Battleground God

[Spectre]

On http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm. No "right" or "wrong", but will check your internal consistency about your idea of god.

 

[Nasty]

Funny and fun...

I took one direct hit. I have faith in God despite a lack of evidence, but don't have faith in the Joch Ness monster despite a lack of evidence.

Odd that they would in faith in God and the monster. Seems apples and oranges to me...one is a physical thing (supposedly) and the other spiritual.

 

[Kismet]

One hit, nothing else.

THAT's what I get for letting other folks have thier own position on deities.

I coudda been a contenda

 

[jmings]

Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity without being hit and biting only one bullet suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and well thought out.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. The bitten bullet occurred because you responded in a way that required that you held a view that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, because you bit only one bullet and avoided direct hits completely you still qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

Click here if you want to review the criteria by which hits and bullets are determined.

How did you do compared to other people?

* 317981 people have completed this activity to date.
* You suffered zero direct hits and bit 1 bullet.
* This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
* 45.80% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
* 7.68% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.

I must admit some of the questions gave me pause.
I was a philosophy major 30+ years ago in college and epistimology and logic were my favorite subsets.
I do believe that belief itself has a hierarchy.
I believe my spouse faithfull.
I believe the sun will rise tommrow although I know that our system is heliocentric but I also believe someday the sun will cease to rise.

 

[Yvsa]

I did better than I expected. :thumbup:


You suffered zero direct hits and bit 1 bullet.

317998 people have completed this activity to date.
This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
45.80% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
7.68% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.

 

[Grob]

The do it yourself diety is interesting too, kind of like the main event but checking internal consistancy in only the concept of god. My favorite philosophical questions are the induction problems. Its really interesting to see how there is no logical basis for any claims about the future even claims about probability. Therefor science as we know it has no logical basis, having the goal of predicting how things will behave in the future.

Gord

 

[hollowdweller]

I've taken a few hits before and saw god

 

[jmings]

I've taken a few hits before and saw god

>> > "And now, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for our
>> > favourite daytime
>> > fun-show "Let's make a dope-deal!"
>> >
>> > And today we have with us BOB!
>> >
>> > Welcome Bob. You've told me that you have a phd, an
>> > md (etc). Now all
>> > of us is wondering, - what made you drop out?"
>> >
>> > "Well some people think it was an acid trip I took,
>> > you know..."
>> >
>> > "Aha, but what was it really, Bob?"
>> >
>> > "I played Black Sabbath at 78-speed, man."
>> >
>> > "And what happened?"
>> >
>> > "I saw God!"
>> >
>> > "You saw god!
>> > You've told me that you have a hobby. You make
>> > candles."
>> >
>> > "Yeah, they're really neat tablecandles..."
>> >
>> > "Tablecandles, Bob?"
>> >
>> > "Yeah, you pour wax on a table, and you set it on
>> > fire, man."
>> >
>> > "Oh, that's a nice hobby. And now to todays contest.
>> > You see these
>> > three doors in front of you?"
>> >
>> > "Yeah."
>> >
>> > "Behind one of these doors is fifty pounds of
>> > Libanese blond hasch..."
>> >
>> > (the studio audience: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
>> >
>> > "Makes your eyes red just thinking about them, huh?"
>> >
>> > "Behind the other two doors are narcs. And now to
>> > our first question
>> > and if you can answer this one you win fifty keys."
>> >
>> > "Fifty keys, wow!"
>> >
>> > "And here's your first question, Bob: What is your
>> > name? You have
>> > sixty seconds."
>> >
>> > "Uhhh....I knew it when I came in here."
>> >
>> > "Ten seconds, Bob."
>> >
>> > "Uhhh....Bob! Bob!!!"
>> >
>> > "Bob, yes Bob, and you win fifty keys!!!!"
>> >
>> > "Wow!.."
>> >
>> > "And now to the final. In front of you there are
>> > three doors, door
>> > number one, door number two and door number three.
>> > Now you have to
>> > guess behind which door the fifty pounds of libanese
>> > blond hasch is.
>> > Which door do you choose?"
>> >
>> > "Uhhh......
>> > Uhhh...... - onetwo - nono
>> > Twoone - noooo
>> >
>> > Three...yes three"
>> >
>> > "Three! You chose door number three and let's see
>> > who's behind this
>> > door - it's officer O'Malley - YOU ARE BUSTED!!!"
>> >
>> > "And ladies and gentlemen, join us next week for the
>> > next episode of
>> > your favourite daytime funshow - Let's make a dope
>> > deal!"

 

[MauiRob]

I've taken a few hits before and saw god

:thumbup:

 

[Spectre]

Years ago, I realized the meaning of life while I was in the bathroom peeing, but I forgot it before I could get back and write it down.

Ah, well. Gives me something to strive for, I reckon!

J

 

[jmings]

 

[SNAFU]

Took one hit and bit the bullet once. Apparantely got the 2nd highest award.

 

[Edward Teach]

Some of those questions are "either or" when a third (or fourth) option should be available.
Also some suffer from the lack of a time element. Just because God hasn't acted yet, doesn't mean he won't tomorrow.

 

[munk]

The problem with 'god questions' is that God is a paradox and an event interactive with time. It is a not a fixed postion or thing. The inconsistancies this test attempts to measure are typical of the limits of language and spacial concepts of our reason; they are not neccesarily proven absolutes or even compelling foundations of agreement or logic. God is the beginning, the present, the end; how then, can you take this test?
This is a better effort than I've seen in a long time, but it still rings hollow for me.
I'm not going to defend my understanding against anyone's model of Kant or Heideger et al. Not interested in parlor games. The best way to understand God, or to 'describe' that event we call God, are found in a lot of the Parables Jesus taught and seeming inconsistant crazy lines of Budhism.
And there is no way to put that understanding, which straddles space and time, into a framework of any construct.

Don't you know life is damned if you do and damned if you don't? Have we not all made decisions which are 'best' in some ways and horrible in others? Is not the expression 'it's all relative' both true and false at the same time?

I was doing great on this 'game' until I started taking hits based upon the author's assumptions of contradictions per his rational universe. It was not my universe.

There isn't any way to make this 'game' fair, any more than there is a cultural or sexual orientated free IQ test.

Spring is here. Our eyes are open and we are a miracle, an experiential, physical reality. We are made of stuff, an expression of stuff, the arm of stuff, the hands of God; we are not rocks. Put that into a God test.

This concludes the 'new age munk' portion of the Spring Program. Those wishing more insight in the cult of munk and brainwashing techniques stay tuned for further blather. Those who want any small item of value can find it here in friendship. Those wanting a little laugh have one here. Those wanting evidence of corruption look no further. This silly writing straddles the same event parodox as the God test; how can we condense this into either or, yes or no?


munk

 

[jmings]

<kersnipity>
how can we condense this into either or, yes or no?


munk

I rather collect aphorisms.

Language is the attempt to squeeze a technicolor 3-dimensional universe onto a monochromatic flat surface.

Y'all might enjoy the Nietzsche Aphorism Generator which are mostly best described by Wolfgang Pauli's famous phrase, "It's not even wrong."

"Red thigh in the morning, sailor take warning."

 

[Spectre]

I found the questions and points system on BG fairly logical...of course, I would, since I suffered no hits and bit no bullets.

J