Kevin's Watch Religious Composition (Dec. '05)

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Which description fits you the most?

Poll ended at Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:08 pm

Christian
8
24%
Jewish
1
3%
Muslim
0
No votes
Atheist
9
27%
Agnostic
13
39%
New Age (Wiccan, Pagan, etc.)
2
6%
Eastern (Buddhist, Hindu, Shintoist, Taoist, etc.)
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 33

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For informational purposes only. Poll expires in two weeks.
Last edited by [Syl] on Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I'm confused.... :?
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Seems straightforward. A purely anonymous poll: just submit your vote, no need to idenify yourself or go into an essay about your beliefs (there are already plenty of other threads here for that).
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nothing applies? :roll:
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That's okay, you're not gonna be here much longer anyway...




















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Damn, meant to lock the thread. If anybody wants to discuss it, there are other threads, like the "What do you believe" which is also stickied. But yeah, pretty straightforward. Just vote.

<edit> ok, so I didn't know locking the thread prevented votes. So, looks like I'll have to unlock it.

Now, I know this is a strange request, but let's try to keep the posts in this thread, if anyone really feels the need, religiously neutral. Basically, I'd like to have as unbiased a poll as possible. If you want to talk about what you believe, that's cool, but do it in the aforementioned thread. If you want to start your own spin-off thread, by all means...
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If nothing applies, I'd go for New Age... unless there's an older religion you're an adherent to, like Zoroastrianism or something that I might've left out.
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Post by Menolly »

What if someone is sort of a mixture of two of the choices?
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Thread needs to be left unlocked for QandA.
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Pick the closest one. Unfortunatley, the polls don't allow for multiple choice. This is supposed to be a pretty cut and dried kind of deal.
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Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:That's okay, you're not gonna be here much longer anyway...
;) ;)
hehehheh.....heh.........heheheh...... :shifty:
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I like pie, key lime.

I mean I voted, no longer locked I'm guessing.
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Well, I voted Atheist, because that's what I am for all practical purposes. There are many elements of many religions that I like, or find interesting, but, as I've so often said, when it comes right down to it, I don't have any faith.

I can't accept something simply on that basis.

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OK, last try here...I get a different version of the thread (different posts showing) depending on whether I click on the "last poster" link, or on the thread title.

Perhaps it's ill-omened. ;)

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Avatar wrote: There are many elements of many religions that I like, or find interesting, but, as I've so often said, when it comes right down to it, I don't have any faith.
Pretty much how I feel too :)
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Guess you know what I voted...
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Prebe wrote:Guess you know what I voted...
For higher taxes?
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You'r damned straight HLT!
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higher taxes on rich folk!
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That's the knee-jerkiest, most conditioned reflex post I've ever seen sgtnull. You did that purely from the medula oblongata didn't you? ;)
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