What's your spiritual type?

[jimlintott]

30 spiritual dabbler ???

I'm not sure I can be a spiritual dabbler when I couldn't answer question 22 at all. I have no spiritual quest. Questions 14 and 25 could also not be answered. I had to go back and try again.

I should have scored lower. But I kicked Ian's butt. Low scores are better, right.

 

[PixyMisa]

30 spiritual dabbler ???

Well, if you rescaled the test so that scores were in the range 0 to 100, that would be a 7. Sounds a lot more reasonable, doesn't it?

I should have scored lower. But I kicked Ian's butt. Low scores are better, right.

Indubitably.

 

[Interesting Ian]

Why is that a pity? Religious folks strive to be more religious all the time, why shouldn't us godless spiritless heathens try to be more spiritless and godless?

Edited to fix a typo (strike into strive). (Is it a rule that you have to say that when you edit a post, or what?)

I really don't see the purpose of taking the quiz unless you're going to be honest in your answers!

 

[stamenflicker]

And Option 4 is nonsense because faith is not a search for truth at all; quite the opposite.

How insanely limited the scope of such a world view.

Flick

 

[PixyMisa]

And Option 4 is nonsense because faith is not a search for truth at all; quite the opposite.

How insanely limited the scope of such a world view.

How so? This statement clearly follows from the dictionary definition of faith. Faith is belief without evidence, which is intrinsically a repudiation of the search for truth.

 

[Fade]

And Option 4 is nonsense because faith is not a search for truth at all; quite the opposite.

How insanely limited the scope of such a world view.

Flick

Pixy beat me!

Anyway, as with most things, you are wrong

 

[LW]

I really don't see the purpose of taking the quiz unless you're going to be honest in your answers!

For me, it was impossible to be honest in my answers. None of the given choices matched what I would have answered honestly.

 

[Seismosaurus]

I really don't see the purpose of taking the quiz unless you're going to be honest in your answers!

Think of them as being the answers that you aspire to...

 

[Seismosaurus]

How so? This statement clearly follows from the dictionary definition of faith. Faith is belief without evidence, which is intrinsically a repudiation of the search for truth.

Perfectly said.

Faith is a statement that a particular view is true, without evidence to support it - or even despite evidence to contradict it.

How can this possibly be called a search for truth?

 

[ehbowen]

OK, Ian, read it and weep:

(quote)

What's Your Spiritual Type?

You scored 91, on a scale of 25 to 100. Here's how to interpret your score:

25 - 29
Hardcore Skeptic -- but interested or you wouldn't be here!
30 - 39
Spiritual Dabbler -- Open to spiritual matters but far from impressed
40 - 49
Active Spiritual Seeker – Spiritual but turned off by organized religion
50 - 59
Spiritual Straddler – One foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality
60 - 69
Old-fashioned Seeker -- Happy with my religion but searching for the right expression of it
70 - 79
Questioning Believer – You have doubts about the particulars but not the Big Stuff
80 - 89
Confident Believer – You have little doubt you’ve found the right path
90 - 100
Candidate for Clergy

(Eric)

And, yes, I was as honest as possible.

If you'd like to have some more fun, try this:

The Philosophers' Magazine--Battleground God

My score: No direct hits, two bullets bitten.

(quote)

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity without being hit and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and well thought out.

 

[stamenflicker]

This statement clearly follows from the dictionary definition of faith. Faith is belief without evidence, which is intrinsically a repudiation of the search for truth.

Pixy & Fade,

You are so mistaken in regards to what you accept as "truth." Truth mainifests itself at numerous levels. As I've said before, we can take the statement--

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."

Then we can take our color cards from the local paint store, pull a blade of grass from each side of the fence and come back with the response and compare it to our color cards. "No it isn't. Your statement is not true," we can reply with accuracy.

Or we can learn to think outside the box, discover meaning and truth in the sentence and see where or how it applies to human experience.

Like I said, you blade pickers and color patch freaks live extremely limited lives in your quest for truth.

Flick

PS-- Ruby, I scored 73.

 

[Fade]

You are so mistaken in regards to what you accept as "truth." Truth mainifests itself at numerous levels. As I've said before, we can take the statement--

No.

Truth is truth.

All your silly theologizing doesn't change that simple fact.

Try again though. Maybe one of these days you'll hit on something meaningfull.

 

[PixyMisa]

Blah blah.

None of which is relevant. Faith is belief without evidence. If you have faith, you are not seeking the truth, you're assuming it. If you have evidence, it's not faith.

 

[stamenflicker]

FADE -- All your silly theologizing doesn't change that simple fact.

PIXY -- None of which is relevant

The depth of these responses will keep me occupied for hours. Thanks for the philos-OH-phizing. I check back later to see if you have contributed something a little deeper.

Flick

 

[evildave]

You didn't answer all of the questions so we can't tally your score.
Hit your browser's back button to finish answering the questions.

After going back and poking radio buttons for unanswered questions: 38; Dabbler.

Taking the test is a bit like explaining a "False Dilemma" to Franko again.

Several of the questions were better candidates for "no answer". I can't just leave the "Have you stopped kicking babies?" questions blank and get a score out of it. I suppose the deeper question to ask ourselves is, what do we expect from the spiritual equivalent of a "Is your boyfriend cute enough?" quiz in a teeny bopper magazine.

 

[aerosolben]

31. Usually the skeptical answer, but for a few pragmatic uses of tolerance (such as prayer, which isn't useless just because it doesn't do what you think it does).

Like I said, you blade pickers and color patch freaks live extremely limited lives in your quest for truth.

You're misusing the word truth, methinks. Perhaps you mean fulfillment.
You also seem to have developed a very antagonistic view of skepticism, I'm sorry to see.

 

[BillyJoe]

Faith is belief without evidence. If you have faith, you are not seeking the truth, you're assuming it. If you have evidence, it's not faith.

We all have faith.

It's a question of whether we have blind faith or evidence-based faith.
(See Randi's take in this weeks Commentary)


BTW, Score: 28 - Hardcore Skeptic.

 

[Mercutio]

Wow. I don't know what it says about me, but I did not even go to the site. I have a problem with the use of the phrase "spiritual type" in the first place--it would be a little like asking what sort of a flower a socket wrench is, or what sort of model ship a spiral galaxy is, or some other impossiblilty. Reading through the posts, seeing the scores, I still have absolutely no interest in going to this site. It did surprise me to see nobody else here with this comment--yes, at least one unable to finish the test, but you all at least tried. Again, I don't know what this says about me...

 

[stamenflicker]

You're misusing the word truth, methinks. Perhaps you mean fulfillment.

I disagree. If I had used the word fact, perhaps. Truth and fact are very different things. Take the example I provided...

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."

Is this a true statement? The answer is that it depends.
Is this a factual statement? The answer is a resounding no.

Here we see perfectly that truth is the interplay of language: the intent of the communicator and the ability of the receipent to decipher the statement's validity.

What we have on this board are people uncapable of finding "truth" because they have been blinded by facts. This ultimately results in meaning deprivation in the individual's life. I can only suggest that such individuals expand their ability to receive truth.

Flick

 

[Seismosaurus]

Or we can learn to think outside the box, discover meaning and truth in the sentence and see where or how it applies to human experience.

Like I said, you blade pickers and color patch freaks live extremely limited lives in your quest for truth.

You are simply playing with words here. The phrase "the grass is always greener..." is not a literal one. But it is meant to represent a real truth. Stated properly, it would say "people always believe that the situation others are in is better than their own situation" - or similar.

But this is still a completely testable statement; we can do research to find out if this statement really is true, just as you describe. Or, we can simply have faith that it is even though we lack evidence, or in spite of whatever evidence we do have.

If we do take that latter path, then we are not searching for the truth of the statement - we are still just deciding that it is true no matter what.