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mamadebTake the quiz: "WHAT RELIGION BESTS SUITS YOU?"
Category Unknown
You don't fit into any of the above categories, so perhaps before you get angry or confused, check what other religion(s) you scored the highest on. For example, you might be a Christian-Pagan, or a Discordian-Wiccan. Just use a bit of logic. However, according to this test, you're simply 100% YOU. You don't fit into any of the world's boxes.
Yeah, actually, I *do*. And if I could find an email address for the creator of this quiz, I'd tell hir so.
I just made a comment on this very theme in
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imkalena's livejournal. That the world isn't divided up into Christians, pagans and atheists.
ETA: Found the email address. Emailed hir. Was, unfortunately, *nice*.
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Date: 2004-07-08 04:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 04:22 pm (UTC)In my case, though, they were probably right.
This puts me in mind of explaining why there's no "chapel" non-denominational enough if there's a big honking cross in it when the groom and his family are all, you know, Jewish.
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Date: 2004-07-08 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 04:35 pm (UTC)One of the places they'd looked at was a "Chapel of All Faiths" that, yes, featured a big honnking cross.
The wedding unfortunatly never happened and my brother eventually married someone else. In a registry office. Given that my sister-in-law is Catholic, it was probably the right choice. Also, my nephew was born four months later, so they didn't have a long time to *plan*.
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Date: 2004-07-08 04:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-07-08 04:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 04:53 pm (UTC)Don't think I'd fit into any of `em ...
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Date: 2004-07-08 05:04 pm (UTC)I took the quiz a second time, answering as if I was Muslim, and got a strange blend of flavors of Christian, Wiccan, and Unknown. I suppose that anything polytheistic would end up as Unknown by default. Nice to know that, of the world's top nine religious categories (according to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/statistics/)), all but two are "unknown."
Silly children.
Speaking of religion, though, I keep meaning to ask you about it (by IM or comment). I started looking at your journal after you friended me from nraged wibblechat, and it's always fascinating for me to meet other slashers with strong religious beliefs. What I found interesting about your website was that, although I read your fantastic essays on integrating fannish activity with Orthodox practice, I couldn't find as much about the question of how slash itself fits within Jewish law. I hope I'm not offending you by asking this (and if you've been asked a thousand times, which you probably have, feel free not to answer), but I've recently been asked myself how I integrate slash and beliefs, as a fairly serious Christian, and I'm curious about your response.
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Date: 2004-07-08 05:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 05:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 05:29 pm (UTC)However - the fact is the Bible does not approve of anal sex. It also doesn't approve of driving on Shabbat or eating bacon. And the penalties are worse for those.
What it doesn't do is regulare *thought*. I can write about what I want and read about what I want. I can have my guys eat huge treif feasts before taking off in their car on a lovely Saturday afternoon and finding a secluded spot to do...things to each other, and I'd be violating nothing. I seriously do not believe that my stories will make any men gay. :)
To make it easier on *me*, I will not slash any religious Jewish character, so I won't write Chaim Potok slash. And I will not take Blair Sandburg and make him religious and then slash him.
(It might be fun to write a gen story where he does tshuva, though.)
And one day I'll write something about the Levitical forbidden relationship laws and how they're designed for a polygynous society.
How do you do it?
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Date: 2004-07-08 05:43 pm (UTC)Oh, I hope you do! I'd really like to read it.
(I confess, I'd been wondering for a while too about how you balance religion and slash, but was too shy/reticent to ask.)
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Date: 2004-07-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-07-08 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 06:38 pm (UTC)And one of my friends is a very religious Christian who writes slash and shounen ai (she sticks to the lower ratings for her personal comfort... I'd be happy to hook you two up though, she has an LJ and I'm sure she's like to discuss it)
Not sure where I'd draw the line with Jewish characters... I mean I wouldn't write Talmud slash or something (sorry for the mental image), but... I don't know. There really aren't any Jewish characters in my fandoms (Harry Potter and anime). (Who's Blair Sandburg)
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Date: 2004-07-08 07:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 07:50 pm (UTC)Me, I'm a liberal Jew (or an agnostic, if we go by the little test thing... huh? I totally believe in G-d, kthnxbye!) who can't bring herself to write any brand of smut.
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Date: 2004-07-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-08 07:52 pm (UTC)My friend Scott habitually refers to them as the "Baptists for Buddha," since it makes as much sense. And the summer when their advertising slogan was "Why not?" we both responded with, "Do you want that alphabetically or chronologically?"
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Date: 2004-07-08 07:58 pm (UTC)Let me know what, if any kind of response you get.
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Date: 2004-07-08 08:37 pm (UTC)And, honestly, I'll talk about anything.
"It's a Jewish thing. If you have a few minutes, I'll tell you about it."
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Date: 2004-07-08 08:51 pm (UTC)Blair Sandburg...
Date: 2004-07-08 10:09 pm (UTC)Most sensible people believe that Blair is Jewish, which might have something to do with him making a joke about his bar mitzvah. :) Some complete idiots think that isn't conclusive at ALL and that clearly he's not even a little bit Jewish.
The fact that non-Jews don't tend to have bar mitzvahs does not seem to faze these people, but since some of them also maintain that Blair would NEVER even TOUCH a gun (he fires guns at people numerous times in canon), I think we can safely dismiss them as either dumb or crazy or both.
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-09 12:11 am (UTC)Rabbi Yochanan/Resh Lakish = OTP.
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:18 am (UTC)How many Orthodox slashers are there, I wonder? More than I ever expected, it sounds like.
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:23 am (UTC)I was referring to [Unknown site tag] (although you won't find actual slash on her journal). And yes, there seem to be a good few of you (assuming you are one). You should start an LJ community!
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-09 12:33 am (UTC)And yes I'd have to count myself, I went from hating slash to reading some of it to actually writing it... not so much yet, but a few things up on ff.net and in LJs. (The few, the proud, the Harry/Ron folks) I'm picky about what I read too of course... though I suppose I do seek it out at least sometimes..
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Date: 2004-07-09 12:43 am (UTC)As far as Harry/Ron goes, if you haven't been reading Resonant's stuff, you've been missing out.
Hanging (http://trickster.org/res/hanging.html)
and its companion piece:
The Hang of It (http://trickster.org/res/hang.html)
Of course, her best work is a Harry/Draco novel-length piece: Transfigurations (http://trickster.org/res/transfig.html).
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Date: 2004-07-09 04:59 am (UTC)There are a number of us. In all kinds of different fandoms. Some of us are stealthy, though. Flying under the radar of our communities or our circle of frum friends who wouldn't "get it" or whatever.
Another Orthodox Jew
Date: 2004-07-09 07:03 am (UTC)Anyway, it's a pretty stupid quiz, especially the Discordian answers. Discordianism is not the stupid set of beliefs it is made out to be in this test. And most of the answers given made me wince. And where is Judaism? Where is Islam? etcetc.
Maybe you should try the Belief-O-Matic instead. It identified me as either a Reform or an Orthodox Jew last time I filled it out.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
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Date: 2004-07-09 07:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-09 07:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-11 08:06 pm (UTC)You mean something like:
"Draco wiped the barbecue sauce from his face with the end of his robe sleeve. The ribs were so sweet and succulent, the meat was just falling off the bone. This new cook, Bubba the House Elf, really knew his way around a pig smoker.
He looked over at Harry, who was sensually sucking the head of a crawfish from his plate of New Orleans Style Etoufee.
'Potter, as soon as I finish my dinner, I'm going to bugger you senseless.'
Harry's face broke out in a wide grin. This was going to be a good night."
(So there's my first attempt at fic, even. :D)