Discussion Thread II: Bots? What bots?

[Twat]

http://www.geocities.com/moonstone_jp/clichemeter.html
http://www.geocities.com/moonstone_jp/c ... llain.html

I found these to be quite amusing. I keep punching in any of my character concepts I could recall from any point of time, just to see their score. Usually I get negatives but when I entered Evan, the God of the Internet, the villian score thingy was at like 27 until I clarified he actually crushes the other characters as opposed to being defeated, then I ended up with 6. xD

[Vapour Trail]

[Riseatrance]

[Vapour Trail]

[Kinokokao]

[Kimiko]

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Neo-Pagan (95%)
3. Liberal Quakers (84%)
4. Secular Humanism (81%)
5. New Age (76%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (76%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (69%)
9. Nontheist (67%)
10. Reform Judaism (53%)
11. Taoism (50%)
12. New Thought (49%)
13. Jainism (40%)
14. Orthodox Quaker (37%)
15. Hinduism (32%)
16. Scientology (31%)
17. Baha'i Faith (28%)
18. Sikhism (28%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (24%)
20. Seventh Day Adventist (19%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (17%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (14%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (7%)
25. Islam (7%)
26. Jehovah's Witness (7%)
27. Roman Catholic (7%)

Shinto is missing from the lists?
UU seems to be a fits-everyone default.
I'm surprised Tao scored only 50%, as that fits me pretty well.

[Twat]

1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (97%)
3. Liberal Quakers (93%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (92%)
5. Jainism (92%)
6. Neo-Pagan (92%)
7. New Age (88%)
8. Hinduism (80%)
9. Scientology (80%)
10. New Thought (77%)
11. Taoism (77%)
12. Reform Judaism (75%)
13. Sikhism (75%)
14. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
15. Secular Humanism (65%)
16. Baha'i Faith (64%)
17. Orthodox Quaker (60%)
18. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (52%)
19. Orthodox Judaism (48%)
20. Islam (41%)
21. Nontheist (35%)
22. Seventh Day Adventist (25%)
23. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (24%)
24. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (19%)
25. Jehovah's Witness (19%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (17%)
27. Roman Catholic (17%)

For someone who is a borderline taoist, I'm surprised it isn't higher.

[Seniwac]

[Twat]

[Kimiko]

It's actually called 'seaweed paper'? Not 'nori'?

[Twat]

Nori is the Japanese name for edible seaweed. I don't use exclusive Japanese words unless I'm talking to people who are Japanese. :3 That and I don't like having to expect people on an English-speaking forum to know real specific words. To a certain extent of course. ^-^ We don't call spring rolls "harumaki". :3

[Kimiko]

Ah okay. I didn't know it was called seaweed paper as well. I've only known it as nori.

Then again, half the forum already uses Japanese sometimes, and written in kana/kanji too.

[Twat]

I feel all alone with my limited interest in anything Japan. ;-; My interests in world cultures is spread very far and wide. Japan has very limited appeal to me when I look at some of the other cultures. Where as I'll say "Japan is a cramped capitalist country which treats those who are different with deep disrespect", someone else can say "Korea is an oversizes bazaar where people just throw their garbage on the ground and spend too much time obsessing over useless crap". Which is fine. We all have our opinions. :D Though I know people in real life who think Japan is the coolest thing ever because games and anime come from there. I don't want to tell them the bad or else it crushes their hearts. :[

One example is my friend Sam, who visited Japan with a friend. This wasn't his first time. He speaks Japanese perfectly fine and well, in addition to knowing enough about tradition and respect. Still. He gets nothing but stares and disrespect. I know, being a tall white American, he'll get stared at. That's fine. But walking through public is like Moses parting the seas. They all move away like he and his brother (who are very intune with hygene) carry some disease and their eyes can be felt for quite a bit. There are many restaurants and other locations that won't serve him. Infact, he'd pay to go to a resort or something and get prodded out for being a white American. When he talked, people would treat him like an alien because he doesn't have a Japanese accent. There's just so much about his experiences and others that bother me.

Not like I'm anti-Japanese. I have friends from overseas. Some of them love it, some of them want to get out. Heck, I even have had contact with "Blackfacers" (I hate that term). I know people "stare" in all parts of the world, but with the exception of countries with wear like hijab or something, I haven't heard such difference elsewhere. :[

[Kinokokao]

[Kimiko]