[Buddha-l] Re: Speaking of tests...

[Chris]

Did it; 46. Not surprising, given what I know about Richard and myself
(more about Richard, thanks to his on-going self disclosure on this
list, than about myself!)
Why set the bar at 45, Richard? Our group scores from 40 to 49.
They're right on about having a distrust for organized religion. That's me!

On 10/13/05, Alex Wilding <alex at chagchen.org> wrote:
> Richard P. Hayes wrote:
> > Have any of you taken the test called "What's your spiritual type?" on
> > www.beliefnet.com? It doesn't take much time, and it's sort of fun. I
> > got a score of 40 out of 100 (which, by the way, is considered a
> > perfect score).
> >
> I took the test the other day about - what was it now? - oh yes, male and
> female brain. Came out slightly above average on both tests, and therefore
> quite androgynously brained. So what did I learn from that? Basically
> zilch,
> except for noting that my spiritual narcissism is strong enough to let me
> waste 10 minutes on getting a few lines of computer codes say something
> about *MEEE*.
> The same motive led me to this test, the result of which was "straddler",
> in
> other words no real comment, as informative as the first test. But I did
> learn something else, or at least I got a reminder. Time and again I was
> dissatisfied by *all* the four options because the very perspective from
> which the questions appear to have been written is something I would want
> to
> challenge. Many of the questions suggest an equation of "spirituality" with
> a belief in or relationship with "god" (hellooo .... there are buddhists
> here ...). Some questions seem to take a dichotomy of the supernatural and
> the natural (the latter, it would appear, being "blind") for granted, and
> appeared only to offer choices between a belief in the supernatural and a
> conventional, mechanistic materialism. My own little attitudes were just
> not
> being mapped onto the answers, and surely I'm not *that* unusual?
> I also note that I am still naive enough to have even entertained the idea
> that a multiple choice quizette on spirituality would rise above the level
> of the daily newspaper horoscope.
> AW
>
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