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The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised
    #8374578 - 05/07/08 07:35 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

NOW EVEN MIGHTIER THAN BEFORE

Parent categories are in CAPS LOCK, listed by population, with subcategories also listed by population. You may choose two options, although one should suffice for the majority of people. There are 80 options, so I'm hoping this will be adequate for most people.

I'm checking both CHRISTIAN - LDS, and SECULAR - athiest, since both can be used to describe me.

Clarifications are encouraged :thumbup:

What is your religios affiliation? (Check up to two)
You may choose 2
CHRISTIANITY - Roman Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
African Initiated
Pentecostalism
Reformed/Presbyterian/Congregational/United
Anglicanism/Episcopal
Baptist
Methodism
Lutheran
Jehovah's Witnesses
Latter-day Saints
Adventist (Or Seventh Day Adventists or SDAs)
Apostolic/New Apostolic
Restoration Movement
New Thought (Unity, Christian Science, etc.)
Brethren (incl. Plymouth)
Mennonite
Friends/Quakers
Other Christian
ISLAM - Sunni
Shia
Ahmadi
Druze
Other Islam
SECULAR - Humanism
Deism
Pantheism
Rationalism
Freethought
Agnosticism
Atheism
Other secular beleifs
HINDUISM - Vaishnavism
Shaivism
Neo-Hindus and Reform Hindus
Veerashaivas/Lingayats
Other Hindu
CHINESE FOLK RELIGION - Taoism
Confucianism
Other Chinese Folk religion
BUDDHISM - Mahayana
Theravada
Vajrayana/Tibetan
Other Bhuddism
PRIMAL INDIGENOUS (tribal religions) - Animism
Shamanism
Paganism
Other Primal Indigenous
AFRICAN TRADITIONAL AND DIASPORIC - Yoruba
Ewe (Vodou)
Bakongo
Condomble
Santeria
Voodoo
Other African Traditionalist/Diasporic
SIKHISM
JUCHE (North Korean Communism)
SPIRITISM
JUDAISM - Conservative
Unaffiliated and Secular
Reform
Orthodox
Reconstructionist
Other Judaism
BAHAI
JAINISM - Svetambara (White clad)
Digambar (Sky clad)
SHINTO
CAO DAI
TENRIKYO
NEOPAGANISM - Wiccan
Asatrun
Neo-druidism
Polytheistic reconstructionist
Other Neopaganist
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM
RASTAFARIANISM
ZOROASTRIANISM
OTHER (please avoid this option)
STAL


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8374785 - 05/07/08 08:19 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

wow, so many choices


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8374949 - 05/07/08 08:59 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Looks like Atheism is in the lead...

Go Fightin' Athiests!



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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: gotcha420haha]
    #8375000 - 05/07/08 09:11 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

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wow, so many choices



This is the world we live in.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8375136 - 05/07/08 09:45 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Humanism

Agnosticism


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8375701 - 05/07/08 11:54 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Damn, I thought you said Christian - LSD for a moment.

You know, just a little bit of a different take on communion, eh?


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8375820 - 05/08/08 12:10 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Quote:

Ferris said:

OTHER (please avoid this option)



:lol: Great poll.

What about Christology, Islamism and Shamanity?

If I had to be one I'd be Discordian, i.e. Other...


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Middleman]
    #8375973 - 05/08/08 12:42 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

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Ferris said:

OTHER (please avoid this option)



:lol: Great poll.

What about Christology, Islamism and Shamanity?

If I had to be one I'd be Discordian, i.e. Other...



It's hard to beleive that someone could defy all of those categories :crying:

I'd call Christology a theology and not a religion, Islamism is more of a political ideology, and I'm not exactly sure what Shamanity is, someone who is a shaman perhaps (ie humanity)?

Now as for Discordianism, I have to say I would have classified that under "NEOPAGANISM - other neopaganism" for their loose reconstruction of Greek mythology through the worship of the god of discord, Eris; although I'm not sure if this would somehow offend its followers. It's close to a legit "OTHER" though.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8375990 - 05/08/08 12:47 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Sorry, I guess you're right.

But what about Western Hermeticism, Sufism, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Masonry, OTO, Chaos Magick, etc.?

I really like Gnosticism. I once went to the hospital and said "Gnostic" when the lady asked my religion.

She smirked and put "Agnostic" on my wristband. Why is Gnostic not even an option when Agnostic is so popular?


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Middleman]
    #8376017 - 05/08/08 12:58 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Western Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, OTO and Chaos Magick would seem to fall under Neopaganism - other, since its a blanket term that also includes everything occult and new age as well.

Sufism is probably Islam - other, although its a stretch.

Theosophy could be Hinduism - other, also a stretch.

I would hesitate to call Masonry a religion at all.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8376039 - 05/08/08 01:07 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

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Western Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, OTO and Chaos Magick would seem to fall under Neopaganism - other, since its a blanket term that also includes everything occult and new age as well.



I totally disagree with that, there's a huge difference between Occultism, Paganism, and New Age foo-foo.

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Sufism is probably Islam - other, although its a stretch.



Oh, yeah you're right.

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Theosophy could be Hinduism - other, also a stretch.



All religions contain elements of the previous ones, all it takes are new additions to create a new mythology.

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I would hesitate to call Masonry a religion at all.



It's more religious than most religions, it's blatant Astrotheology, ancient Egyptian style.

I don't mean to nitpick, there's even an Digambar option so I thought you were trying to list as many reality tunnels as possible.

Thanks for reminding me that some religions are actually quite awesome:

The modern Jainism is generally divided into two traditions, Digambar and Svetambar. Generally Digambar monks wear no clothes (dig ambar = sky clad), Svetambar (swet ambar = white clad) monks usually wear white clothes.

Until the leadership of Acharya Bhadrabahu, there was no significant division. After that some divisions gradually arose. Senior Digambar monks wear no clothes, following the practice of Lord Mahavira. They do not consider themselves to be nude -- they are wearing the environment or stated differently the quintessential, akasha or space. Digambaras believe that this practice represents a refusal to give in to the body's demands for comfort and private property -- only Digambara ascetics are required to forsake clothing. Digambara ascetics have only two possessions: a peacock feather broom and a water gourd.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Middleman]
    #8376140 - 05/08/08 01:38 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

If I lived in a part of the world where it was socially acceptable, I'd be tempted to join the Dismabar sect of Jainism (for their beleifs towards animals mostly, not the whole nude thing, although I wouldn't mind that either).

I made an initial move to start including more religions along that line of thought, but I realized I'd be adding at least a hundred more, along that vein alone.

Everyone on this list has at least 100,000 followers, so I did get the semi-major ones down.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8376155 - 05/08/08 01:42 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

There are 100,000 Digambaras?


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Middleman]
    #8376182 - 05/08/08 01:47 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

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There are 100,000 Digambaras?



I saw a stat saying 5% of Jainists were Digambaras and wiki says there are 10-12 million Jainists, so that's a good 500-600k.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Ferris]
    #8376301 - 05/08/08 02:23 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Wow there are so many, these are just the new ones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Middleman]
    #8376616 - 05/08/08 06:58 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

Now that is a poll with some choices.

Good job! :thumbup:


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: mushbaby]
    #8377181 - 05/08/08 11:47 AM (6 months, 12 days ago)

I said Shamanism because I am trying to formulate my own religious experiences and spirituality from my own experiences with entheogens, so my own breed of shamanism!


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Cannashroom]
    #8377224 - 05/08/08 12:00 PM (6 months, 12 days ago)

I'm an 'adrugist'. How come that isn't on the list? It should be, because I just made it up which makes it just as valid as any of the other options.


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: adrug]
    #8377994 - 05/08/08 03:13 PM (6 months, 11 days ago)

http://www.omnism.com/om/home.htm

I think alot of Shoomerites would fit under this "religion."


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Re: The Great, Almighty Shroomery Religion Poll - Revised [Re: Quarryman]
    #8378555 - 05/08/08 05:36 PM (6 months, 11 days ago)

I don't see Jedi on the list.... it's a real religion :rolleyes:


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