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Personality Quiz for Beliefs


11 Jan

I took this Belief Quiz at BeliefNet. It was actually pretty accurate.

1. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
4. Baha’i Faith (81%)
5. Neo-Pagan (78%)
6. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (73%)
7. New Age (73%)
8. Reform Judaism (73%)
9. Secular Humanism (67%)
10. New Thought (66%)
11. Orthodox Quaker (59%)
12. Scientology (59%)
13. Theravada Buddhism (59%)
14. Mahayana Buddhism (58%)
15. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (56%)
16. Taoism (52%)
17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (52%)
18. Orthodox Judaism (47%)
19. Nontheist (44%)
20. Sikhism (44%)
21. Islam (41%)
22. Jainism (35%)
23. Jehovah’s Witness (34%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (32%)
25. Hinduism (28%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (25%)
27. Roman Catholic (25%)

#1 includes Anglican or Episcopalian faiths of which I was brought up in. I enjoy the Episcopal religion because it allows me to question and doesn’t condemn me for not attending church. Although I feel the need for such regimen, it isn’t practical with my current fears and foibles. I am “workin’ on it” though.

#2 doesn’t surprise me at all. I have a very strong Quaker background on my mother’s side of the family and there have been times when I’ve been attracted to the simplicity it offers. There is a Quaker-based church here and it is one I might go to if the Episcopalian cathedral is a bit overwhelming.

Three Weeks – Happy Sigh


14 Dec

It’s been an official three weeks without any panic attacks. I’ve had a touch of nerves, but no full out panic attacks that send me to my medicine cabinet. This also means that my hands have steadied considerably. I could not have strung the two rosaries I made if my hands hadn’t been steady enough to hold the beading wire.

I have also had a week without the pain twitch in my left side. I’ve reduced my med for this from four times a day to three times a day. This means, instead of breaking my three normal meals a day up into four (since the med requires a full meal in the stomach, not just any old food), that I am now back to three.

I am working on my Christmas cards today. Not that it is difficult, I just don’t want to send out a card that is unreadable. I haven’t done any extensive handwriting in such a while, that it looks terrible. I may have to print out greetings instead, which I hate to do – so impersonal.

If you aren’t reading this post in a reader, you can see that I went with a chocolatey Christmas theme. I will be putting the other one back after the holidays.

A Few Things


24 Nov

First of all, that IE Script Error message that was driving me to madness, has been taken care of. I had to uninstall Flock, then turn off or disable Java and Javascript in the browsers I keep to see how my blog looks in them. That’s Opera, Chrome, and IE7 which I cannot uninstall. I took a chance and left Java on in Firefox, and have had no errors at bootup since.

Thanks to everyone who provided advice or sympathy.

Next, in case you hadn’t seen it, yet, I am cross-posting my blog at Livejournal. Since there are a few people I wish to keep up with there, it was easiest to give in and open a blog there. If you prefer LJ and have a blog and wish to Friend me there, feel free.

I am attempting to be more social, these days, which is difficult since I have literally no life outside of this computer. I have no intention of jumping out into the Spokane social scene and finding friends, but I have seen how isolating myself on the computer has begun to hurt me.

It is easier, when the cold weather comes, for me to be sociable, than it is during warm weather. My Reverse Seasonal Disorder at work. (Shut up, Cindy, I can hear you laughing!)* I am hoping that if I become sociable enough during the winter, that with a bit of effort, I can keep up the momentum through Spring and hopefully on into Summer.

We shall see.

I will “talk” to people but it’s best to do so either via Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, or Email.

I tried Gtalk, but got fed up with it. I’m just not ready for that sort of interaction.

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* I love Cindy, so I can tell her to “shut up”. ;-)

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