Quizzes - lowering the tone
Bored with being postmodern/emergent and Moltmann just like everyone else (except Tony)? Why not discover your inner Disney character....? For some reason I can't make the clever cut and paste thing work but I can say that as a result of not [admitting to] being evil, being untidy (who says Cinderella was?) and liking sleep I am mainly Cinderella, with Sleeping Beauty a close second... very much the same ratios in fact as I scored for pomo/emergent and evangelical holiness/Wesleyan (the latter would be a relief to my church, reassuring them that I won't blow the whole budget on tea lights, water features and shredders... just as well they don't know about the really good coloured tl holders I bought at IKEA yesterday....).
Well, I always wanted to be different (isn't there an enneagram type about that?). I did the favourite theologian one too and came out as Schleiermacher, who I really didn't like as a theolog student. How times change! But which Disney character might I be like? And do I REALLY want to know? Beauty? The Beast? Pinocchio? Yes, that would be the one for a storyteller.
Posted by: tony | June 11, 2005 at 09:11 PM
Another Cinders here...which is confusing, as it is another soubriquet for my lovely daughter, Lucinda...However, since I am 94% she, with Sleeping Beauty a good 20% behind, I guess I must accept my lot and return to the ironing pile!
Posted by: Kathryn | June 11, 2005 at 11:00 PM
Hmmm. Please Tony do the quiz so we can find out if it's gender specific.... Glad to see the tone so satisfactorily lowered this Saturday night. Why have we nothing better to do.....?
Posted by: Mary | June 11, 2005 at 11:16 PM
I've done the quiz, but very much suspect it's one of those things that is mood-affected, so I would come out different this morning from yesterday evening. But come on, Mary and Kathryn: from what you already know of me, what do you think my inner Disney character would be?
Posted by: tony | June 12, 2005 at 03:41 PM
Question of the week - how come nobody comments on 'important' stuff, but we all join in with THIS?? Yours, Sleeping Beauty (well, I do like to hang out with short people............)
Posted by: Stella | June 12, 2005 at 08:36 PM
ummmmmmmmmm.....I mean Snow White ....Sleeping beauty a good second; aren't we all good at sleeping given half a chance?
Posted by: Stella | June 12, 2005 at 08:40 PM
I think Kathryn should go first on Tony's challenge. I'm still worried about the gender based issue, and I note that all his suggestions were male. Come on Tony: you can be Cinderella like us (except Stella, who is clearly confused and as a teacher and mother HAS to like small people! She also has the gift of song -who does that score as?)
Posted by: Mary | June 12, 2005 at 09:39 PM
How come nobody comments on serious stuff, but we all join in with this?? My theory is that 'This' - whatever the 'non-serious' stuff is - is what shows our real selves, and all our serious opinions about theology etc. are just so many masks to conceal our true natures.
At least, this is my excuse for the generally low-brow character of anything in my blog.
Posted by: tony | June 12, 2005 at 10:15 PM
OK Tony....a wild guess for a Monday morning (I had to do the quiz again to remind myself of what the options are..but I'm still Cinderella)...how about Peter Pan with a touch of Goofy (though the latter may well be influenced by my dog dominated morning...one of ours escaped, ran wild for a couple of hours and came home with his white bits black and vice versa...so I've bypassed a productive morning at the desk..)
As to the other question...I'd say the reverse...that I tend to be a bit nervous of exposing some of my theology, in case it's wildly off beam, as it does matter rather...whereas anyone looking at the state of my house would deduce that I was a Cinderella who'd gone off to the ball and left all her tasks undone!
Posted by: Kathryn | June 13, 2005 at 12:34 PM
Ah, Kathryn - either you have read well between the lines of my blog, or you've sneaked a preview of my latest entry where Alison gave me away.
(Makes me feel quite transparent...)
Posted by: tony | June 13, 2005 at 02:57 PM
I don't think my results have really helped solve the problems raised about gender specificity. (Or maybe they have?) I'm prepared to accept that all men are really Peter Pans (if they are not Beasts or Goofys etc.); or that I and most others are straightforwardly unresconstructed, not a New Man among us. But it doesn't answer the question of whether the stereotypes are present in us, the Disney Corporation, or the quiz designer. I bet that Carl Jung is spinning in his grave. How are the archetypes fallen!
We're still looking for male Cinderellas or female Peter Pans, then?
Posted by: tony | June 13, 2005 at 05:50 PM
Thanks for that one. It had to give me a tie breaker to decide that I was Goofy rather than Cinderella - same percentage on both.
As has been pointed out though I guess it depends what mood you're in when you do it
Posted by: Tractor Girl | June 13, 2005 at 06:11 PM
I was Goofy too, by miles. I'm not sure whether to be pleased or mortified!
Posted by: Jackie | June 13, 2005 at 06:38 PM