How intriguing! As a life long, heavily involved Quaker or member of the Religious Society of Friends, this thread has a beautiful assortment of strange, true, or moderately off the wall comments. I wish I had time to respond to each! Check many sources. No single one has all the "truth" if, in fact, there is any one truth amongst Friends. If one lives in the light of one's life, one chooses/finds/follows one's own inner guidance.

Saw a button back then: "Nixon's no Quaker. He's a faker." Philadelphia Yearly Meeting suggested to his home meeting that he was not a Quaker but that meeting in CA said he was. Each meeting has it's own personality; each Friend their own way of expressing who they are in the Quaker spectrum - from fundamentalist to non-theist.