YAQ: Alternative Subversion

[vakkotaur]

Via altivo:

You scored as White Lighter. You are a White Lighter! You seek the dawning of the New Age and the raising of the consciousness of mankind (which of course happens in 2012, and all in one day). You seek only to do good, and are determined to cut out that pesky dark side once and for all. You know your own role in the coming Earth Changes is important, and you must let all know so they know whom to turn to at that crucial moment! </td> Otherkin 65% White Lighter 65% Mystic 55% Aimless Eclectic 55% True Alternative 50% Magician 45% Discordian 40% Spiritualist 30% What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

And on the second take:

You scored as White Lighter. You are a White Lighter! You seek the dawning of the New Age and the raising of the consciousness of mankind (which of course happens in 2012, and all in one day). You seek only to do good, and are determined to cut out that pesky dark side once and for all. You know your own role in the coming Earth Changes is important, and you must let all know so they know whom to turn to at that crucial moment! </td> White Lighter 75% True Alternative 65% Otherkin 65% Mystic 60% Magician 50% Aimless Eclectic 45% Discordian 35% Spiritualist 20% What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

Okkay, the doing good and all is fine, but I don't think much of so-called New Age which seems to me to be only so much newage. Also, I've not encountered the term "White Lighter" before.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, this one puzzles me too. I've not heard the terminology, and I thought 2012 was just the breaking date for the old MacOS system (their equivalent of Y2K or something, now moot since they switched to the BSD clone.)

[rillaspins.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but I think it may be referring to the the tv program "Charmed". The "whitelighters" are the good guys that take care of the "good witches". The Demons tend to be in league with the "Warlocks" (who are apparently all evil even if they try to change.

2012 is the end of the Incan or Mayan calander--I don't remember which one. (just point and laugh at me, ok?) So that is also used as the date that is the "end of the world".

Just my crazy theories.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The Sheldon (http://www.comics.com/comics/sheldon/archive/sheldon-20060130.html) comic strip for January 30, 2006 has as good an explanation as any. Note: The comic strip is only available on the web for 30 days or so.

Looking around the web, this entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelighter) in Wikipedia seems to cover the Charmed definition and this page (http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/bldefwhitelight.htm) has a Wicca-related definition. As usual, there seems to be three definitions. One is the TV definition to go with the show, one is a positive self-description, and one is a negative description. I am assuming that the person who made the quiz used the positive definition as the result says "do only good" rather than "see only good" which is rather different.

What puzzles me though is if that is supposed to be the hilt of something showing above her cleavage in that picture, just where is the blade?