Straightening out my life, shaping it into a symbol for everything and letting it go. Building and trying to remember that it's not mine.
You scored as Buddhism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Buddhism. Do more research on Buddhism and possibly consider becoming Buddhist, if you are not already.In Buddhism, there are Four Noble Truths: (1) Life is suffering. (2) All suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality and the craving, attachment, and grasping that result from such ignorance. (3) Suffering can be ended by overcoming ignorance and attachment. (4) The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right-mindedness, and right contemplation. These eight are usually divided into three categories that base the Buddhist faith: morality, wisdom, and samadhi, or concentration. In Buddhism, there is no hierarchy, nor caste system; the Buddha taught that one's spiritual worth is not based on birth.
Buddhism
75%
Hinduism
71%
Islam
63%
agnosticism
63%
Christianity
50%
Judaism
50%
Paganism
42%
atheism
42%
Satanism
17%
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
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I'd like to meet:
The Holy--here & beyond, muses, thinkers, creators
Music:
Recitations of the Sutra. The best poetry. Brazilian Portugese. Swedish and Norwegian. Southern belle lilts. The voices of those that I love, especially my daughter, Ronja. Most Sergio Mendes (especially Brazil '66), The Average White Band (is that Scottish humility?), Middle-eastern (as opposed to Country & Western), The Cocteau Twins, Crowded House, Davids Bowie, Matthews or Sylvian, anything with Francesco Mora, Nerada Michael Walden, Lenny White, Stewart Copeland or Steves Gadd, Ferrone or Jordan on drums, The Dubphonics (represent!), Shipwreck Union, ASS (yes, shameless self-promotion), Elliot Smith, Elton John (the classics), anything with Mick Karn or Jamie Jamerson playing bass, Jimi Hendrix, 'Trane, Kate Bush, Arvo Prt, Miles, Phil Collins--but only when he's REALLY playing drums, Portishead, Prefab Sprout (up to either "From Langley Park to Memphis" or "Jordan: The Comeback"), Prince, Radiohead, Simple Minds (up to "Street Fighting Years"), Soundgarden, Bowie, Tori Amos ("Songs from the Choirgirl Hotel" and "Little Earthquakes"), XTC (before they lost Dave Gregory on guitar), anything with Walter Becker or Donald Fagen--of course including Steely Dan, Led Zepplin, the new John Mayer Trio, wrenching blues guitar (from the three Kings to the aforementioned Mr. Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the aforementioned Mayer), PA, Living Color or anything else with Vernon Reid on guitar, anything with Chris Clermont on guitar (including our old band practice tapes)--and any one else that I'm either compelled to cop from, can't pry out of my discman or deeply moves me.
Movies:
Nearly anything directed by Quentin Tarantino (especially "Pulp Fiction"), Pedro Almodovar, Hitchcock (especially "Vertigo" and "Rear Window"), Bergman, Eastwood, Scorsese, Ridley Scott (especially "Alien" and "Hannibal" , Peter Greenaway (especially "The cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "The Pillow Book", Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Atom Egoyan, John Woo (especially the Hong Kong films with Chow Yun Fat), Curtis Hanson ("Hollywood Confidential" and "The Wonder Boys"), Orson Welles (especially "Citizen Kane," of course), the Coen Brothers or Stanley Kubrick (especially "Eyes Wide Shut"), Spike Lee (especially "X")--or any other moving cinematic artist I forgot to mention. You can browse an archive of my movie reviews, editorials and stories by goggling James Keith La Croix at http://www.metrotimes.com/cinema.asp.
Television:
A friend gave me a TV not to long ago. I hadn't had one for awhile. It stays off most of the time only coming on for "American Idol," "House" and "Saturday Night Live"...oh, and police procedurals like "Law & Order," "C.S.I.," "Without A Trace"...
Books:
I guess I'll do it by category. Poets: James Hart lll, Robert Fanning, Vivee Francis, Ted Pearson, Neruda (especially "100 Love Sonnets"), Baudelaire (especially "Fleur du Mal"), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Basho, Mick Vranich to name a few. Dramatists: the Greek tragedians. Novelists: Somerset Maugham, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Nabokov's "Lolita," J.D. Salinger, Anita Shreve, Yukio Mishima. Criticism: Northrup Frye, George Bataille's "Erotism," Elias Canetti's "Crowds and Power," Tzvetan Todorov's "The Conquest of America," Julia Kristeva's "Powers of Horror," again to name a few. Film criticism: Les Brill. Psychology: Freud, Jung, Lacan, John Bradhsaw.The Bible, The Lotus Sutra, "Be Here Now" and lately, "The Secret." There's a lot more...
Heroes:
Buddhas and boddhisattvas, Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandi, the current Dalai Lama, Malcolm X off the top of my head. And I can't forget my family and friends especially--but not limited to--my parents, my grandparents Jesse James Dillard, Sr. and Hilda La Croix, my aunts Althea Redd and Agnes Dillard, my cousin Gail and my friends the Chrises Johnson and Clermont, Sandra Hodge, Danette...co-workers like James Dedekere, Mr. Merriweather, Kenwood Dennard...and all those who have lived an example of what it is to be truly human--and more. My apologies to those I failed to mention...
