Metaphysical meme

[desperance]

Your Score: The Existentialist

You scored 60 Materialism and 60 Phenomenology!

Spending equal time in the material and phenomenological realms, the deep thinker, condemned to be free, you are the Existentialist.

Life to you is about choices, and those choices occur not only within the physical environment but the context provided by our individual perceptions and self-moulded codes of behavior. You could be a Christian, agnostic, or atheist existentialist, the philosophy doesn't really force you to choose anything on that front, but while others are merely content with what is, you stand apart by concerning yourself with what it is to be.

Thinkers you may agree with: Jean-Paul Sartre, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Paul Tillich
Thinkers to challenge you: A.J. Ayer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno

Link: The Metaphysician Test written by Jaylhomme on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Wow. Maybe I should write a book and call it...The Secret!

Your Score: The Taoist

You scored 40 Materialism and 70 Phenomenology!

The Way is flux. The Way is order. The Way is Chaos. And if you do it right, the Way is you. You have a good balance of the material and phenomenological realms in your personal experiences, and see reality as a holistic set of interlocking systems, constantly changing, constantly supporting or resting on one another. The Tao (and the Buddhist sect it inspired, Zen) isn't about getting on with it, it's about realizing there's no it to get on with. Thinkers you may agree with: Lao-tzu (duh) Thinkers that may challenge you: One is all.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That's very cool. On this evidence, I confess, I would buy your book. (Tho', obviously, not believe it...)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

That made me laugh so hard my co-workers came over to see what I was doing instead of working. So busted!