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What is Your World View?

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on May. 14, 2005

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I so rarely do online quizzes, but this one caught my eye.  It has questions like: “Morals are socially constructed” and “Man is condemned to be free.” Agree or disagree? How much?

So I took it, and it told me I was an existentialist.  Which is fairly true, though there’s strong Taoist tendencies in me.  Perhaps I swayed a bit because I just finished reading Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.”

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Man is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist

81%

Cultural Creative

75%

Postmodernist

75%

Materialist

75%

Idealist

63%

Fundamentalist

56%

Romanticist

56%

Modernist

50%

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Thanks, Joey, for the pointer.



 
 

 

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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

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“I play with variables constantly.”

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“Only the person who has learned Continual Love coming from a heart of Gratitude/Worship can effectively deal with the problem of loneliness.”

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