Quiz: What is your world view?

Posted on 23 May, 2005 by Les

Haven’t done a quiz in awhile now and this one seemed pretty good so I figured I’d give it a shot.

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

100%

Materialist

88%

Modernist

81%

Postmodernist

56%

Cultural Creative

44%

Romanticist

44%

Idealist

31%

Fundamentalist

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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I hadn’t really considered the idea that I was an Existentialist before, but in thinking about it further I suppose that it’s true. I do seem to have a ridiculous amount of optimism in humanity’s capacity to better itself despite all the evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in the daily news.

Found this one via Solonor who’s one of those namby-pamby Cultural Creatives.

38 thoughts on “Quiz: What is your world view?”

Serai on 23 May, 2005 at 7:04 PM said:

Nice quiz, and now I have a name for my worldview, cultural creative. I think it was bang on with the description too.
Sepharo on 23 May, 2005 at 7:13 PM said:

Ooh, 100% materialist 88% existentialist 66% postmodernist and 63% modernist.

Wonder what it means if I am nearly equally post-modernist and modernist.

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.

Postmodernist

94%

Materialist

81%

Existentialist

75%

Modernist

50%

Romanticist

50%

Cultural Creative

50%

Fundamentalist

25%

Idealist

19%

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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Not sure how the hell part fundamentalist crept in. Probably the question about religions drifting from their past or somesuch.

Existentialist

100%

Materialist

100%

Modernist

63%

Cultural Creative

50%

Idealist

50%

Fundamentalist

25%

Romanticist

25%

Postmodernist

25%

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Wow.. a tie.. I even got a tie breaker question..
I guess im a Materialist after all.. damn, nothing is ever clear.

Qoayn on 23 May, 2005 at 8:14 PM said:

how the hell did I do that.. man me and webpages dont mix.
Qoayn on 23 May, 2005 at 8:15 PM said:

freaky shit. ill stop now.. les im sorry I broke your thingy.

:0 Ooyan

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%

Cultural Creative

88%

Modernist

81%

Existentialist

69%

Postmodernist

63%

Idealist

25%

Fundamentalist

13%

Romanticist

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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Bah! I wanted to be an Exhibitionist, like Les.

hmmm.

Existentialist

100%

Modernist

94%

Materialist

94%

Postmodernist

63%

Cultural Creative

44%

Romanticist

25%

Idealist

13%

Fundamentalist

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Pretty close to Les’s scores. Wonder where the 6% fundementalist came from?

decrepitoldfool on 23 May, 2005 at 9:26 PM said:

Doh! I tried to take it and got hung up on the third question:

Life has been a self-alienation of the divine and we’re moving closer to realizing our true nature.

I have absolutely no idea what that means so could not answer. They needed a response of “Huh?” And how do I answer this one:

Religions have lost their focus and should be returned to their founding principles.

If I say I disagree, that means I think religions are doing great. If I agree, that means I think religions were doing great.

Other questions required answers far longer than the question itself.

No wonder I always did so poorly on tests. Never did find out what my world view is. (Who writes these tests?)
Solonor on 23 May, 2005 at 10:24 PM said:

Hey! Us namby-pamby Cultural Conwhozits have feelings, ya know…
Qoayn on 23 May, 2005 at 10:25 PM said:

im pretty sure mine still means im lost and prone to much drivel..
warbi on 23 May, 2005 at 10:40 PM said:

Don’t worry, Qoayn. I don’t think that it means that you are lost and prone to much drivel. It just means that you know how to crash Les’s blog!!!
Neil T. on 24 May, 2005 at 2:39 AM said:

I got mostly the same as Les.
Les on 24 May, 2005 at 3:07 AM said:

You missed a small bit of the HTML is all, Qoayn. I fixed it for you. No harm done.

DOF, I had no clue what that was supposed to mean either other than it sounded like if you agreed with it you’re of the Harmonic Convergence New Age sort so I disagreed with it.

Materialist

94%

Existentialist

88%

Modernist

81%

Cultural Creative

63%

Romanticist

63%

Postmodernist

56%

Idealist

31%

Fundamentalist

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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Hmm, I wonder what results I would have had if I had been born in a different part of the world? Interesting thought for the day there..

Shelley on 24 May, 2005 at 7:08 AM said:

I’m with decrepitoldfool. There are some VERY poorly constructed questions in there that allow for contradictory interpretations. There’s even at least one double-barreled question in which you could agree with half the question and disagree with the other (e.g., Religious dogma and scientific empiricism are both steps in the wrong direction.)

Whoever wrote this test never took courses on psychometric theory and test construction. Go back to the drawing board and try again, I’d say.
Ken on 24 May, 2005 at 8:26 AM said:

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

88%

Modernist

63%

Existentialist

56%

Materialist

38%

Romanticist

38%

Idealist

25%

Postmodernist

25%

Fundamentalist

19%

sounds like me
Tish on 24 May, 2005 at 8:26 AM said:

Quoth DoF:

Doh! I tried to take it and got hung up on the third question:

Life has been a self-alienation of the divine and we’re moving closer to realizing our true nature.

I have absolutely no idea what that means so could not answer. They needed a response of “Huh?

I think some of those religious/spiritual questions raised my Fundie score, dammit.

Existentialist

88%

Modernist

75%

Materialist

75%

Idealist

75%

Postmodernist

63%

Cultural Creative

63%

Romanticist

31%

Fundamentalist

31%

What is Your World View? (corrected…again)
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Frumpa on 24 May, 2005 at 8:56 AM said:

Yep,existentialism for me! Theres just us;always has and always will be.The sooner folk take responsibility for thier own actions the better…BwahHaHa!
joe on 24 May, 2005 at 9:55 AM said:

If I say I disagree, that means I think religions are doing great. If I agree, that means I think religions were doing great.

Yeah, I felt that way about several of the questions, too. I ranked as an Existentialist, but the difference in scores from my highest (Ex.) to my lowest (Fundamentalist) weren’t as wide as I thought they’d be. I guess it’s from burning those copies of Catcher in the Rye!

—Joe
Cindi on 24 May, 2005 at 12:46 PM said:

Hmmm. Another “cultural creative” here. From the sound of just those two words, we could be the hope of mankind. Other than that, I just can’t figure it out.

On another quiz, I scored as a “South Park Republican.” I tend to think of me more as a “South Park Moderate.” I pretty much hate both sides of the issues these days. Maybe that’s where the “creative” park kicks in.

Or I could just be sleep deprived and over-medicated.
brandi on 24 May, 2005 at 4:10 PM said:

Hey, make some room at the Existentialists’ table….

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 94%
Modernist 94%
Cultural Creative 75%
Materialist 75%
Postmodernist 63%
Idealist 63%
Fundamentalist31%
Romanticist 25%

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I like the part that says “Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. ”

Well, YES. I get “well that’s an awfully depressing outlook…” all the time, and I don’t understand what’s depressing about it in the least?! We ARE condemned to be free. And it is a vast, wonderful thing.

In that vein, I’d like to link to an Apple commercial that can actually make me cry. I wonder if the other existentialists like it as much as I do….

Here’s to the Crazy Ones

“They push the human race…forward”

I may have chosen some different ‘crazy ones’, my personal idols, but it’s a fine commercial nonetheless.
Les on 24 May, 2005 at 4:19 PM said:

Yep, I’ve always liked that commercial and, yes, it makes me weepy cause I’m a big fat sap in that way. It helps it opens up with one of my personal heroes.
brandi on 24 May, 2005 at 4:28 PM said:

It helps it opens up with one of my personal heroes.

Ayup. Grabs me right in the chest first thing out of the chute.

I say I’d change some of the characters, but then again, I don’t suppose they have any news reel clips prior to the invention of moving pictures, huh?

I’d like to see Thomas Jefferson in there…and maybe Werner Von Braun, but I bet only Nasa geeks would know who he is.
Cindi on 24 May, 2005 at 4:45 PM said:

Werner Von Braun. Wasn’t he the missile guy?
decrepitoldfool on 24 May, 2005 at 4:49 PM said:

…Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown,
“Ha, Nazi, Schmazi,” says Wernher von Braun…
–Tom Lehrer

That is a great commercial. (sniff!) Excuse me, something in my eye here…
brandi on 24 May, 2005 at 5:19 PM said:

Werner Von Braun. Wasn’t he the missile guy?

Yep.

His arrival from Germany was the genesis of the US missile and space programs. He built Redstone Arsenal here, then came Nasa, yadda yadda…. My town’s civic center is the Von Braun Civic Center, if that tells you anything. We have rockets and space shuttles as municiple decor.

His house is about a block from me.

Interesting. However, I don’t 100% agree with that. I do think there’s something out there ‘beyond us’, we just have no way of knowing what it is ….

Materialist

81%

Existentialist

75%

Modernist

63%

Postmodernist

63%

Cultural Creative

56%

Idealist

56%

Romanticist

44%

Fundamentalist

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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%

Romanticist

75%

Fundamentalist

56%

Postmodernist

44%

Modernist

44%

Existentialist

38%

Idealist

31%

Materialist

19%

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So being a Christian I could look at the idea that I don’t like organized religion in the idea of how society defines organized religion. Or more clearly I don’t think the way Christianity is organized in this day and age is how it was ever meant to be, but I still follow my interpretation of it. I was hoping that fundamentalist would be higher up, but whatever.

Cindi on 25 May, 2005 at 8:15 AM said:

brandi: This must mean I watch way too much History Channel?
Ted on 25 May, 2005 at 11:09 AM said:

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.
brandi on 25 May, 2005 at 11:21 AM said:

Yes you do, Cindi!
Metalhead on 25 May, 2005 at 6:26 PM said:

Don’t be silly, you can never watch too much History Channel!! It’s the only thing I turn on the TV for…
Cindi on 26 May, 2005 at 8:33 AM said:

Don’t be silly, you can never watch too much History Channel!! It’s the only thing I turn on the TV for…

Good to know I’m not alone. The History Channel and South Park. Not really sure what that says about me, but….

Used to also tune into TLC and the Discovery Channel, but for some idiotic reason they’ve become the all home improvement/all motorhead channels. Feh.
brandi on 26 May, 2005 at 10:59 AM said:

I’m an Adult Swim and History Channel JUNKIE. You oughta see my Tivo, it’s embarrassing.

I can’t fall asleep without hearing the narrator from History Channel. But it has to be a boring/rerun episode. If it’s too interesting, it keeps me up.
Cindi on 26 May, 2005 at 11:06 AM said:

I can’t fall asleep without hearing the narrator from History Channel. But it has to be a boring/rerun episode. If it’s too interesting, it keeps me up.

brandi, I am the same way. I have to have the History Channel on when I go to bed and it must be a rerun, or I’ll be up until it goes off-air at 4:00 a.m. They’ve been doing the Civil War all week, which doesn’t interest my a whole lot, so that helps.

My daughter thinks I’m nuts. I’ll have to point her to these posts. Thanks!
Gronker on 26 May, 2005 at 1:11 PM said:

Forgot to copy the Modernist description, DOH!

Modernist 100%
Materialist 100%
Existentialist 94%
Postmodernist 56%
Idealist 38%
Fundamentalist 25%
Romanticist 25%
Cultural Creative 13%