Sai Emrys ([info]saizai) wrote in [info]empaths,
@ 2002-03-29 13:02:00
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Quiz
What is your religion?

Feel free to qualify.

e.g.:
Official Types: (i.e., actually belonging to An Organization)
* christian [denote sub-aspect if relevant]
* muslim
* wiccan
... etc.
Unofficial Types:
* "spiritual"
* generic-"religious" (same as above, but you believe in the existence of a Supreme Being(s), i.e., God) [yeah, that's my definition; let's not argue semantics here]
* atheist - there ain't no god [many subdivisions of this, like "humanist", but those are moral rather than religious in my opinion]
* agnostic - unconvinced either way

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[info]saizai
2002-03-29 01:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm what I like to call a pessimistic agnostic.

I'm an empath too, but I don't believe that it is (as one person I tried to explain it to said) reaching into some "Higher Power".

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[info]naa
2002-03-29 01:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm what you would call a hereditary natural solitary witch but here's a cool place you can check out what beliefs.. it's a long 4 page quiz but really interesting http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html I ended up being a Unitarian Universalism which is pretty close to how I feel. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8041_1.html is info on what that is.

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[info]orien
2002-03-29 01:35 pm UTC (link)
I don't formally belong to anything.

My religion is a mixture of paganism, Buddhism, and shamanism. I am also a Reiki (a type of energy healing) practitioner.

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[info]revxaos
2002-03-29 02:53 pm UTC (link)
Xaotician?

Let's file it under "Spiritual" and leave it at that. ;)

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spiritual
[info]r_macaonghuis
2002-03-29 03:32 pm UTC (link)
primarily shamanic...

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[info]vision314
2002-03-29 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I guess if those are my options I'd be "spiritual".

I consider myself a new ager. I live my life in a spiritual way, but I do not follow any organized religion. The religion that my beliefs are closest in relation to is Wicca.

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[info]spot
2002-03-29 06:06 pm UTC (link)
i believe in the natural existence of paradox. a good friend once responded to this statement by saying "thats a poetic way of saying you're a daoist".

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[info]marielsblue
2002-03-29 07:54 pm UTC (link)
optimistic agnostic-i guess. :) i can be convinced any way..

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[info]alidagurob
2008-07-17 02:32 am UTC (link)
I think we can all concede that there is no empirical way of demonstrating the existence of God or an afterlife.

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[info]onyxhealer
2002-03-29 08:43 pm UTC (link)
I identify as Wiccan, but I don't belong to a coven or follow any one particular tradition (such as Dianic, Gardnerian, etc.) So I'm kind of unofficially official? Or is it officially unofficial? :)

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[info]naa
2002-03-30 05:04 am UTC (link)
That would make you a solitary eclectic wiccan. Solitary as in not part of a coven or anything and eclectic as in selecting individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles. Hope that helps.

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[info]onyxhealer
2002-04-06 10:13 pm UTC (link)
nodnodnod. I'm familiar with the term, but I wasn't sure if most other people on here would be, so I opted for the vaguely whimical approach.

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[info]arctures
2002-04-16 11:18 pm UTC (link)
A good question.

'Quantum Alchemy', which is, truth be told, just the name I give my own beliefs. I believe that all things are connected - in fact, that all things are one, and that all things /are/ the supreme being. Our fractured viewpoints simply the various aspects of its being seeking to understand itself, from ourselves down to the humblest speck of dust.

But then, I've been accused of being strange.

'Spiritual' I suppose, given the choices.

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[info]brian33
2004-02-06 11:26 am UTC (link)
I'm pagan.

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[info]xf89
2004-06-22 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I'm a non-denominational Christian, formerly Wiccan.

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[info]anothertale
2004-07-21 08:00 pm UTC (link)
I'm optomistic agnostic, I suppose. Although I also consider myself spiritual in some aspects. I suppose my beliefs make me almost a chaos magician.. but I'm not sure if that quite fits. I have a large interest in Asatru/Teutonic/Norse magick.

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[info]panther1397779
2004-08-09 09:54 am UTC (link)
agnostic

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[info]darwiniacat
2004-08-16 08:45 am UTC (link)
pessimistic agnostic / pagan / wiccan in training

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the black-sheep answer
[info]hopendures
2004-08-22 02:44 am UTC (link)
I'm a mix of traditional Roman Catholic and my own interpretations of such. An interesting blend...dash of eccentricity here, pinch of chaotic view-points there...you get the hint.

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[info]liseanne27
2004-09-15 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Ok, here goes . . .I have no name for what I am . .
there is no god- the earth and the universe are powerful and run by spirits/energies that are formed by chemistry, BUT we have souls, and are all connected some how, and I use logic and a little taoism, plus some aspects from wiccan, buddism, and pagan/mysticism . . .is that comlicated or what?!

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[info]goth_kittykat
2004-10-01 07:06 pm UTC (link)
i'm baptised in baptist and methodist religions. i personally belive in god and jesus, but i am slowly beliving that there are other gods as well. like all the gods that are thought of are real. i also have some ideas about the after-life that shape my religoius views as well. i belive in reincarnation and karma. i belive that is the cycle we go through. i belive that God watches over us in a since. i belive he's picky about who he helps and not because he doesn't have time to help everyone. but in return i ..well i think his role is very passive but he is there. just mainly for support, someone to talk to. but i belive the whole reincarnation thing stops after your soul has learned all that it has...and some souls progress more than others as usual. and once you have you get ranked on how positive or negative you are. if you are more negative you go to a hellish like place and if you are positive you go to a heaven like place.*shrugs*just my idea.
jess

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[info]amithystblade
2004-10-11 11:42 pm UTC (link)
catholic (so... christian)

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[info]sn0wwball
2004-11-10 10:07 am UTC (link)
I'm proudly agnostic, raised athiest.

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[info]karnil
2004-12-11 09:14 am UTC (link)
Raised Catholic, was a solitary eclectic wiccan for a while, consider myself more eclectic pagan now - with a lot of beliefs about energy tied into my spiritual beliefs, including ch'i, meridians, acupressure, chakras, reiki, etc. I am in a spiritual group that includes a lot of different individual beliefs, but is not a "coven" per se.

So you could categorize me as either "more spiritual than religious" or "pagan."

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[info]twirlandswirl
2004-12-14 07:54 am UTC (link)
Roman Catholic... and proud of it. Still practicing, very often.

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[info]laina_182
2005-02-15 02:02 am UTC (link)
If I really wanted to pick one, I'd have to go with pagan cause it fits my beliefs mostly.

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[info]rhianwen
2005-02-16 04:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm Christian. I was raised mostly in Baptist churches, but I don't exactly fit into any denomination that I'm aware of.

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[info]princesskupo
2005-02-23 07:28 am UTC (link)
I'm a non-denominational Christian born to a Catholic mother and a non-practicing Protestant father, raised Baptist(Baptist school) and short period Wiccan(1 year). Now I consider myself simply a non-denom Christian. Religious Fruit Salad anyone?

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[info]davidfcooper
2005-02-23 03:20 pm UTC (link)
I'm Jewish, which is an ethnic identity as well as a religion.

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[info]queenofhalves
2005-04-07 04:44 pm UTC (link)
neopagan: reclaiming/feri traditions

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[info]lorelei_aisling
2005-06-03 11:22 pm UTC (link)
I am a Bahai.

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[info]poldish
2005-07-19 01:05 pm UTC (link)
i am a chirstain particing in the nazerne church. though i hold some outlandish thoreios on life. mostly i would be closey realted to sha,mins in my pratics of my gifts. tyhough shamis at leats though of my grandfathers tribe do not belive that much diferntly then chrisatians. it is like the oral tradish of those who worship the creator and use the pirtual gifts that we have been given

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[info]violingoddesss
2005-11-11 06:49 am UTC (link)
Christian (Presbyterian). Mind you I practice magick. So the easiest thing to call me might be a christian witch. But I don't use any of the pagan religion. Just the practicing of magick. SO maybe it would be easier to call me a christian mage. But I'm very devoted to my christian faith. For a long time I wanted to go to seminary like my dad. I still might go to get a lesser degree.

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[info]spider__woman
2005-11-24 07:58 am UTC (link)
Pagan. I used to narrow it down further to Wiccan, but have since incorporated other things into my practice so I'm in the midst of creating my own tradition, if you will. My coven is an interesting mix.

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[info]epiphanypoet
2006-01-08 04:13 am UTC (link)
non-denominational christian

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[info]liondaughter
2006-03-03 12:40 am UTC (link)
Hindu

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[info]rens_sanctuary
2006-11-22 08:20 pm UTC (link)
I claim Deism (ie God [or as I like to say He/She/It/They] created the world and left it to us to play in) with the Monkey Wrench varitation when I fill out polls to represent. I s'pose that'd technically make me "spiritual" but I don't like the goody-goody feeling I get from the word spiritual.

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[info]svimmelhet
2006-11-27 07:40 am UTC (link)
Roman Catholic

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[info]rynanne
2007-05-23 08:00 am UTC (link)
One of Jehovah's Witnesses, though I find myself more spiritual than religious.

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[info]grr_islatyx
2008-07-30 11:02 am UTC (link)
Animistic Heathen.

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