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  • What kind of humanist are you?
     OP - August 01, 2009, 08:33 AM

    Quote
    Hounded Humanist

    Oh, God – I mean, oh, Dawkins! – why does it all have to be so difficult? You try so hard, don’t you, to be a good person and to lead a blameless life? You keep a compost heap, cycle to the bottle bank, and the list of countries you won’t buy from is longer than the washing line for your baby’s towelling nappies. You would never cheat on your partner, drink and drive, accept bribes or fiddle your expenses. You try not to waste money, but give loads to charity. But you can’t help feeling guilty a lot of the time. It took quite an effort to throw off the shackles of your religious upbringing and even today you occasionally wonder if you’ve done the right thing. At other times, though, you remember with a shudder of revulsion the hypocrisy and constraints that you’ve escaped. You feel awkward when Christopher Hitchens argues that religion is primitive. Yet you’re filled with violent loathing when Jehovah’s Witnesses bang on your door or you encounter a line of orange Hare Krishnas chanting in the street. The commentator you most admire is Terry Eagleton, who, despite having no truck with religion itself, is a powerful advocate of religious values. You’re a reluctant atheist who’d have preferred some fundamental certainties but realised with sadness that there weren’t any. Lighten up – and wear your humanism with heart.


    Take the quiz: http://newhumanist.org.uk/2088

    Haha because this does sound like me.  Cheesy

    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #1 - August 01, 2009, 08:51 AM

    Me too - we must have given pretty much the same answers

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #2 - August 01, 2009, 09:05 AM

    Do you need an account to do this one? I never do the Hellow Cupid ones because I cbf'd with their login stuff.

    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #3 - August 01, 2009, 09:17 AM

    no, its 14 multiple choice questions

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  • Humanist Vegetarian
     Reply #4 - August 01, 2009, 09:40 AM

    http://www.humanist.veggroup.org/index.html
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #5 - August 01, 2009, 09:45 AM

    What kind of humanist are you?


    Hedonistic Humanist

    You are one of life?s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on this glorious planet. What first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy. You can?t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn?t lay down your life for a concept, though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards, and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful (for a while), irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way. You adored the humanist London bus slogan (?There?s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life?) and are delighted that wild young comedians like Stewart Lee, Christina Martin and Ricky Gervais share your full-blooded rejection of religion. Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You?d probably better open another bottle and agree that for you there?s no contest.


    Sounds about right.  parrot

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #6 - August 01, 2009, 09:49 AM

    nice category to be in!  Were you live & let live with your responses regarding niqab & muslims?

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #7 - August 01, 2009, 10:11 AM

    Yup. Went with the "don't encourage them to be paranoid and lock their daughters up" option.

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #8 - August 01, 2009, 10:19 AM

    That's what I chose too.


    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #9 - August 01, 2009, 10:22 AM

    I think there are only two or three types

    I tried the test many times different times with diffferent answers (because none of the categories fit me) and I only got Hedonist or Hounded.

    Maybe I'm not a humanist?

    In fact, I probably am not. Screw the human race, I'm going to Kringerd IV of the Lijyeld galaxy, where the inhabitants are cool.

    "I am ready to make my confession. I ask for no forgiveness father, for I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to survive. I did not ask for the life that I was given, but it was given nonetheless-and with it, I did my best"
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #10 - August 01, 2009, 10:46 AM

    I am a Hedonistic Humanist Smiley
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #11 - August 02, 2009, 03:06 PM

    I'm a Hounded Humanist too.

    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #12 - August 02, 2009, 03:19 PM

    I'm a Hounded Humanist too.


    Me too. And the description doesn't fit at all. Horoscopes are more accurate
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #13 - August 02, 2009, 03:31 PM

    What kind of humanist are you?
    Hounded Humanist

    Oh, God ? I mean, oh, Dawkins! ? why does it all have to be so difficult? You try so hard, don?t you, to be a good person and to lead a blameless life? You keep a compost heap, cycle to the bottle bank, and the list of countries you won?t buy from is longer than the washing line for your baby?s towelling nappies. You would never cheat on your partner, drink and drive, accept bribes or fiddle your expenses. You try not to waste money, but give loads to charity. But you can?t help feeling guilty a lot of the time. It took quite an effort to throw off the shackles of your religious upbringing and even today you occasionally wonder if you?ve done the right thing. At other times, though, you remember with a shudder of revulsion the hypocrisy and constraints that you?ve escaped. You feel awkward when Christopher Hitchens argues that religion is primitive. Yet you?re filled with violent loathing when Jehovah?s Witnesses bang on your door or you encounter a line of orange Hare Krishnas chanting in the street. The commentator you most admire is Terry Eagleton, who, despite having no truck with religion itself, is a powerful advocate of religious values. You?re a reluctant atheist who?d have preferred some fundamental certainties but realised with sadness that there weren?t any. Lighten up ? and wear your humanism with heart.

    Call me TAP TAP! for I am THE ASS PATTER!
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #14 - August 02, 2009, 04:00 PM

    Quote
    Hedonistic Humanist

    You are one of life?s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on this glorious planet. What first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy. You can?t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn?t lay down your life for a concept, though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards, and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful (for a while), irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way. You adored the humanist London bus slogan (?There?s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life?) and are delighted that wild young comedians like Stewart Lee, Christina Martin and Ricky Gervais share your full-blooded rejection of religion. Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You?d probably better open another bottle and agree that for you there?s no contest.


    Eh, I think this is only partly true. I do enjoy "the good life" so much as it is possible on my pay, but my ethical/moral code, while unorthodox,  is very strict and does, in fact, take precedence over my own pleasure. And I would most certainly lay down my life for an idea. Just because I've abandoned "in your face" atheism/antitheism as rather pointless in my little world doesn't mean there aren't ideas I'd fight and die for.

    And I love that quote by Marx on the test-- it's one of my favorites.

    Do you need an account to do this one? I never do the Hellow Cupid ones because I cbf'd with their login stuff.


    You talking about OK Cupid? You don't need an account for those tests.

    fuck you
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #15 - August 02, 2009, 07:47 PM

    Quote
    Hedonistic Humanist
    You are one of life?s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on this glorious planet. What first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy. You can?t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn?t lay down your life for a concept, though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards, and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful (for a while), irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way. You adored the humanist London bus slogan (?There?s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life?) and are delighted that wild young comedians like Stewart Lee, Christina Martin and Ricky Gervais share your full-blooded rejection of religion. Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You?d probably better open another bottle and agree that for you there?s no contest.


    None of this actually fits!

    "At 8:47 I do a grenade jump off a ladder."
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #16 - August 02, 2009, 10:15 PM

    A bit of a ridiculous test - like FF said, everyone is one of 2 combinations hedonistic  humanist or a hounded humanist. 

    I am even more surprised by the fact that you are automatically seen as a humanist, just for taking the test?

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #17 - August 03, 2009, 02:43 AM

    What kind of humanist are you?


    Hedonistic Humanist

    You are one of life?s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on this glorious planet. What first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy. You can?t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn?t lay down your life for a concept, though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards, and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful (for a while), irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way. You adored the humanist London bus slogan (?There?s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life?) and are delighted that wild young comedians like Stewart Lee, Christina Martin and Ricky Gervais share your full-blooded rejection of religion. Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You?d probably better open another bottle and agree that for you there?s no contest.


    Sounds about right.  parrot



    Me too... me likey!  dance

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  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #18 - August 03, 2009, 06:15 PM

    Hedonistic Humanist

    You are one of life?s enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on this glorious planet. What first attracted you to atheism was the prospect of liberation from the Ten Commandments, few of which are compatible with a life of pleasure. You play hard and work quite hard, have a strong sense of loyalty and a relaxed but consistent approach to your philosophy. You can?t see the point of abstract principles and probably wouldn?t lay down your life for a concept, though you might for a friend. Something of a champagne humanist, you admire George Bernard Shaw for his cheerful agnosticism and pursuit of sensual rewards, and your Hollywood hero is Marlon Brando, who was beautiful (for a while), irascible and aimed for goodness in his own tortured way. You adored the humanist London bus slogan (?There?s probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life?) and are delighted that wild young comedians like Stewart Lee, Christina Martin and Ricky Gervais share your full-blooded rejection of religion. Sometimes you might be tempted to allow your own pleasures to take precedence over your ethics. But everyone is striving for that elusive balance between the good and the happy life. You?d probably better open another bottle and agree that for you there?s no contest.
  • Re: What kind of humanist are you?
     Reply #19 - August 04, 2009, 01:35 AM

    I am a hounded humanist too, except for the saving my money and giving it to charity part :p.

    We keep hearing about how Jack Straw or the French government have mentioned the veil and our doing so puts us in the same boat as them. How so? I want a ban on the burka, neqab and child veiling.

    you can either defend women or you must defend Islam. You can’t defend both

    - Maryam Namaze
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