I'll do quizzes.

[judecorp]

To be like all of you lovelies.

Your GQ (geek quotient) is.... GQ 83.7 (this puts you in the 71.61 percentile.)
Your GQ is below average - you must be cool as a cucumber!

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Your Political Philosophy:
According to your answers, your political philosophy is left-liberal.

Left-Liberal
Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.

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The Philosopher Test:

Nietzsche...(score = 100)
Spinoza...(score = 82)
Stoics...(score = 77)
Aristotle...(score = 74)
Aquinas...(score = 71)
Jean Paul Sartre...(score = 65)
Etc.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
*We have free will
*There is no God
*Social conformity should not hold us back
*The interests of others should not restrain us
*We should be passionate beings
*Masculinity, strength and passion are the highest qualities in a person
*Conventional morality is a crutch to man

(Must be the strength thing. I very much believe in Deity. Weirdness.)

Comments

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

My horrible at-work connection is screwing up my answers on the geek test. But I probably score way too high for my liking.

The Political Philosophy test is a bit too simple (and biased towards libertarianism). It defined me a centrist, whereas I consider myself more a moderate-to-left liberal. Try the one at VoteMatch. Can't remember the URL off hand.

My highest scores (both 100) on the Philosopher side were Aquinas and Spinoza. Wow. This from a former existentialist.

Aquinas (1225 or '27-1274)

* All life has a purpose
* Meeting this purpose allows one to be happy.
* Happiness is to be found in the love of God.
* God's grace providing entrance into heaven creates the highest form of human happiness.
* Short of heaven, a person can achieve a more limited form of happiness through a life of virtue and friendship.

* Morality is not determined by the arbitrary will of God.
* Morality is derived from human nature and the activities that are objectively suited to it
* The difference between right and wrong can be appreciated through the use of reason and reflection.

I like these three a lot.

* Religious reflection may supplement the use of reason and reflection to determine right from wrong.
* Societies must enact laws to ensure the correct application of moral reasoning.
* Human nature is good because God made it good.

I'm not sure how they wound up with Spinoza, though, because I'm definitely not a determinist. They must seem to equate a belief in a deity as being determinist (as opposed to humanist). That's not necessarily true - the presence of a deity doesn't deny us free will, if the deity had so wished it.

Interesting, though.

Wow.

[laurajones.livejournal.com]

So I am so not a geek, and here I thought I was! Look at this:

43.2 (this puts you in the 30.03 percentile.)

Your GQ is far below average - you should be congratulated on your coolness!

Fuck yeah, I'm COOL!!

[dietbubba.livejournal.com]

Cynics = 100
Spinoza = 98
Nietzsche = 94
Epicureans = 91
Aquinas = 87

How very interesting...

Cynicism

All the fruits of civilization are worthless
Salvation is found in a rejection of society and a return to simple ascetic living
Virtue consists in finding salvation in oneself

You know my answers may have given that as my philosophy, but I don't agree with that one bit.

I dunno, Peej

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You seem pretty cynical to me.

Re: I dunno, Peej

[dietbubba.livejournal.com]

Cynical I am, but I don't agree with their "definitions" of cynical. I don't believe that all the fruits of civilization are worthless. And I really don't believe that salvation is found by rejecting society.

So all in all I guess it is safe to say, I don't know what I am.

Re: I dunno, Peej

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Okay, that makes sense, then. I thought you were saying you weren't cynical, and I was like, "Ummmm..." :)