Get the Rack, Biggles

[pmcray]

Hardhat

You are an atheist, a rationalist, a believer in the triumph of science and of reason over libido. You can’t stand mumbo jumbo, ritual, spiritual nonsense of any kind, and you refuse to allow for these longings in others.


Astrologers, Scientologists and new–age crystal ball creeps are no different in your view from priests, rabbis and imams. They’re all just weak–minded pilgrims on the road to easy answers. Nature as revealed by science is awesome enough for you, but it’s a nature that needs curbing and taming by us on our evolutionary journey to perfection.


Your heros are Einstein, Darwin, Marx and — these days — Gould, Blakemore, Watson, Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Could you be hiding a little behind those absolutist views, worried that, if you let in a few doubts and contradictory ideas, the whole edifice might crumble? Loosen up a bit and try to enjoy the amazing variety of human belief systems. Don’t worry — it’s unlikely you’ll end up chanting your days away in some distant mountain cult.

What kind of humanist are you? Click here to find out.

Comments

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I am a 'Haymaker' apparently, which does not make a great deal of sense really. It is nice to have one of these things where only a small minority of the questions fall into one of the huh? / none of the above / the question is based on a false premise categories.

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

Hairshirt. Puritan hammer of godlessness, apparently. What are both of you thinking, that you are so weak in our beliefs?

>only a small minority of the questions fall into one of the huh? / none of the above / the question is based on a false premise categories.

clearly you are of one mind with the creator (of the quiz). I found it frequntly was much like exactly what you say it's not.

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I think I'm with the Weasel on this one in terms of the questions, but I have a feeling the quiz is aimed at a very specific class of person to which the Weasel and I seem to more or less belong to it. But at least I now know there is a New Humanist magazine. (I hope it's not terribly worthy.)

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

So who are these people, and why do they never invite me to their parties?

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

At some time we should get a number of these tests and have a communal vote on the answers, we will then find that each person has at least one belief that revolts each other person and no-one will ever speak to anyone else ever again.

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I had a look at the New Humanist website (http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/). Geesh, where has this been all my life? A pretty amazing set of links: http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/base_comments.php?id=160_0_4_0_C. Butterflies and Wheels (http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/) "fighting fashionable nonsense". I wish they did invite us to their parties. I am going to a party at the London Review of Books Bookshop next Friday but I had to pay for that (it is singles night).

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

"Circumcision? How can you possibly be [for it|against it]!!!???"

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

As I recall, undyingking is worried that I may be soft on the 'eating babies' issue.

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

Well, we are *all* worried about your softness on *that* issue.