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BatAttaK

BatAttaK

Tacoma, WA
OLD SKOOL

DEC 04, 2003 07:44 PM

Battleground God

Answer 17 questions on God and see how you fare. I was awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction!!
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# You suffered zero direct hits and bit 2 bullets.
# This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
# 46.00% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
# 7.28% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.


BatAttaK

mattthegoon

mattthegoon

Virginia Beach, VA
July 2002

DEC 04, 2003 07:54 PM

i tried...but it is a pretty boring quiz.

skull

Dante0

Dante0

Sandusky, OH
September 2003

DEC 04, 2003 08:14 PM

It's a quiz that makes you think about your perceptions. It was kind of cool.

Three direct hits, with zero bullets bitten. I got the TMP service medal.

crispy

crispy

NEWSWIRE

Philadelphia, PA

DEC 04, 2003 08:18 PM

One hit, two bitten ... Distinction.

SkottieDanger

SkottieDanger

Georgia
OLD SKOOL

DEC 04, 2003 08:19 PM

why is god a requisite to life?

RepairmanJack

RepairmanJack

Cleveland, OH
November 2003

DEC 04, 2003 08:41 PM

One hit, no bullets.

Kind of cool quiz--too many people are not consistent in their beliefs, this quiz will catch you if you are not.

viking99

viking99

Washington, DC
October 2003

DEC 04, 2003 08:47 PM

One hit, no bites. Yay Me. smile

ravendark

ravendark

New York, NY
February 2003

DEC 04, 2003 09:35 PM

I took no hits and bit three bullets, but I contested one of them and I'm waiting for a response. It was about whether or not God can be rationally discussed if He can do irrational things. Interesting time killer. Thanks for the heads up.

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Illinois, USA

DEC 04, 2003 09:37 PM

I bit two bullets and no hits. That whole site is really cool, I love the "games" on there.

ravendark

ravendark

New York, NY
February 2003

DEC 04, 2003 09:37 PM

And I don't see why I would get the third highest award taking no hits and biting three bullets, when someone who took hits and bit bullets would get the second highest award.

Longpastbedtime

Longpastbedtime

Ames, IA
March 2003

DEC 04, 2003 09:49 PM

No hits, no bullets. But I am a philosophy student, so I eat and breathe this stuff. And it's easy to be an agnostic and have internally consistent beliefs.

Sparagmos

Sparagmos

Canada
November 2003

DEC 05, 2003 12:16 AM

1 hit no bullets, a curious little exercise. Wish more people tried to think consistently.

Mrs_Misha

Mrs_Misha

Los Angeles, CA
September 2003

DEC 05, 2003 12:34 AM

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.
* 157383 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.
* 7.28% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
* 46.00% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm consistent in my beliefs!!!!!!

atmospherik1

atmospherik1

I'm lost
April 2003

DEC 05, 2003 12:37 AM

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

You took zero direct hits and you bit 2 bullets. The average player of this activity to date takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets. 157384 people have so far undertaken this activity.

Hmm. Interesting. I just based a lot of it on the concept of free will.

Al

Al

SUICIDEGIRL

Christmas Island

DEC 05, 2003 01:38 AM

I think some of those statements were ambiguous. Well, I suppose language is ambiguous.

I bit two bullets.

joyrider

joyrider

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

DEC 05, 2003 01:51 AM

no hits. three bullets.

i never claimed to be rational - just consistant.

Buddha

Buddha

East Hartford, CT
July 2003

DEC 05, 2003 03:20 AM

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.

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Mike11

Mike11

Titusville, FL
OLD SKOOL

DEC 05, 2003 03:31 AM

I did great until the last 5 questions. I guess thats where they start countering your answers. 4 hits one bullet. I am dead.

diggity

diggity

Carrboro, NC
March 2003

DEC 05, 2003 04:08 AM

I played this a while ago. I don't get the biting of bullets. It takes it out of the internally consistent sphere and drops you in the socially acceptable one. And then again I think the entire quiz is built on silliness. But I also always bite bullets. But that's fine with me. I imagine that most religious thinkers and definitely religious instigators would...

Ben

Ben

Marietta, MS
January 2003

DEC 05, 2003 04:51 AM

Bit two bullets, although I disagree with one of them... ah well...

Hermes

Hermes

United Kingdom
June 2003

DEC 05, 2003 06:19 AM

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

157475 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.
7.28% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
46.00% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.

Hmm the only thing I would say is that my answers were from a purely rational/logical standpoint without really giving expression to my deeper beliefs. The questions themselves kind of shape the response - for example some might argue that there is very good evidence that the Loch Ness Monster exists. In addition, it is possible to believe in a deity which is not ominpotent, omniscient or moral in any human sense of the word. Seems like it's designed to catch out Christian fundmentalists, but not much more than that.

unravled

unravled

Portland, OR
August 2003

DEC 05, 2003 07:04 AM

This is classic. When I clicked the link for this thread it said:

Battleground God

by Hermes




thrasymedes

thrasymedes

Australia
October 2003

DEC 05, 2003 07:26 AM

Two hits, one bullet. But I sort of expected it because, it said at the beginning, this quiz doesn't cater to those who don't believe in the supreme power of rationality.

grahf

grahf

New York, NY
September 2002

DEC 05, 2003 09:21 AM

If God exists she would have the freedom and power to create square circles and make 1 + 1 = 72.

True

You've just bitten a bullet!

In saying that God has the freedom and power to do that which is logically impossible (like creating square circles), you are saying that any discussion of God and ultimate reality cannot be constrained by basic principles of rationality. This would seem to make rational discourse about God impossible. If rational discourse about God is impossible, there is nothing rational we can say about God and nothing rational we can say to support our belief or disbelief in God. To reject rational constraints on religious discourse in this fashion requires accepting that religious convictions, including your religious convictions, are beyond any debate or rational discussion. This is to bite a bullet.


How is that biting a bullet? I thought that the whole point of god is that you're supposed to believe based on faith, not rationality. I've certainly never met anyone who had a rational reason for believing in god. I just thought it was a given that the two didn't mix.

AnAnthropoid

AnAnthropoid

Williamsburg, VA
December 2003

DEC 05, 2003 11:17 AM

crispy said:
One hit, two bitten ... Distinction.



me to biggrin

pretty cool quiz, but I wish that i could have debated with the guy or gal who made it, because when I bit the bullet twice I felt kind of justified... I didn't see a reason for that counting against me.

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