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[rebelzero]

Your Score: Happy Absurdist

You are 97% absurd!

Comments

[pwinkler]

Does being highly absurd make you happy, or is there another axis upon which that it judged?

[rebelzero]

per the person who wrote the test, I believe this is answered in the last question.

really, by "happy absurd" the author means someone who can be happy while still absurd.

I don't personally think that being absurd "makes one happy," so much as allows for someone to consciously determine the factors/events/etc in their lives they do get happiness from.

On the other hand, and this is from personal experience, I can be conscious of the factors in some absolutely dreadful experiences, recognize the absurdity in the path of events, and smile because of the connection.

My goal is really to be able to die a happy death, as in Camus' book. At this point in my life, I think I can. There's so many more experiences I want from life that I don't yet have or experienced, that will only enhance the absurd "happiness" possible from life. But all things considered, I think I could die a happy death.

[pwinkler]

Well, regardless, I hope that's still a while off. :)

[rebelzero]

I thank you for not wanting me dead

[skurtchasor]

Yeah, as if any of us are going to be surprised by that result. I got 57%, btw.

[rebelzero]

part of being absurd is agreeing to be illogical.
should i be surprised the math professor isn't more absurd?

I will point out that I'm not 100% absurd though. Alas...

[aitai]

I was 80% absurd...had the same description as yours, though.

[radhardened]

I object to the question:
Assuming (regardless of your personal beliefs) that God exists, could we ever understand His purpose?

• Yes, through prayer and devotion.
  
• Of course not - we're only human. And why should we have faith in something we'll never understand?
  
• We can only trust that all will be revealed... eventually.
  

[rebelzero]

while horribly stated, the point of the question is really asking - can we make decisions directed from our own sense of (for lack of a better word) "spirit" (i.e. consciousness), or, are we subjecting ourselves to have the decision making process either granted by someone or something else ("prayer/devotion"), or is it completely irrelevant to accept the self and other notions of belief if some sense of the universe is explained through inevitability (which in this case is not "god" but death

[saintrandall]

Though I don't know if I'd ever think to describe myself that way, I got the exact same hapy absurdist/97% you did. How absurd! :) :) :)

OK, that last line was lame. I admit it.