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When Worldviews Collide

by ***Dave on Mon 23-May-05 7:40pm · 5 comments

in Personality Tests, Religion

You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Cultural Creative

75%

Postmodernist

50%

Existentialist

44%

Idealist

38%

Modernist

19%

Fundamentalist

19%

Romanticist

6%

Materialist

0%

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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A lot of people have touted this particular test. I tried it twice, trying to be less nuanced the second time, and in both cases came up with this.

Hrm.

I suspect I’m still a bit more nuanced in my religious (vs. spiritual) life than the test picks up on. Does believing in the symbolic nature of some scripture, or disagreeing that it should be considered literal, make one irreligious? I guess so, according to the test. Oh, well, there’s plenty of organized religion I do “shy away from,” so I guess it’s a fit.

On the other hand, I’m not necessarily in bad company.

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1 David Newman Mon 23-May-05 11:42pm at 11:42pm

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

Materialist

50%

Romanticist

44%

Postmodernist

44%

Cultural Creative

38%

Existentialist

38%

Modernist

19%

Fundamentalist

13%

Idealist

0%
What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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Although that’s probably the best representation of my beliefs among the possible answers, I think the questions were simplistic and demonstrate that either the author really doesn’t understand what he’s trying to test for very well, or he’s not very good at writing questions for such a diagnostic quiz. There are two problems with the quiz that I can point out easily. The first is that the various categories are not all dealing with the same subject. For example, modernism and postmodernism are not really about metaphysics, while materialism and idealism are. The second is that if the author is using the terms in something like the standard way, I’m definitely not a “romanticist” or a “postmodernist”. My views are much closer to the moderns than to the postmoderns.

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2 Avocet Mon 23-May-05 11:58pm at 11:58pm

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

Materialist

94%

Modernist

88%

Existentialist

88%

Romanticist

50%

Postmodernist

38%

Cultural Creative

31%

Fundamentalist

13%

Idealist

6%

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3 Randal Tue 24-May-05 12:02am at 12:02am

Huh. It placed me as Cultural Creative but I’m equally Materialist.

Cultural Creative

69%

Materialist

69%

Existentialist

63%

Modernist

56%

Postmodernist

56%

Idealist

38%

Romanticist

25%

Fundamentalist

19%

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4 Boulder Dude Tue 24-May-05 7:31am at 7:31am

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

Modernist

94%

Materialist

94%

Postmodernist

81%

Existentialist

81%

Cultural Creative

75%

Idealist

50%

Romanticist

44%

Fundamentalist

25%
What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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5 Amanda Helstrom Tue 24-May-05 1:23pm at 1:23pm

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. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist

69%

Cultural Creative

63%

Modernist

63%

Materialist

63%

Romanticist

56%

Idealist

56%

Postmodernist

50%

Fundamentalist

31%
What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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