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To: jbe who wrote (84579)	8/1/2000 1:24:47 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

I'm currently reading all the main books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I'd be a Buddhist (Tibetan) too if it wasn't for some rigid doctrinal expressions. It is a wonderful, loving religion, though, that embraces humanity and lets us love ourselves while seeking our path to higher truth. I thought the quiz was a neat little example of philosophical groupings. Neo-Pagan doesn't mean you dance naked at midnight with the virgins (it doesn't preclude it, though). It is a Naturalist ontological view point embraced by those who try to make sense of the world by looking at it with open eyes. I've been telling people for years that I was probably a Pagan.

To: jbe who wrote (84579)	8/1/2000 2:05:21 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

What'd you do to get Scientology, Joan? I went through it with a basic agnostic/ atheist/ humanist line, and also came out 100% UU, along with 91% Humanist, 79% liberal Protestant, 77% atheist/agnostic, but only 44% Scientology. Scientology was wedged between New Age and reform Judaism. Unitarians may be the world's mellowest people, and apparently the most tolerant belief wise, but as a lapsed Catholic I have this funny feeling about religions where you don't exactly believe in [Gg]od[s]. Back in the early days of usenet, free thinking types who were the subject of frequent lectures from the more pious started signing off as members of HASA, which stood for Heathen Atheistic Scum Alliance, or something like that. For more specificity, they would assign themselves to H/A/S divisions within the broader alliance. Sticks and stones, and all that. Cheers, Dan.

To: jbe who wrote (84579)	8/1/2000 2:18:03 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't know much about liberal Quakers, in fact I really didn't know there were liberal Quakers. Although I did just finished In the Heart of the Sea- so I know more than I used to about whaling Quakers. I would have thought I was more of a Buddhist too. I wonder which kind of Buddhists they were selecting for. i favor Tibetan Buddhism which is quite different from other, much more contemplative, branches. Perhaps we are more Buddhist than they THINK we are.