another quiz thing

[stevay20]

I was up and decided to do one of these quizzes. Are the results of these surprising to anyone? Do you take quizzes to surprise your self, or to reaffirm what you already know about yourself? Is Anyone surprised by my results?
You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose

Comments

[slapnutrob]

I scored Utilitarianist, but I have some problems with this test. It constantly refers to God's laws and meaning in life--I can't answer those questions accurately if I don't believe in God and consider the idea of a "meaning of life" totally absurd. The whole introduction of the idea of a God to me makes life meaningless. If the universe was created for some purpose, then why is the universe here in the first place, and why is it the way it is? I think the easiest way to answer this question is that the universe has always existed as a field of throbbing energy and that it just is. It irritates me to no end when people impose some sort of intentionality on the universe or our lives.

To answer your questions, people usually take these quizzes because they're bored. I don't think they have specific introspective goals in mind.

I don't fully understand existentialism, having never studied it before. From that short definition and what I know about it, it seems nonsensical to me. You might expect that from me though... why would I believe it's up to me to choose my meaning when I think there isn't one? I guess I'm a little surprised that that's your result.

As to the online dating sites, I signed up and seriously participated in 5 or 6 of those when I was going through my pathetic hopeless romantic phase, and found them all to be useless. The biggest reason is that you usually need to subscribe for like a month just to get contact information for one person. Even if you do, good luck finding anyone worth your time that's interested in you. Real-life is overwhelmingly more useful or effective.

If you're interested in dating, here's a suggestion for you: Stop hanging out with Nikki every day! Go out of your way to get involved in new social circles and meet new people. I know you already do this at least a little, but that's really the only way and the more you do that, the better.

[mindlesstool_]

We'll sit down someday and have a discussion about existentialism. I can probably clear alot of it up (and yes it does seem quite contradictory just like Nihilism, they are really two sides of the same coin).

Basically think of it like this. The universe is a machine made of infinite other machines. Each machine effects all other machines. If you were to cause one machine to stop effecting all other machines, all other machines would cease to function. (this is the argument for free will and not killing).

We are each one of the machines, each of our actions is part of the basis for another. You could do anything to another machine (rape it, beat it, give it a hug) because that machine will still operate, just differently. Killing someone makes their machine stop though, and that makes the universe less diverse and can lead to a exponential break down destroying it.

That segues into the concept of Humanity as Existence. We are the universe. What is physical is a lie, there is no matter or energy. There is only a great delusion that we all (as being everything/nothing) choose to believe so that we can exist. For there to be non-existence there must be existence. Therefor we have no choice but to exist as we do (we couldn't non exist if we didn't exist)

But like any other philosophy it comes in different flavors and doctrines.