Today's Meme: My D&D Alignment

[thatcrazycajun]

Gacked from a friend of a friend I don't even know yet...

Your Score: Neutral-Good
78% Good, 50% Chaotic

Plane of Existence: Elysium, "Blessed Fields".
Description: The plane of peace.
Notable Inhabitants: Guardinals (noble, immortal humanoids with bestial features).

Examples of Real and Fictional Neutral-Good Persons (Ethically Neutral, Morally Good)
Cloud Strife (FFVII)
Boogenhagen (FFVII)
Mother Theresa
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sidhartha Gautama (the Buddha)
Gandalf the Grey
Bilbo & Frodo Baggins
Samwise Gamgee
Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D.
The Dalai Lama
Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi
Luke Skywalker
Harry Potter
Hermione Granger
Prof. Albus Dumbledore

Often goes along with the laws and desires of the group as being the easiest course of action, but ethical considerations clearly have top priority. May pursue quite abstract goals. Often aloof and difficult to understand.

• Will keep their word to others of good alignment
• Would not attack an unarmed foe
• Will not use poison
• Will help those in need
• May work with others
• Indifferent to higher authority
• Indifferent to organizations
  

Neutral Good "Pure Good": "Benefactor"
A neutral good [person] will obey the law, or break it when he or she sees it will serve a greater good. He or she is not bound strongly to a social system or order. His or her need to help others and reduce their suffering may take precedence over all else. Neutral good [people] do good for goodness' sake, not because they are directed to by law or by whim. This alignment desires good without any bias for or against order.

Other Alignments and Tendencies (Tendencies = what you would more often sway towards; esp. for Neutrals):

0-39% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Evil 0-39% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Evil 0-39% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Evil 40-60% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Neutral

40-60% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: True Neutral 40-60% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Neutral 61-100% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Good 61-100% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Good

From: The Alignment Test written by xan81 on OkCupid

Comments

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

Yeah. she'd have flouted the law to do a greater good. No question.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Gandalf? The Dalai Lama? Mother T.? "Indifferent to higher authority"? They all respect an Authority that is, to them, higher than any earthly laws, and higher than themselves. For G. & M.T. it's about the same one (Tolkien was a Roman Catholic; Eru [God] is "the character who is never mentioned and never absent". For the D.L. there is the Dharma (Sanskrit: धर्म) or Dhamma (Pāli: धम्म):

For many Buddhists, the Dhamma most often means the body of teachings expounded by the Buddha. The word is also used in Buddhist phenomenology as a term roughly equivalent to phenomenon, a basic unit of existence and/or experience.[4]

In scripture translations dharma is often best left untranslated, as it has acquired a lively life of its own in English that is more expressive than any simplistic translation. Common translations and glosses include "right way of living," Divine Law, Path of Righteousness, order, faith, "natural harmony," rule, fundamental teachings, and duty. Dharma may be used to refer to rules of the operation of the mind or universe in a metaphysical system, or to rules of comportment in an ethical system. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma)

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What is called Buddhism in the west has been referred to in India (the teachings' place of origin) and the east generally for many centuries as buddha-dharma. This term has no sectarian connotations but simply means "Path of Awakening" and thus conforms to a universal understanding of dharma.

• "Dharma" usually refers inclusively not just to the sayings of the Buddha but to the later traditions of interpretation and addition that the various schools of Buddhism have developed to help explain and expand upon the Buddha's teachings. The 84,000 different teachings (the Kangyur/bka.'gyur) that the Buddha gave to various types of people based on their needs. The teachings are expedient means of raising doubt in the hearer's own cherished beliefs and view of life; when doubt has opened the door to the truth, the teaching can be put aside.
• Alternately, "dharma" may be seen as an ultimate and transcendent truth which is utterly beyond worldly things, somewhat like the Christian logos, seeing the dharma as referring to the "truth" or ultimate reality or "the way things are".

The Dharma is one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism of which practitioners of Buddhism seek refuge in (what one relies on for his/her lasting happiness). The three jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha (mind's perfection of enlightenment), the Dharma (teachings and methods), and the Sangha (awakened beings who provide guidance and support). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_(Buddhism))

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thanks for the quick lesson. That's a very concise summary and really helpful to the seeker.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Very glad to have helped, especially in a way I didn't expect. I was just being my nitpicky self. :-)