Help With A Religion Assignmnet - A Survey

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Hey everyone,
I have a mini-assignment for my Studies of Religion course to complete this weekend. We've basically been given a survey to get people to fill out, then have to write up a report on the findings.
Note: You don't have to be religious to answer this survey, I'd actually rather a more broad response, from religious and non-religious.
Anyway, these are the set questions.... If you're answering just copy and paste the questions and place your answer underneath....
Thanks so much guys - I really appreciate your help,
Collette

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1. To which age group do you belong?
(13-15) (16-18) (19-25) (26-35) (36-50) (50+)

2. Please indicate your sex:

3. Please indicate your nationality:

4. Please indicate your occupation:

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single, Long-Term Relationship or Divorced/Seperated

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money -
Family -
Friends -
Work -
Material Possessions -
Religion -
Health -
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests -
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

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ON EDIT: The old-fashioned religion teacher didn't add a category for long-term relationships

[Troy Dann]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(16-18)

2. Please indicate your sex:
yes please... HAHAHAHAHA.... male.

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Vietnamese background, born in Australia.

4. Please indicate your occupation:
Student, Year 12

5. What is your marital status: Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money -
Family - 3
Friends - 1
Work -
Material Possessions -
Religion -
Health - 4
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests - 2
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
Guitar, Music.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - Buddhism

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?
It gives me some of my morals. But, like it's sorta complicated.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I get cremated and that's it.

[Delirium]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(16-18)

2. Please indicate your sex: Male

3. Please indicate your nationality: Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation: Uni Student

5. What is your marital status: Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life.
Sport - 7
Money - 8
Family - 4
Friends - 3
Work - 10
Material Possessions - 9
Religion - 1
Health - 5
Travel - 6
Hobbies/Interests - 2
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.

My spirituality, and also maybe my intellectual fascinations.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes/No

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

It does give me meaning because my personality and attitude towards others is the intangible enbodiment of my collective beliefs, while striving to adopt reshape and disregard parts of my philosophy.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

the afterlife is a mystery, i dont think God would have it any other way. But i certainly do know there is an After to life.

[kim-b]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(19-25)

2. Please indicate your sex: Male

3. Please indicate your nationality: Vietnamese / Australian (born in Aust, Vietnamese blood)

4. Please indicate your occupation: Full Time Student

5. What is your marital status: Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport - 5
Money - 9
Family - 2
Friends - 1
Work - 8
Material Possessions - 4
Religion - 10
Health - 7
Travel - 6
Hobbies/Interests - 3
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.

- My head I guess, loss of control.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? No

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

- I think the part of myself that makes me, me flies out of my body when I die, leaving the body to be just a piece of matter. I don't know what happens to the Kim that flies out of the body, but I don't think it'll go to heaven or hell and I don't think there's anything for it after death.

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1. To which age group do you belong?
(13-15) (16-18) (19-25) (26-35) (36-50) (50+)
26-35

2. Please indicate your sex:
F

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation:
engineer

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single or Divorced/Seperated
single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money -
Family -1
Friends -2
Work -
Material Possessions -
Religion -
Health -4
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests -
Other (please state) -Freedom 3

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
see 1,2,3,4 above

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No
no

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?


9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

you stop being, but you dont cease to exist

[adelgirly]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(19-25)

2. Please indicate your sex:
Female

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation:
Retail assistant

5. What is your marital status:
Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -10
Money -8
Family -2
Friends -1
Work -7
Material Possessions -6
Religion -9
Health -3
Travel -4
Hobbies/Interests -5
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
My health, the people close to me and my dog


8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - Catholicism (I have been christened and attended a Catholic high school).

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Not really, I have never been a "practising" Catholic, and have never really been affected by that religion so don't find that it adds much meaning to my life.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I really do not know what I believe. I would like to think there is some kind of after life but I couldn't extend any further on this at the moment.

[somethingforkaty]

1. To which age group do you belong?
19-25

2. Please indicate your sex:
Female

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation:
Graphic Designer

5. What is your marital status:
Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Family - 1
Friends - 2
Other (please state) - Integrity - 3
Religion - 4
Hobbies/Interests - 5
Travel - 6
Work - 7
Health - 8
Sport - 9
Material Possessions - 10
Money - 11

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live:
Family, Friends, Health, Integrity

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion?
Yes, Buddhism

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?
Yes it does. I like to spend time reading and pondering about more meaningful things in life rather than living consumed purely by capitalist dreams and desires. For me it's just like a group of people who think the same way I do. I don't conform to the beliefs because it's the rules of the religion, it's what I believe already, so it's more about hanging out with like minded people for me.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I believe in reincarnation, and also that some people can remain in some form of limbo. In other words some form of life after death. I don't believe that when we die that's it, the soul lives on ... just somewhere else.

[singingcirclesaway]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(13-15) (16-18) (19-25) (26-35) (36-50) (50+)
19-25

2. Please indicate your sex:
female

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Aussie

4. Please indicate your occupation:
student

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single or Divorced/Seperated
I thought that said desperate. I'd pick that if that were an option, otherwise single. Ha.

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport - 8
Money - 7
Family - 2
Friends - 1
Work - 6
Material Possessions - 5
Religion - 10
Health - 3
Travel - 9
Hobbies/Interests - 4
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
Family, friends, health (mental and physcial), shelter

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No
no

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I'm not sure what I believe, but I hope that there is something else, that that isn't just it. I think that maybe there is, and some part of us carries on, somehow, somewhere, just in a different form.

[loux2]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(13-15) (16-18) (19-25) (26-35) (36-50) (50+)
19-25

2. Please indicate your sex:
female

3. Please indicate your nationality:
Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation:
call center, customer service.

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single or Divorced/Seperated
well single under those choices, but i'm in a long term relationship (6yrs)

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport - 9
Money - 8
Family - 2
Friends - 1
Work - 6
Material Possessions - 7
Religion - 10
Health - 3
Travel - 5
Hobbies/Interests - 4
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
home, friends and family, health

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No
no

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I think you just cease to exist. There's nothing, just black nothingness. I can't fathom anything else, just doesn't make sense in my head.

[tilted]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(19-25)

2. Please indicate your sex: Female

3. Please indicate your nationality: Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation: uni student/part-time transcriber

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single or Divorced/Seperated
Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money -
Family - 2
Friends - 3
Work -
Material Possessions -
Religion -
Health -
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests - 4
Other (please state) - God 1

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
Relationship with God, relationships with people close to me and music.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No
I'm a Christian, i could argue im not 'affiliated with a religion', but for the purposes of this survey i'll be nice collette hehe

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?
I dunno, it's not really a question of help or meaning, God is the centre of my life because I believe he created it and sustains it, and so by default gives my life meaning and helps me.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
I believe that there is the chance to live in perfect relationship with God without all the crappy stuff that goes on now.

[Seasick]

1. To which age group do you belong? 16-18

2. Please indicate your sex: Male

3. Please indicate your nationality: Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation: Student

5. What is your marital status: Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money - 4
Family -
Friends - 2
Work -
Material Possessions - 3
Religion -
Health -
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests - 1
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.

Friends

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? No

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

Undecided

[loux2]

hey collette, do you want me to get my parents to do it? so you get some people that are out of our age groups on here (mostly below 30ish)?

[cheer up emo kid]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(13-15) (16-18) (19-25) (26-35) (36-50) (50+)

16-18

2. Please indicate your sex: female

3. Please indicate your nationality: australian

4. Please indicate your occupation: college student (year 22)

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single, Long-Term Relationship or Divorced/Seperated: single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money - 6
Family - 3
Friends - 1
Work -
Material Possessions - 4
Religion -
Health -
Travel - 5
Hobbies/Interests - 2
Other (please state) -

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.
puppy, independance

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion? Yes - No
no

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?
burnt to ash or decompose in the ground. i dont believe there is any exsistance after death.

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loux2 said:

hey collette, do you want me to get my parents to do it? so you get some people that are out of our age groups on here (mostly below 30ish)?

Yeah that'd be great Lou! Only if it's not too much trouble though

[Tiberius]

1. To which age group do you belong?
(19-25)

2. Please indicate your sex: Male

3. Please indicate your nationality: Australian

4. Please indicate your occupation: Government employee

5. What is your marital status: Married, Single or Divorced/Separated
Single

6. Rank in order of preference from the following list, those things which give the most meaning to your life. (Please rank from 1 to 3 at least)
Sport -
Money -
Family - 2
Friends - 3
Work -
Material Possessions -
Religion -
Health - 4
Travel -
Hobbies/Interests - 4
Other (please state) - God 1

7. Please indicate the things in your life that if you lost, would make your life difficult to live.

Relationship with God, relationships with those I love, my health (mental and physical), and the freedoms and benefits that we have in Australia.

8. Are you affiliated with a particular religion?

I'm a Christian.

If yes, does religion help you in your life or give your life meaning? Why/why not?

God helps me and gives my life meaning. Without God, life and existence is meaningless. The paradox of the atheist is that to be an atheist they must believe that there is no God, no higher purpose to life, and that life is simply a random event that means nothing. Yet the paradox is that while believing this, they must also attempt to create meaning in their lives through their relationships to friends and family, their work, their hobbies, etc. And for what, if it all means nothing? To me it’s illogical for the universe to exist and for us to be endowed with sentience and the ability to love if the ultimate fate of everything is death and nothingness. I believe that I am more than the sum of my parts and am not merely some cosmic dust that implausibly came together with such order and precision to form me the human being. I believe that there is design and order everywhere we look, none of which is possible without there being a reason behind it, and that my life is not random meaningless but rather it has a purpose. And that gives me hope.

9. What do you believe happens to you when you die?

I’ll be with God. Heaven you’d call it I guess. And I’ll be with other believers in this place. I don’t know the specifics of it, but imagine all the bad and evil and annoying things on Earth now, and none of that will be in this place.

etc. said:

Yeah that'd be great Lou! Only if it's not too much trouble though

You want me to ask mine too Collette? I'm sure they wouldn't mind.