Perceptions of a fool

[smokingboot]

This was always going to be an interesting quiz for me to take. I thank thomryng for it.

You scored as Pelagianism. You are a Pelagian. You reject ideas about man's fallen human nature and believe that as a result we are able to fully obey God. You are the first Briton to contribute significantly to Christian thought, but you're still excommunicated in 417. </td> Pelagianism 100% Chalcedon compliant 83% Monophysitism 67% Nestorianism 58% Monarchianism 50% Apollanarian 42% Modalism 33% Socinianism 33% Albigensianism 25% Donatism 17% Adoptionist 8% Gnosticism 8% Arianism 8% Docetism 0% Are you a heretic? created with QuizFarm.com

Well, quite. All that horrific rubbish about matter being corrupt...Let me tell you about an experience I may have had, had I chosen to take a tab some years ago on Halloween; determined that I was the ultimate screw-up and downright bloody evil, I decided to rip down all my shields and go seeking the inherent rottenness locked in the core of my soul. 'Bad Trip of the Universe!' I roared, 'Here I come!' And I threw open all the windows on a stormy night, ready to face thehorrorthehorror. I frowned at the rust black clouds and tried to see the face of the evil one there, and all that came to my mind were pantomime pictures, comedic sad-faced goats with badly drawn horns. When I tried to see angels, they were there too, but more convincing, cos I 'felt' them better. And when I said, 'Now be clouds,' they were all just clouds. There was nothing to fear except the bats in my belfry, stories to be invented, fear created and designed for no other reason than to be entertaining, sometimes taken too seriously.

Swooning on the bed, I observed a beautiful universe, wind like music you can touch, and trees, and lights as the night marched down the road with all or none of the unseelie behind it. 'Matter is Innocent!' I yelled, just before I passed out, a naked idiot on the floor, 'The Universe is Innocent!'

And let me assure you, tab or no tab, so it is. Check it out for yourself if you don't believe me.


PS. I woke up with what the doctor later diagnosed as pneumonia. The universe may be innocent but in England on a late October night, it's also bloody freezing.

PPS. Aren't you glad I'm finally writing about something that isn't food?

Comments

(HeadDesk)

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Aren't you glad I'm finally writing about something that isn't food?

And yet you're still invoking images of yourself wearing nothing but sky.
Or in this case, a gibbering rictus of insanity, and some sky.

As for the universe being innocent ?
I might posit that the actual matter itself is merely a tool in the hands and minds of the many millions of us who dreamed up this reality as a place to put all our stuff.

if everybody's dumped their stuff here

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

it might explain why I can't find any of mine.

Re: if everybody's dumped their stuff here

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

By the sound of things, this might be some of yours.

Re: if everybody's dumped their stuff here

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

This is pretty. It probably can't be owned, any more than the moon can be stolen:-) Thank you for finding it.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I'd like to have done the quiz, but it presupposes that one is christian. Since I neither agreed nor disagreed with most of the statements, I'm not sure what my result would have been. Perhaps I should fill in the middle box in each case and see what happens.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I'm not a christian per se either...my result comes from creative adaptation of the questions. But I do think the doctrine of matter's inherent corruption is specifically horrid.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I filled in the middle answers, was offered a tie-breaker--fourteen questions from which I had to choose the least objectionable--and ended up as a Pelagian. So there you go. Nothing is corrupt; it's all just as it should be.