Subj : Re: religion quiz
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 03:44:34

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns96C9C88E444EE3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 

> weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns96C9C5A0D13473v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>> 
>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>> news:Xns96C9C3FE62D1A3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>> 
>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>> news:Xns96C9C241E5EBD3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9C1AA69D4E3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9C06B3B8BD3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> K <notme@nothere.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96C9DA5B9F8E0notmenotherecom@ 216.196.97.142:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:3o6djfF4fd01U1@individual.net:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=10907
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> atheism     100%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Satanism     88%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Paganism     58%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> agnosticism  58%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Buddhism     46%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Islam        42%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Judaism      33%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Christianity 13%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hinduism      0%
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure on the Satanism part, but other than that, I'd
>>>>>>>>>>>>> say 
>>>> it's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> pretty spot on.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>  I rather get the feeling that the person who devised the
>>>>>>>>>>>>  quiz 
>>>>>> sees
>>>>>>>>>>>>  both 
>>>>>>>>>>>> satanism and atheism as the same thing. For some reason a
>>>>>>>>>>>> lot of the religeous types I've met think that just because
>>>>>>>>>>>> you don't believe in god you are working for the other
>>>>>>>>>>>> side. It never 
>>>> really
>>>>>>>>>>>> seems to sink in that 
>>>>>>>>>>>>  I don't believe in either heaven or hell. It's one of
>>>>>>>>>>>>  those beliefs 
>>>>>>>>>>>> without any evidence that seem to abound when you mention
>>>>>>>>>>>> you 
>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>> an athiest, like the one that because we don't follow the
>>>>>>>>>>>> rules layed down by some guy off his rocker in the desert
>>>>>>>>>>>> that we have 
>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>>>>>> morals at all. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I got a high atheism score and a low satanism score. Face
>>>>>>>>>>> it; 
>>>>>> you're
>>>>>>>>>>> just evil.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>  I'm not evil I'm just differently moralled.
>>>>>>>>>> I think part of it is that I don't see life as being sacred
>>>>>>>>>> and 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>>> prefer that people followed their own moral codes that they
>>>>>>>>>> had thought about rather than blindly following whatever
>>>>>>>>>> doctrine was layed out by priests of any denomination.
>>>>>>>>>>  It's that free will thing, they talk big about it but when
>>>>>>>>>>  push comes to 
>>>>>>>>>> shove....
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> (The above was what we like to call "A Joke".)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Just a piss poor one.
>>>>>>>>  I knew you went being serious, hence the light hearted
>>>>>>>>  response. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Woohoo!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (What just happened?)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I dunno, I'm still waiting for you to get my topology joke.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What? When?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> DOES NOBODY BOTHER TO READ MY BLOODY POSTS!!
>>>>  Your post: "see if you can find an introductory book on
>>>>  topological surgery. Or look on the web. The web knows all."
>>>> 
>>>> My Post: <looks on the web> COOL, very pretty. OF course now I have
>>>> the contents 
>>>> from my mug of tea all over the place.
>>> 
>>> Haaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa...
>>> 
>>> (Seriously, what? Is that some kind of bizarre Klein Bottle joke? I
>>> don't get it.)
>>> 
>> 
>>  I thought that one of the standard classes of topology shapes is a 
>> sphere with a handle type attatchment, which can be deformed in many 
>> ways,for example into a mug shape. Now do you get it? Or am I just 
>> totally wrong about what I though I knew, which is more likely.
> 
> Ah...
> 
> (You're talking about a 2-D handle body...a closed surface in R^3
> with, for lack of a better term, handles. If you have n handles, the
> surface has genus n. Cool fact: take any tiling of one of these things
> with polygons, the number of faces(F), edges(E) and vertices(V) is
> related by V - E + F = X(g), where X is supposed to be the Greek
> letter chi and represents the Euler characteristic of the surface.
> This is related to the genus, number of handles, by X(g) = 2 - 2*g. If
> you try it on a sphere, which has 0 handles, you end up with the
> classic polyhedral formula.) 
> 
> ((I need to shut up now.))
> 

But more importantly, was it funny?
 Ted

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