.

1. What best describes how you feel about belief in God / religion?

❎ You think it is impossible to tell whether God exists or not. No. Not when he talks to me.

❎ You feel that sincere belief will lead you to God. No. I could be sincere yet wrong.

✅ You think beliefs are no more than wishes or dreams. Yes. Sadly, most of the time, this is true. Everyone’s beliefs are, ultimately, based on what they hope is true. Even pessimists.

2. You think belief is blind and only the blind believe.

No. Some of us believe because our eyes are wide open and we’re no longer able to close them.

3. You think God:

✅ Will reward you in heaven for your deeds on earth. Yes. But I think another answer is more true.

❎ Was created by man, in our image. No. But certainly our beliefs about him are warped by comparing him to humans.

✅ Is unknowable. Yes. Which is why he has to descend to our level.

✅ Can only be known by actually meeting God. Yes. And I liked this answer best, so I picked it. And since the quiz-writer gave me only one option, this results in an incomplete result. Which you knew already.

4. What’s the closest to truth?

✅ Your soul will survive death. True. But not the most true.

✅ There is no convincing reason why there should be a God. True, in that there’s no reason why there should be a God. But that has nothing to do with why he exists. There’s no reason why there should be a K.W. Leslie, for that matter.

✅ There are simple scientific explanations for the universe. True. Those we’ve discovered have been pretty simple; there’s no reason to expect that future discoveries will be overly complex.

✅ Anything you discover about the divine will be firsthand. MOST true. Not just semantically—because if it’s not firsthand, it’s not your discovery; it’s someone else’s—but because it never sinks into us properly unless it’s something God shows us himself.

5. What viewpoint are you most likely to take issue with?

❎ You can’t enjoy the world without knowing God. You can’t enjoy it with knowing God either. Once you know God, you won’t enjoy the world because it’s so messed up that it grieves him—and you too. Of course, there are also good things in life that you’ll supremely enjoy, and more so once you know God. (I could go either way on this one.)

❎ All religions have equal amounts of truth and corruption. Definitely no issue. Some would say Christianity stands out because it’s the most true, but I would say for this very reason Christianity suffers from more corruption. Just look at all the heretical Christian sects out there. Insisting “They aren’t really Christian” doesn’t properly deal with the issue.

❎ God is omnipotent. No issue. Considering what he’s got me out of, his almightiness is rather obvious.

✅ Spiritual or religious leaders can help you get closer to God. Okay, there I take issue. Religious leaders can be helpful, but most of the time they get in the way because we depend on them when we’re supposed to be depending directly on God.

6. You are most interested in:

✅ Keeping an open mind on the subject of God. Not MOST intrested. But of course yes. Only an idiot thinks he knows it all about God.

✅ Philosophy (as opposed to religion). Still not MOST interested. But curious; I want to know what others think.

❎ Exploring who you are and where you have come from. No; I did that already. I’m still trying to fix what I’ve found.

✅ Serving God’s purpose while you are on earth. Yes.

And my result was that dumbass conclusion, based on the fact that I didn’t just produce knee-jerk Christian reactions to everything.

I am religious. I have not created my own kind of spirituality; I’ve adopted that of others, following the leading of my Rabbi. Okay, I’m introspective and thoughtful, but I don’t look inward for the divine, because he’s not me. I’m not distrusting of organized religion; I believe in a healthy skepticism, and disorganized religion is hardly an alternative. I don’t dislike gurus and leaders, and don’t feel they’re charlatans (though some are, and others are hypocrites); but as a Christian we have only one Rabbi, the Messiah, and we should remember that.

So there.

Stupid Internet Survey: Model of the church.

What is your model of the church?

You scored as Mystical Communion Model.

Your model of the church is Mystical Communion, which includes both People of God and Body of Christ. The church is essentially people in union with Christ and the Father through the Holy Spirit. Both lay people and clergy are drawn together in a family of faith. This model can exalt the church beyond what is appropriate, but can be supplemented with other models.

Mystical Communion Model	72%
Servant Model	72%
Sacrament Model	72%
Herald Model	67%
Institutional Model	22%

What is your model of the church? [Dulles]
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It’s an odd thing when I take a quiz, score the very same percentage on three items, and yet I’m supposedly one more than the others because of what I picked as a priority in the tiebreaker question.

I suspect I scored a 72 percent because the quiz used hymns to determine theology. The churches I attend don’t sing hymns very often, so it’s not accurate to say my church would sing one hymn more often than another. Besides, we all know that worship music is usually picked for the catchy tunes, riffs, and hooks rather than the theology.

If I were to pick a model for myself I would probably choose the Complex Organism Model. The church is the people of God and body of Christ; it is also servant to the world, evangelist to the world, dispenser of the sacraments and grace, and herald of the good news. It’s all these things. It doesn’t matter if I agree with one more than the other, or like one form of ministry most.

I suppose I scored low on the Institutional Model because I believe there should be no such thing as laity within the church; we’re all clergy.

Stupid Internet Survey: Eucharistic theology.

Your eucharistic theology.

You scored as Martin Luther.

You’ll stick with the words of Scripture, and defend this with earthy expressions. You believe in an orthodox Christology. You believe that the bread and wine are the Body and Blood of Christ, but aren’t too sure about where he goes after the meal, and so you don’t accept reservation of the Blessed Sacrament or Eucharistic devotions.

Luther	100%
Catholic	75%
Zwingli	50%
Calvin	50%
Unitarian	0%

Eucharistic theology
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Everyone makes a big deal about how Martin Luther was a sola scriptura kind of guy, but they forget his most famous statement:

Unless I am convinced by scripture and plain reason (I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other) my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen.

In that statement from the Diet of Worms, Luther gave three sources of his theology:

1. Scripture.
2. Plain reason.
3. Conscience.

He might have coined the term “sola scriptura,” and he might even have believed that his reason and conscience had fully conformed to it. In that, he was fooling himself. No one’s theology comes from scripture alone. If that were true, we wouldn’t have so many contradictory theologies—Luther’s main complaint against the church. In fact we’d have no theologies. We couldn’t use reason to determine which of the things in the scriptures must be applied to our lives; we couldn’t use conscience to recognize the difference between truly applying the scriptures and manipulating the text to fit our selfish lives.

As I remind people all the time, postmodernism isn’t a recent worldview. It was always there, if repressed.

Yes I know the result is Luther, not Luthor. Laugh with me!

Good grief, I’ve just talked about my politics.

Your Political Profile

Overall:	40% Conservative 60% Liberal
Social Issues:	0% Conservative 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility:	25% Conservative 75% Liberal
Fiscal Issues:	75% Conservative 25% Liberal
Ethics:	50% Conservative 50% Liberal
Defense and Crime:	50% Conservative 50% Liberal

How Liberal/Conservative Are You?
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Another stupid internet quiz… and it wound up provoking a much larger rant in which I actually talk about my politics. What was I thinking? Oh well, screw it; you’ve probably guessed what most of those beliefs are already.

According to this quiz I’m a moderate. I could’ve told you that. As I’ve said before, my politics are based on how I understand scripture and Christianity, not conservatism or liberalism. But the quiz results came from 20 questions that only superficially go over my politics. I’d rather comment. Judge my answers for yourself.

1. Protecting the environment is a primary social responsibility we have, regardless of how it effects businesses.

Not exactly.

True.

Duh. If you destroy your environment, you can’t do business there.

 

2. Immigration policies…

Should be less strict. Immigrants enhance this country.

Should be more strict. Too many people enter illegally.

Illegal immigrants take jobs no American would take, use few to no government services because they’re illegal and afraid of getting caught and deported, and make a convenient scapegoat for politicians. I say if they come here to work, let ’em work and give ’em green cards. We need more people in this country who are willing to work, not less.

Stupid Internet Survey: What hair color is right for you?

What hair color is right for you?

You scored as Red Head.

You scored as a red head. If this isn’t your current hair color… change it.

Red Head	75%
Brunette	65%
Black	10%
Blonde	5%

What hair color is right for you?
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Of course, this quiz doesn’t take into account my skin tone and complexion at all. It’s entirely based on stereotypes. But I found it interesting that it picked the one color I have ever dyed my hair. (Unless you count all the times I made it green for Halloween.)

Stupid Internet Survey: Which 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘩 character are you?

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?

You scored as Yoda.

Yoda	89%
Mace Windu	64%
Obi-Wan Kenobi	61%
Anakin Skywalker	47%
C-3PO	42%
Padmé Amidala	39%
R2-D2	33%
Darth Vader	31%
Chewbacca	31%
Clone Trooper	28%
General Grievous	14%
Emperor Palpatine	3%

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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Damn right I’m Yoda.

Wait… said that wrong:

Yoda I am, damn right.

Stupid Internet Survey: My theological worldview.

What’s your theological worldview?

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

Emergent/Postmodern	96%
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan	79%
Classical Liberal	75%
Roman Catholic	61%
Neo orthodox	57%
Charismatic/Pentecostal	57%
Reformed Evangelical	54%
Modern Liberal	29%
Fundamentalist	25%

What’s your theological worldview?
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How’d I score so low on Charismatic/Pentecostal? Maybe I’m not dogmatic enough.

Sometimes to beat the heat (’cause my dorm room faces the sun) I have to come to the air-conditioned sanctuary of my local Starbucks. It’s a 20-minute walk from campus, but it’s worth it.

And unlike other Starbucks, it has free wireless internet, so I bring my iBook. The rest of them are “T-Mobile HotSpots,” which means that T-Mobile will charge you $30 a month to get wireless internet from that location. That’s on top of any ISP charges you pay from home. Being cheap, that means I’m not going there when I have my iBook on me (which is fairly often).

Today it’s primarily to beat the heat, drink a frosty Frappuccino, and complain into my Xanga about why I’m still in the Santa Cruz area.

I’ve likely ranted about parts of this before… Part of the Teacher Education Program is fieldwork. This means I observe a high school classroom, teach a few lessons, do a small mountain of paperwork, and finish a sanity-snapping Teacher Performance Assessment for my professor.

This was supposed to start in September 2004. The program found me a class to observe then, but it was in Los Gatos. Without a car it was impossible for me to commute there. They found me another class in November, but the teacher never returned my calls. So I got an Incomplete in the class—until I could complete it in the spring semester.

My supervisor finally found me a teacher to observe… in April. Not January, April. I don’t blame her at all; sometimes these things can’t be helped. But I started three months late. My semester now extends three months into summer. At this point it feels like it’s swallowing up my whole summer. I was hoping to get a job, finally get that car, and spend time with my family. Instead, I’m in an uncomfortably warm dorm room with nothing to do but paperwork.

But wait—there’s more! On the up side, the school year here ends late—in mid-June instead of the first week of June—so I had some time to get some work in. Now school’s out. The paperwork’s not done… and the teacher appears to have dropped off the face of the earth. I can’t fault him for wanting to take a vacation, but I want to be done, dangit, and go home.

So I’m pretty frustrated right now. But the situation is out of my control. My options are to sit around here, sans job, and wait… or arrange to blow it off until August, which I’m not sure I can do. Plus there’s that job situation—who on earth is going to hire me to work for only two months? (And no, I am not going to lie about how long I can actually work there. I don’t do that.)

Stupid Internet Survey: What age do you act?

What age do you act?

You are 22 Years Old.

22

Under 12:	You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view—and you look at the world with awe.
13-19:	You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29:	You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences.
30-39:	You are a thirtysomething at heart. You’ve had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+:	You are a mature adult. You’ve been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What age do you act?
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I think I act younger than 22.

Stupid Internet Survey: Personality tests.

What’s your personality type?

ESFP: The Performer

You are a natural performer and happiest when you’re entertaining others. A great friend, you are generous, fun-loving and optimistic. You love to laugh—and you like almost all people equally. You accept life as it is, and you do your best to make each day fantastic. You would make a good actor, designer, or counselor.

Your #2 Match:	ESTP: The Doer
Your #3 Match:	ENFP: The Inspirer
Your #4 Match:	ENTP: The Visionary
Your #5 Match:	ISFP: The Artist

What’s your personality type?
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Just out of curiosity I took a personality test. It’s off the internet so I don’t expect the results to be all that scientific.

The last time I took one of these things was in 1987 and I wound up an INTP. So either my mind has been taken over by aliens or two-thirds of my personality has joined the dark side. What’s more likely is that this test is just plain wrong. I am not an extrovert. I like people; but I also like a lot of alone time. As to the career choices:

1. I tried acting, and I am not good at it; I’m too egocentric.
2. I was a graphic designer for four years and got thoroughly tired of the pretentious jerks that the business is clogged with.
3. I don’t like listening to people complain about their problems because 80 percent of the time they won’t do a bloody thing to change things.

But I’m not going to knock the rest of the description of me.

…Then again, who would? All these personality types have nice, positive, fortune-cookie-like statements to make about anyone who takes the bloody test. Everyone’s a “doer,” “achiever,” “artist.” No one’s a “functionary,” “drone,” “space-filler,” “pain in the ass,” etc. Just once I’d like to see one of these tests respond, “You are an unpleasant, obnoxious person. Please live alone.” But these tests never ask questions about disorders.

For the most part, I am suspicious of these tests because I keep running into their pseudo-scientific cousins—the tests that determine whether you’re sanguine, melancholy, choleric, or phlegmatic. This comes from Hippocrates and Galen’s theory that health comes from a proper balance of four liquids (or “humors”)—blood, black bile, yellow bile, or phlegm—which are related to air, earth, fire, and water. Of course, if you’re too sanguine of a person, this means you can always be cured by a good bleeding.

Personality types are too complex to be easily sorted into 16 categories based on four factors that are loosely based on ancient Greek science. Besides, personalities change over time. People mature, realize which things are more important to them, get rid of hypocrisies and inconsistencies (or find excuses—which work for them—for such behavior) and once they determine who they “are,” they spend the rest of their lives conforming to their self-generated stereotypes. It’s particularly sad if they can’t stand who they are; such are the people I met in my counseling groups.

My new hall doesn’t smell as much like ass as my last hall! So that’s nice.

I suspect it may have had something to do with the bathroom doors being open all the time. The bathroom doors here are spring-closed; poorly ventilated, but all the smells do stay in the bathroom.

Stupid Internet Survey: Me, a Goth?

What’s your high school stereotype?

You scored as Goth.

Goth	56%
Ghetto gangsta	50%
Loner	50%
Stoner	44%
Drama nerd	31%
Prep/Jock/Cheerleader	25%
Punk/Rebel	25%
Geek	0%

What’s your high school stereotype?
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The nutty thing about this survey is that I never hung out with the Goths in high school. I hung out with skaters and punks and stoners and drama nerds. (And sometimes cheerleaders and preppies and jocks… it was a small school, and I didn’t really limit myself to one group.)

I was the nonconformist type. I’m not talking about the nonconformists who look like every other nonconformist; that never made any sense to me. I mean really nonconformist. I didn’t want to look like any other student. So I started to wear ties and carry a briefcase. Hey, nobody else was doing it.

Not even the teachers, who were worried about it for a while. See, they recognize the other categories. Those are known quantities, and they figure they can deal with them. But when you get someone who doesn’t do anything they way that other students do, it freaks ’em out a little.

I take pride in the fact that I was so nonconformist, my parents once had to attend a teacher conference about it. “He totally ignores peer pressure,” they were told. “That’s a bad thing?” they responded. Well… yeah, it can be. We teachers often use peer pressure in order to get kids to do things. When kids don’t respond to that, it means extra work for the teachers. They’d have to spend extra time trying to figure me out. (Which was part of the point. I don’t always like being a known quantity.)

But I never did put on the face paint and the black clothing. About the only thing close to Goth that I ever did was listen to the Cure and Nine Inch Nails. But I still liked U2 more.

Update, 11/17/2024: Mia Goth. (Sorry. Couldn’t resist the pun.)

It’s also interesting to look at these high school stereotypes from the perspective of a teacher. There are so many of them that match my own high school experience.

There’s the mouthy kids who want to contribute their limited experience to each lesson. There’s the kids who never take off their cowboy hats. (At my school, it was the kid who never took off his fedora. He even wore it to graduation.) There’s the kids who’d rather hang out with the teacher than “those children” in their class. There’s the art geeks, the band geeks, the sports geeks (they can’t play, but they get to do stats and operate the control board), the video geeks, the secretly-smart girls who play stupid because they think it attracts boys (and it does, but it attracts stupid ones)—and many other categories too numerous to name.

Fun to observe. Fascinating because I now know how to manipulate the system. (That talent would have come in handy when I was in high school, but it’s a good thing I didn’t then have it—I might have used my powers for evil.)

Contributing to the glut of stupid internet quizzes.

Since I was poking around QuizFarm, I decided what the heck and wrote a quiz called "How Pentecostal/Charismatic are you?" It's loosely based on the 16 Fundamental Truths of the Assemblies of God, plus sociologists’ usual definitions of Pentecostal and charismatic.

It’s not the greatest quiz ever, of course. There are a lot of flaws in the QuizFarm system. It doesn’t give you 50-50 choices in the results, it doesn’t allow you to weight certain questions higher than others… but it’s all in fun, after all.

Some people might find it a little eye-opening. See, there’s a lot of people who call themselves Pentecostal, when they’re really just charismatic. Probably a more simple definition is this: Charismatics believe the Holy Spirit still acts, and miracles still happen, but Pentecostals attach some rather specific theological interpretations to the Spirit’s acts and some of those miracles. (This is why you can find charismatics in every church, but Pentecostals tend to stay within Pentecostal churches.)

Which reminds me… I need to get my final done for my Pentecostal Spirituality class.

Stupid Internet Survey: What political party should I be in?

What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?

You scored as Green.

Green	83%
Republican	75%
Anarchism	75%
Democrat	67%
Communism	33%
Socialist	33%
Nazi	0%
Fascism	0%

What Political Party Do Your Beliefs Put You In?
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I took another one of those stupid polls. This one's on what political party you might best fit. It was very poorly written, because it turned out that I should be a member of the Green party. That's right—the party where its best-known members are a has-been consumer journalist and a guy who wants to legalize weed and sell it in clubs. Knowing what I do about it's platform, about the only things I agree with the Greens on are grassroots organization and environmentalism (though not to the degree of most Greens I have met; I still eat meat).

So I went back and looked at the questions. Man, they'll let any idiot write a quiz, won't they? In essence, it's all superficial junk, and in order to determine whether you're a Fascist, the quiz asks you, "Do you agree with the teachings of Benito Mussolini?" Okay, who other than a history nut (or an Italian civics teacher) is going to know what any of those teachings are? In general, the thing was horribly written, and slanted a little too much against Republicans. (Plus, when I altered one answer and punched it in again, I came out Fascist. How do you go from Green to Fascist with one answer? For that matter, how do you get an equal score for Republican and Anarchist?)

Oh well; the stupid thing is supposed to be all in fun anyway.

Stupid Internet Survey: What’s my Christian tradition?

Christian Traditions Selector (beta)

Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God	100%
Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England	98%
Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene	98%
Presbyterian/Reformed	94%
Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic)	92%
Congregational/United Church of Christ	92%
Lutheran	90%
Eastern Orthodox	82%
Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist	72%
Church of Christ/Campbellite	57%
Seventh-Day Adventist	56%
Roman Catholic	48%
Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.)	44%

Christian Traditions Selector
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Like I needed a quiz to tell me.

Stupid Internet Survey: The Dante's Inferno Test.

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory! Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
level	score
Purgatory (repenting believers)	extreme
Level 1: Limbo (virtuous nonbelievers)	high
Level 2 (lustful)	low
Level 3 (gluttonous)	moderate
Level 4 (prodigal and avaricious)	very low
Level 5 (wrathful and gloomy)	very low
Level 6: The City of Dis (heretics)	very low
Level 7 (violent)	very low
Level 8: The Malebolge (fraudulent, malicious, panderers)	moderate
Level 9: Cocytus (treacherous)	very low
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Stupid Internet Survey: Which religion is right for me?

Which religion is the right one for you?

You scored as Christianity. Your views are most similar to those of Christianity. Do more research on Christianity and possibly consider being baptized and accepting Jesus, if you aren’t already Christian.

Christianity is the second of the Abrahamic faiths; it follows Judaism and is followed by Islam. It differs in its belief of Jesus, as not a prophet nor historical figure, but as God in human form. The Holy Trinity is the concept that God takes three forms: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost (sometimes called Holy Spirit). Jesus taught the idea of instead of seeking revenge, one should love his or her neighbors and enemies. Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to save humankind and forgive people’s sins.

Christianity	83%
Buddhism	71%
Judaism	54%
Paganism	38%
Islam	25%
Hinduism	25%
Agnosticism	25%
Satanism	25%
Atheism	21%

Which religion is the right one for you?
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At left, one of the few quizzes I’ve found amusing enough to take.

I think I would have been surprised if it turned out I wasn’t Christian. Some of those questions are rather obviously biased towards or against Christians. I am a bit surprised that I scored what I did on the agnostic/satanist/atheist scale; but not too surprised about the Buddhist/Judaism results. I believe those religions are more right than wrong. But, since I’m a Christian, obviously I think Jesus is the most right.

Jesus is just all right with me…

Stupid internet questionnaire.

And now, some personal information that you can only find out through Internet spam.

Here’s a questionnaire my brother sent me once. I like this better than the last superficial list of likes/dislikes I posted.

1. Last movie you saw in a theater. Ray.
2. What book are you reading now? Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abegnale. Better than the movie. (The book usually is.) Finished Elmer Gantry Friday.
3. Favorite board game. “Mr. Leslie Gets to Mess With Your Head,” which I invented. After that, I suppose Outburst.
4. Favorite magazine. Christianity Today.
5. Favorite smells. Brewing coffee. Pine incense. Clean laundry.
6. Comfort foods. Cheez-its. Pea soup. Mom’s enchiladas.
7. Worst feeling in the world. Knowing the trouble I’m in is my own bloody fault.
8. First thing you think of when you wake up. Where’s the %$#@ snooze button?
9. Favorite fast food place. Quizno’s. Pizza My Heart. McDonald’s.
10. Future child’s name. Jesus. Why aren’t there any Anglo kids named Jesus?
11. The most important thing in life. Loving God and one another. I know, Jesus said it first and it sounds like the perfect Christian answer, but I’ve come to believe it’s quite true.
12. If I had lots of money I would… pay off loans. Then I could do whatever I wanted and not worry about an income.
13. Favorite collectable. Jazz CDs. Bible reference books.
14. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? No. But I do have some.
15. Storms: Cool or scary? Neither. Annoying.
16. First car. A Honda CVCC that my Dad figured he could teach me to drive, so he put it in my name. It never really was mine. I don’t drive.
17. Favorite color. Green. Either hunter or kelly; sometimes lime.
18. Do you eat the stems of broccoli? Yes.
19. If you could dye your hair any color, it would be: Strawberry blonde; it’s the only other color that looks natural on me. I have made it that color a few times.
20. In how many states have you lived? California and Texas.
21. In how many cities have you lived? Seven: San Jose, Houston, Hayward, Vacaville, Sacramento, Dixon, Scotts Valley, Grass Valley.
22. Favorite place to relax. My room.
23. Favorite sports to watch. Basketball. Football. Rugby.
24. One nice thing about the person who gave you this. Chad Leslie is one of the coolest guys I know; and “cool” is a term I seldom use about people.
25. What is under your bed? Mike Venegas’s bed.
26. Of the people you’ll send this to, who will likely respond first? Heck if I know. This is a blog, not email. People can copy this list all they like.
27. Least likely? Mom. She’s not on Xanga and it’s hard enough to get her to write email.
28. Whom do you hate? I don’t hate people. They may annoy me sometimes, but I reserve hatred for only inanimate objects. I cannot hate what God loves. Not even the devil.