[Buddha-l] Re: political test

Whitney Bodman wbodman at austinseminary.edu
Fri Dec 15 15:00:05 MST 2006


Since someone demanded that lurkers reveals their scores, I will  
delurk and confess to -5.63 and -5.28.

Since most of us are in the double negative quadrant, does that make  
us negative?
Is true sunyata in the center, or is that mindlessness?
Will the Buddhologists comment?

Whit Bodman

>
> Richard Hayes wrote:
>> I'm eager as hell to hear reports of where my beloved fellow  
>> denizens reside on the Political Compass graph. So drop what  
>> you're doing and take the test!
>>
>> http://www.politicalcompass.org/questionnaire
>>
>>
> My score is:
> Economic -8.13
> Social -6.14
>
> Regards
> Erik
>
>
> I have been a little surprised at how just about everyone but  
> Benito has
> landed in the same quadrant. Does this tell us anything about  
> Western people
> who poke around the edges of Buddhism, or does it only tell us who  
> survives
> on buddha-l?
>
> -- 
> Richard P. Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
>

Whitney S. Bodman
Ass't Professor of Comparative Religion
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
100 E. 27th St.
Austin, TX  78705
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