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
75%
Modernist
56%
Materialist
56%
Postmodernist
38%
Cultural Creative
38%
Romanticist
13%
Fundamentalist
13%
Idealist
0%
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Tom Cruise is a superb actor. Forget Top Gun and all the other pretty boy stuff. In Collateral late last year, and in Magnolia in 1999, he shone.
However, like all those speaking outside of their area of expertise (such as: rock stars on politics and Charles Kennedy on any subject you care to name), Cruise [...]
In recent weeks the fair village of Black Triangle has been attacked by flyposters. Instead of the occassional notice posted by a visitor, there have been posters informing passers by about various sordid subjects such as: Black Jack, Poker, diet pills, cheap loans, and various solutions to supposed sexual inadaquacies. Are there really people [...]
One of the more interesting aspects of medical journals, and perhaps science journals in general, is that despite being supposed bastions of rationality and concerned with the application of evidence they are not averse to a bit of “spinning” themselves. News stories about medical papers do not create themselves. Embargoed press releases about are [...]
Go and read my friend’s attempt to indoctrinate his two four year-old twin girls with the original Star Wars.
Well, I mentioned it here, and I mentioned it here.
Now someone has found it.
One of the most notorious murder weapons in modern history, the ice-pick that killed Leon Trotsky, appears to have been found, 65 years after it was apparently stolen from the Mexican police.
Via The Virtual Stoa.
Just before Christmas The Times profiled a Russian bio-energy healer called Alla Svirinskaya, who claimed that “Each organ has its own frequency and vibration. If an organ is inflamed, my hands will register extreme changes of temperature.†Peddling this nonsense makes good business sense – she attracts clientele including the fashion designer Donna Karan, the [...]
MORE than 600 children who were mistakenly diagnosed with epilepsy are in line for a multimillion-pound payout after a judge yesterday agreed a compensation package for families.
The court was told that the children were reduced to “zombies†by a debilitating cocktail of drugs after Andrew Holton, a doctor, wrongly declared them epileptic.
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Dr Holton, 53, wrongly [...]
Waldo the pill-dispensing robot apparently went berserk this past week at UCSF Medical Center, sending a doctor and patient running for cover.
Whacked-out Waldo is one of three battery-operated, rolling robots that dispense pills at the hospital. The other two are named Elvis and Lisa Marie.
All three are about the size of a large [...]