Well... We could have given totally different answers to totally different questions and ended up with the same score. that's one of the problems with breaking stuff down into numbers.
Most of my answers that probably made me seem like a crackpot were the ones related to this very subject. I do believe that people are generally myopic when searching for 'the truth' and that by in large 'truth' is just a social construct. I don't think that anyone who really understands science can say they 'know' the absolute truth about something.
Newton's laws work well enough for day to day use but they break down at the Atomic level and Einstein proved they were broken. Einstein's theories provide all sorts of models for how other things work and yet Quantum Physics shows us places where they break down too. To me, that's the very nature of science. Research and keep researching. Anything you 'know' is true is probably worth investigating.
s far as religion goes, I suppose I do come in near Crowley (much as that makes me uncomfortable) I think that whether or not God exists is completely irrelevant and that people are their own gods. If prayer or ritual is what you use to tap into your own strength, that's okay. My apparent total contempt for religion is because people believe they know the ONLY truth and they try to shove it on other people with laws and fear tactics.
I think also that science and spirituality exist in different parts of my brain. I do have spirituality and magical thinking and I engage in them more often that most people would guess. They are however, strictly internal When I'm interacting with the outside world I prefer to deal with common truths that we can all accept. Math and science, even if not perfect, are a LOT better than trying to make everyone believe the same thing.
I really wouldn't care if christians thought gays were going to burn in Hell if they didn't try to pass laws to make us second-class citizens. If they content the theory of evolution, that's fine with me. Personally I think there's enough data from enough overlapping fields that it's pretty solid and it better fits all of the data than any religious explanation. But if they throw a screaming fit and just demand that people get taught their ignorant view without a shred of evidence for it, OVER all the other ignorant views without a shred of evidence in addition to the one that most people can probably agree on if they research it.... Then I want to smack them.
So... Maybe the quiz results are correct in some sense but I think it's missing a larger picture.
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Date: 2008-01-18 08:25 pm (UTC)Most of my answers that probably made me seem like a crackpot were the ones related to this very subject. I do believe that people are generally myopic when searching for 'the truth' and that by in large 'truth' is just a social construct. I don't think that anyone who really understands science can say they 'know' the absolute truth about something.
Newton's laws work well enough for day to day use but they break down at the Atomic level and Einstein proved they were broken. Einstein's theories provide all sorts of models for how other things work and yet Quantum Physics shows us places where they break down too. To me, that's the very nature of science. Research and keep researching. Anything you 'know' is true is probably worth investigating.
s far as religion goes, I suppose I do come in near Crowley (much as that makes me uncomfortable) I think that whether or not God exists is completely irrelevant and that people are their own gods. If prayer or ritual is what you use to tap into your own strength, that's okay. My apparent total contempt for religion is because people believe they know the ONLY truth and they try to shove it on other people with laws and fear tactics.
I think also that science and spirituality exist in different parts of my brain. I do have spirituality and magical thinking and I engage in them more often that most people would guess. They are however, strictly internal When I'm interacting with the outside world I prefer to deal with common truths that we can all accept. Math and science, even if not perfect, are a LOT better than trying to make everyone believe the same thing.
I really wouldn't care if christians thought gays were going to burn in Hell if they didn't try to pass laws to make us second-class citizens. If they content the theory of evolution, that's fine with me. Personally I think there's enough data from enough overlapping fields that it's pretty solid and it better fits all of the data than any religious explanation. But if they throw a screaming fit and just demand that people get taught their ignorant view without a shred of evidence for it, OVER all the other ignorant views without a shred of evidence in addition to the one that most people can probably agree on if they research it.... Then I want to smack them.
So... Maybe the quiz results are correct in some sense but I think it's missing a larger picture.