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From: eric
Date: Sun May 29 22:11:09 MST 2005
Subject: What is your World View

Responses
Suki: My Test Results (5/26/05)
derek: Split Views (5/27/05)
KeithB: what world? (5/27/05)
benjipark: And here I thought I was going to break the mold. (5/27/05)
Boojeee: No Subject (5/27/05)
Karen: So now what do I do with this?? ;-) (5/27/05)
Karen: Repost it, maybe? (5/27/05)

clrclady: Test (5/27/05)

eric: world view reprinted (5/28/05)

emily: emilyMc (5/28/05)

SueKay: Dag-nab-it! (5/28/05)

derek: Ties (5/28/05)

SueKay: Pop!?! (5/28/05)

emily: tasting..tasting..num num num (5/28/05)

eric: Tests (5/28/05)

andrea: mine (5/28/05)

ryan: My test results (5/29/05)

emily: rip off (5/29/05)

KeithB: snowmen don't wear fire (5/29/05)
emily: Jeff's scores (5/29/05)

emily: 56% fundy (5/29/05)

Suki: Non-commital (5/29/05)

eric: patti cepin (5/29/05)

eric: John cepin (5/29/05)

derek: Derek (5/29/05)

ryan: Me in college (5/29/05)

rodhugen: Rod's version (5/29/05)

emily: 56 56 56 56 (5/29/05)

james: the results are in ... (6/3/05)

Responses (sorted by date)
james: the results are in ... (6/3/05)
emily: 56 56 56 56 (5/29/05)
rodhugen: Rod's version (5/29/05)
ryan: Me in college (5/29/05)
derek: Derek (5/29/05)
eric: John cepin (5/29/05)
eric: patti cepin (5/29/05)
Suki: Non-commital (5/29/05)
emily: 56% fundy (5/29/05)
emily: Jeff's scores (5/29/05)
KeithB: snowmen don't wear fire (5/29/05)
emily: rip off (5/29/05)
ryan: My test results (5/29/05)
andrea: mine (5/28/05)
eric: Tests (5/28/05)
emily: tasting..tasting..num num num (5/28/05)
derek: Ties (5/28/05)
SueKay: Pop!?! (5/28/05)
SueKay: Dag-nab-it! (5/28/05)
emily: emilyMc (5/28/05)
eric: world view reprinted (5/28/05)
clrclady: Test (5/27/05)
Karen: Repost it, maybe? (5/27/05)
Karen: So now what do I do with this?? ;-) (5/27/05)
Boojeee: No Subject (5/27/05)
benjipark: And here I thought I was going to break the mold. (5/27/05)
KeithB: what world? (5/27/05)
derek: Split Views (5/27/05)
Suki: My Test Results (5/26/05)

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From: Suki
Date: Thu May 26 16:17:16 MST 2005
Subject: My Test Results

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From: derek
Date: Thu May 26 17:08:35 MST 2005
Subject: Split Views

Interesting. I had to take a tie-breaker between Cultural Creative and Postmodernist. Now I wish I could go back and see the description. Anyone score a "Postmodernist" that I could check? Also, what's a Romanticist? Other than that it sucks to be single?

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%
Postmodernist
75%
Romanticist
63%
Fundamentalist
50%
Idealist
44%
Modernist
38%
Materialist
31%
Existentialist
19%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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From: KeithB
Date: Thu May 26 21:50:30 MST 2005
Subject: what world?

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From: benjipark
Date: Fri May 27 05:16:52 MST 2005
Subject: And here I thought I was going to break the mold.

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From: Boojeee
Date: Fri May 27 10:38:37 MST 2005
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From: Karen
Date: Fri May 27 14:38:46 MST 2005
Subject: So now what do I do with this?? ;-)

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From: Karen
Date: Fri May 27 14:50:07 MST 2005
Subject: Repost it, maybe?

Eric, could you repost your results? Maybe not... I can't read it, don't know about the rest of y'all...
Looks like I'm the least fundamentalist of all of y'all. Hmmm. And where the heck did "cultural creative" even come from?
Also, what does it say about my world view, that I don't think anyone/anything can label me (or anyone, for that matter) 100 percent anything, least of all a twenty-something item online quiz? Skeptical, 65%? ;-) Maybe I'm 100% human, but if I bear the image of God, does that monkey at all with the percentage?

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From: clrclady
Date: Fri May 27 16:24:11 MST 2005
Subject: Test

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%
Romanticist
75%
Postmodernist
56%
Fundamentalist
50%
Idealist
50%
Existentialist
You scored as Cultural Creative.
So, here is mine. I want to keep taking it to find out if I can figure out what the Romanticist is like Derek asked.
So, I got the test to figure out Romanticist.
You scored as Romanticist.
Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down.

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From: eric
Date: Fri May 27 17:38:58 MST 2005
Subject: world view reprinted

My world view?
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
94%
Postmodernist
75%
Idealist
63%
Fundamentalist
50%
Romanticist
50%
Modernist
13%
Materialist
13%
Existentialist
6%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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From: emily
Date: Fri May 27 18:30:06 MST 2005
Subject: emilyMc

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From: SueKay
Date: Fri May 27 18:31:22 MST 2005
Subject: Dag-nab-it!

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%
Postmodernist
75%
Romanticist
44%
Fundamentalist
31%
Existentialist
31%
Idealist
25%
Modernist
19%
Materialist
19%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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How many other people had to answer a tie-breaker question?
Mine was, which of the following do you prefer:
1 Interpretation is an intrinsic feature of the fabric of the universe.
2 There is a spiritual side to being human.
... which I had a really hard time with because of this Modern Physics class I took in college that opened my eyes to what that first sentence might mean/imply ...
If I had chosen #1, I would have been a POSTMODERNIST. Here is the given definition:
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.
Now what?

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From: derek
Date: Sat May 28 03:56:33 MST 2005
Subject: Ties

I had to answer that same tie breaker, except the statements were reversed. The problem with the test is that all of us that are members of the church believe in God and, thus, the value of spirituality. I am a little suprised though that there aren't a few more fundamentalists amung the ranks. Anyway, I think I still have Eric's "Cultural Creatives" book somewhere. It's binding is shredded though. Basically, we're spiritually and environmentally friendly, don't fit in, and think differently. One of the main things I remember from the book were stories of how much family reunions suck. We don't value the things our parents, grand-, etc., value. Therefore, we are failures with our lives. Uh, my meds are finally kicking in hard. Must make it to bed before collapsing into . . .

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From: SueKay
Date: Fri May 27 19:08:41 MST 2005
Subject: Pop!?!

I was pretty pleased that I had turned out a "Cultural Creative" or whatever the label was. It seemed quite avante guarde, or cool in a "smoking behind the gym" kind of way, or maybe like finding out I am a member of a secret group that is working undercover to change the fabric of the universe...
I'm not feeling so excited about the label now that my parents have taken the test and also been declared "Cultural Creative." Those of you who know my parents may instictively understand this, but for the rest of you, I'm not saying they are bad people or anything, I just like to think I am in a totally different category of thinking than they are.
So there it is. If I have spoiled things for the rest of you, I am very sorry. I think the questions on the quiz are great - perhaps the interpretation of results are still not quite calibrated.
- Susan Park

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From: emily
Date: Sat May 28 07:57:25 MST 2005
Subject: tasting..tasting..num num num

If interpretation is really all there is then the test shows nothing because who knows how each test taker interpreted the questions and response process. It seems like you are supposed to indicate varying levels of "agreement". But what about questions that contains "always", "never", or "every"? If you can think of any instance - even insignificant - that doesn't fit in with the statement then you can't say "that's always/never true" so you should really choose the firmest "disagree". But if you choose that then it seems like the test is interpreting your response as: "there are countless instances where I disagree with that statement". Instead of "I can think of one insignificant instance but its make the whole statement impossible because of the superlative language". But since language is definitely suspect then what did I just say anyway?
One interesting thought that these questions bring to my mind. As far as I can tell, God never says "There is an ultimate reality" all he says is "I am your ultimate reality". It doesn't seem to change anything for us human types on earth....but then I've always had an interest in thinking about useless stuff.
EmilyMc.

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From: eric
Date: Sat May 28 11:38:02 MST 2005
Subject: Tests

Even though test results like these are somewhat silly, I think they give us a very interesting picture of the Village. It is no suprise to me that most Villagers are Cultural Creatives. What is interesting is how each person seems to fall out under that World View. For example Julie is 100% Cultural Creative and 81% Fundamentalist. I think each World View score under Cultural Creative is more an indicator of how we approach our Cultural Creative world view than how much we have adopted each particular View.
eric

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From: andrea
Date: Sat May 28 16:51:33 MST 2005
Subject: mine

So, I won't take it personally when you all give me my walking papers. It doesn't appear that I have the qualifications to be in the Village...
You scored as Romanticist. Romanticism encourages society to look backwards to find our solutions. Your rationale is that things were much better a few hundred years ago so we should thus look back to those times and replace them in our modern society. You believe in a simple life and that the complexities of the modern world have turned it upside down.

Cultural Creative
69%
Romanticist
69%
Existentialist
56%
Fundamentalist
56%
Postmodernist
38%
Idealist
25%
Materialist
6%
Modernist
0%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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From: ryan
Date: Sat May 28 18:41:40 MST 2005
Subject: My test results

I think it's all rigged.
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
94%
Romanticist
75%
Fundamentalist
56%
Postmodernist
50%
Idealist
44%
Existentialist
19%
Modernist
13%
Materialist
0%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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From: emily
Date: Sat May 28 19:38:38 MST 2005
Subject: rip off

Andrea, I feel ripped off! You get this gorgeous peaceful painting to go with your test scores and I just get this abstract computerized snowman. I think I'm going to update my world view.
EmilyMc

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From: KeithB
Date: Sat May 28 20:01:45 MST 2005
Subject: snowmen don't wear fire

I'm pretty sure it's a laser buddha, em... sorry.
Kb

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From: emily
Date: Sat May 28 20:04:29 MST 2005
Subject: Jeff's scores

Drat! I thought for sure he would get us a different picture!
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
63%
Fundamentalist
56%
Postmodernist
50%
Romanticist
44%
Materialist
31%
Modernist
19%
Idealist
13%
Existentialist
13%

What is Your World View? (updated)
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From: emily
Date: Sat May 28 20:10:33 MST 2005
Subject: 56% fundy

So why did so many people get exactly 56% fundamentalist? Hmm...56...56...what can it mean?
EmilyMc

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From: Suki
Date: Sat May 28 20:21:40 MST 2005
Subject: Non-commital

Rock on, Andrea!
So all my scores besides the c-c were 31% or lower. I think that's because I went middle of the road on anything that to me depended completely on context. I guess that makes me 69% non-committal.

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From: eric
Date: Sat May 28 22:14:28 MST 2005
Subject: patti cepin

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From: eric
Date: Sat May 28 22:15:56 MST 2005
Subject: John cepin

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From: derek
Date: Sun May 29 02:14:51 MST 2005
Subject: Derek

Hmm, retook the test and came out different. I'm not sure I agree with it.
You scored as a Derek. Derek is one of the newer groups to enter the realm. You are tall and have an odd craving for doughnuts. You are also watching Trigun. You are spiritual, even though you overslept and missed church last night. Life sort of has a meaning, but it depends a lot on your mood.

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From: ryan
Date: Sun May 29 07:27:41 MST 2005
Subject: Me in college

I retook the quiz to see what would happen if I answered all the questions the way I think I would have about 12 years ago (I had been an atheist and devotee of Ayn Rand).
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%
Modernist
81%
Postmodernist
75%
Materialist
75%
Romanticist
56%
Cultural Creative
44%
Idealist
19%
Fundamentalist
0%

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From: rodhugen
Date: Sun May 29 10:03:19 MST 2005
Subject: Rod's version

Cultural Creative
100%
Romanticist
75%
Postmodernist
63%
Fundamentalist
56%
Existentialist
19%
Materialist
13%
Idealist
13%
Modernist
6%

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From: emily
Date: Sun May 29 16:17:30 MST 2005
Subject: 56 56 56 56

There's that 56% again....

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From: james
Date: Fri Jun  3 16:03:24 MST 2005
Subject: the results are in ...

I would see my world view as spherical in nature. I'm not too sure who these chaps at QuizFarm.com think they are but I would differ to say that they didn't pass on anything related to scientific psychotheory. Would anyone disagree with me on that?
Clearly, the world can't be described as a circle or cycle as some would say because of several postulates. One of which is that the world is not flat as a circle is and not a cycle in the true sense of the world cycle -- because it's clearly more rotational than cyclical.
Another area of concern I have is whomever came up with the term 'cultural creative'. It is clearly a negligible term and the one whom came up with it needs to refine their descriptive vocabulary. Here are my results for whatever worth they might be. Cheerio!
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
100%
Postmodernist
75%
Fundamentalist
75%
Idealist
75%
Materialist
50%
Modernist
25%
Romanticist
25%
Existentialist
25%

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