06-21-03 @ 10:47 am EDT

I resisted taking it the first few times I saw it, because religion, in particular organized religion, just sets me all on edge...and the last sentence of this sets me on edge as well...but the rest of it is spot on. This is very pathetic.

"Which book of the Bible are you?" - Results

YOU ARE LAMENTATIONS

Depression is your middle name. The glass isn't just half empty, it's cracked, too. You have been forsaken, ignored, and abused. Unfortunately, you're right. Yet there are many others who have suffered more and their outlooks are much brighter. You have friends who want to help you, but the fact of the matter is, you're not willing to do what it takes to get out of the mire. It's easier to wallow in self-pity than it is to stand up and walk erect. But that's just what you need to do...walk. It's time to listen to those who love you. They may never understand the depth of what you feel...but they know God. And they want you to experience Him, too.

http://quizilla.com/users/reflectedgrace/quizzes/Which%20book%20of%20the%20Bible%20are%20you%3F/

Hm, I tried to vote on it to tell them it was good, but it says somebody with my IP already voted. No they didn't, because nobody has my IP but me, and I've never taken THIS quiz before. :/

I find it sad that a jokey online quiz tells how I feel about life much better and more succinctly than I can. The thing is I read the entire Bible once (albeit a modern translation which I feel was very skewed--it included a real-life story about somebody's brother who had "turned gay," need I say more?), and I don't even remember Lamentations. They must have been boring!

I wanted to post in here earlier to try to explain some of my religious beliefs...but shied away from it. Not out of fear of intolerance or anything, but because it's too daunting. I wouldn't know where to begin and where to end without rambling all over in an ADD fashion and forgetting half of what I wanted to say, to boot. If anyone knows of a nice questionnaire or survey-type thingie you can fill out to summarize your religious and spiritual beliefs, a nice intelligent one that isn't biased toward any one religion, please point it out to me; and I don't mean an online quiz like the Religion Selector, either. I took that once and it determined that I should be a Reform Jew! Not that I disagree, but...well, who knows what the heck I am? I don't. :/