Battleground God.

[sk8]

Check out this link http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm
click the link at the bottom to start.
It's a critical thinking quiz which tests the concept behind your ideology. pretty cool.

In this activity you’ll be asked a series of 17 questions about God and religion. In each case, apart from Question 1, you need to answer True or False. The aim of the activity is not to judge whether these answers are correct or not. Our battleground is that of rational consistency. This means to get across without taking any hits, you’ll need to answer in a way which is rationally consistent. What this means is you need to avoid choosing answers which contradict each other. If you answer in a way which is rationally consistent but which has strange or unpalatable implications, you’ll be forced to bite a bullet.

I took three direct hits and one bullet the first time.

How did you do?

[Ngo_35]

taking first year philosophy will help with this thing. Pretty neat!

[nkn1983]

0 direct hits and 2 bullets and I got the medal of distinction. Not too bad.

[hyperion]

You took 1 direct hit and you bit 1 bullets. The average player of this activity to date takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullet. 285297 people have so far undertaken this activity.

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 being hit only once and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are well thought out and almost entirely internally consistent.


The direct hit you suffered occurred because one set of your answers implied a logical contradiction. The bitten bullets occurred because you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analyses of your direct hit and bitten bullets.


Because you only suffered one direct hit and bit very few bullets, you qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!



Neat.

[bionicbadger]

You have reached the end!

Congratulations! You have made it to the end of this activity.

You took zero direct hits and you bit zero bullets. The average player of this activity to date takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets. 285314 people have so far undertaken this activity.

Click the link below for further analysis of your performance and to see if you've won an award.

Congratulations!

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

The fact that you progressed through this activity neither being hit nor biting a bullet suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and very well thought out.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, you avoided both these fates - and in doing so qualify for our highest award. A fine achievement!

How did you do compared to other people?

* 285314 people have completed this activity to date.
* You suffered zero direct hits and bit zero bullets.
* This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
* 7.63% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
* 45.81% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.

Easy

[hugh_da_man]

1 hit, no bullets.

[Avant_Garde]

1 direct hit and a medal of distinction. taking philosophy really helped

[FearSonic]

You have reached the end!

Congratulations! You have made it to the end of this activity.

You took zero direct hits and you bit zero bullets. The average player of this activity to date takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets. 285335 people have so far undertaken this activity.

Click the link below for further analysis of your performance and to see if you've won an award.

Congratulations!

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

The fact that you progressed through this activity neither being hit nor biting a bullet suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and very well thought out.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, you avoided both these fates - and in doing so qualify for our highest award. A fine achievement!

Awesome, no hits and the TPM medal of honour. I see I'm very logically sound.

[stevethewheel]

Hmm. I took a hit for this one, but somehow I can't wade through the explanation.

What is the inconsistency here? I had just answered that the rapist was justified in believing he was carrying out God's will (look, I don't think God told him to do that, but he thought so, so don't bash on me for that please)

You've just bitten a bullet!

You are consistent in applying the principle that it is justifiable to base one's beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction, regardless of the external evidence, or lack of it, for the truth or falsity this conviction. The problem is that it seems you have to accept that people might be justified in their belief that terrible things are right. You have agreed that the rapist is justified in believing that he carries out the will of God, and in an earlier answer you indicated that you think that God defines what is good and what is evil. Therefore, to be consistent, you must think the rapist is justified in believing that he acts morally when he acts on his inner conviction. Hence, you bite the bullet and justify the rapist.

EDIT - OK i figured it out. I bit a bullet. I didn't take a bullet. That means I had to agree to something distasteful in order to be consistent, which is true.

[cjpark]

no hits, no bullets Interesting quiz.

[bokep]

excellent quiz, brought up some points i never considered

[cheeseshredder]

You suffered zero direct hits and bit 1 bullet.

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

"Bitten Bullet 1

You answered "False" to Questions 10 and "True" to Question 14.

These answers generated the following response:

You've just bitten a bullet! You say that if there are no compelling arguments or evidence that show that God does not exist, then atheism is a matter of faith, not rationality. Therefore, it seems that you do not think that the mere absence of evidence for the existence of God is enough to justify believing that she does not exist. This view is also suggested by your earlier claim that it is not rational to believe that the Loch Ness monster does not exist even if, despite years of trying, no evidence has been presented to suggest that it does exist.

There is no logical inconsistency in your answers. But by denying that the absence of evidence, even where it has been sought, is enough to justify belief in the non-existence of things, you are required to countenance possibilities that most people would find bizarre. For example, do you really want to claim that it is not rationally justified to believe that intelligent aliens do not live on Mars?"

[manixc]

I got 2 direct hits

[deep]

Ridiculously easy. It doesn't take a philosophy background to ace this quiz...just some common sense, as per usual. I got the "Medal of Honour", which will henceforth be renamed the "Medal of Not Embarassing Thyself"

(Mind you, I have taken some philosophy courses....I just don't recall any questions that required me to think back to any of them. It's just logic, applied to godhood)

[Montague]

no hits, no bullets Interesting quiz.

same with me:

http://www.philosophersnet.com/cgi-b...avbullets=1.11