Meme (Snagged from snowgrouse)

[capri0mni]

(Reads the text description... Um, you mean, I'm a Quaker? Gee, I could have told you that! ;-) nice picture, though...)

What I find amusing: That I'm equal parts White Lighter and Discordian.
What I found annoying: That this quizmaker (like so many) set "spirit" up as the opposite of "material." I believe that spirit is expressed through material beings... that when I scritch my kitty, I'm communing with a spirit....

Okay, back to Screnzy...

You scored as Mystic, You are a Mystic. Practical magic isn't really your thing; you much prefer to take the inner roads to self-development and spiritual evolution. You find ecstasy in meditative silence and commune with the divine without aid of any church or religious leader to guide you. You will seek the light of heaven in your own way, even if that way is not apparent to the casual observer. </td> White Lighter 75% Discordian 75% Mystic 75% True Alternative 70% Otherkin 65% Spiritualist 50% Magician 50% Aimless Eclectic 40% What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

Comments

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm a Quaker, too (kinda like being a Pepper, eh?). Somehow that reminds me that I've heard about an Earlham College song with the lines -

"Fight, Fight, Inner Light!
Kill, Quakers, Kill!
Knock 'em Down, Beat 'em Senseless!
Do It til We Reach Consensus!"

Plus, their sports teams used to be called the "Fightin' Quakers", then after they determined that might be somewhat contradictory, they became the "Hustlin' Quakers"! Finally by now they're just the "Quakers", but least they didn't become the "Pimpin' Quakers"!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

LOL! I bet that's a spoof, though. One thing about Quakers: they very rarely take themselves too seriously.

...I considered attending Earlham, at one point, during my senior year of high school, and majoring in Peace Studies. ... But then, I decided it would be too far from home.

[pedanther]

I'm reminded of the old story about the burglar who's searching for valuables in a Quaker's living room, when a voice from the doorway says, "I would not hurt you for the world, friend, but by some mischance you are standing on the precise spot at which I am about to fire this shotgun."

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah. That's a good one.

I also like this one:



The Quaker and the Mule

A Quaker farmer had a mule that would not plow straight. It would go off to the right and munch a bunch of weeds, or veer off to the left to lean on the fence, and the furrows showed it.

His Baptist neighbor would pass by on the road and laugh and allow as how he knew what would straighten out those rows,

"two-by-four upside the head, that'll straighten the mule out, and the rows will take care of themselves."

"No, said the Quaker,"in so far as it depends upon me, I must be at peace with all God's creatures, provoking though they may be." The Baptist went along home, shaking his head and muttering, "a two-by-four would do it."

The furrows got more crooked every day, and finally the Quaker dropped the reins, and went around to the front of the mule, looked him in the eye and said,

"Friend I think that thee is taking advantage of me because thee knows that I am a Quaker, and therefore I cannot and will not beat thee. What thee has not considered is that I can sell thee to the Baptist....!"

From that day on, the mule plowed the straightest rows in the county...

[pedanther]

LOL! That's a good one, too.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I like it, in part, because it recognizes that mules are not dumb beasts...

And that one of the things that makes non-violence workable is considering the alternative...