I scored 100% of course. Since it's *my* reality I cannot conceive of having anything less than a perfect score. How anyone chooses to interpret the results of my quiz is subject to his or her reality. Sincerely, raunchydog.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > Quiz To Determine How Sincere You Are About Knowing Reality > > Directions: Read each statement carefully. Decide whether you Strongly Agree > (SA), Agree (A), Strongly Disagree (SD), or Disagree (D). > > Score 4 for the maximally desired answer, which will always be either SA or > SD. Score 2 for the desired answer, which will always be A or D. Score 0 for > the undesired answer, Score -1 for the maximally undesirable answer. Perfect > score = 100. There are 25 questions. > > I understand more or less how I came to my present view of reality. > > I can't conceive of understanding or experiencing reality in any other way > than I do. > > When I sense some challenge to my view of reality (or any given issue) I > harden and hunker down; it doesn't matter at that point whether I am right or > wrong; I must preserve the sense of my own sense of integrity: I must defend > myself. > > I have had the experience of realizing I was wrong about something, and have > enjoyed surrendering to a different truth than I started out believing. > > I feel I am a pretty good judge of the sincerity or insincerity of someone > who takes a point of view opposed to my own. > > I believe it is possible to be a good person and yet have a view of reality > or even any important issue which is opposed to my own point of view. > > I would like to have a greater awareness of all the reality that there is to > know. > > I am living a life that is not ignoring the fact that I know I must die > someday. > > I wish I could be in an actual state of grace all the time, supposing this > were possible. > > I am willing to brave my fears and my own conditioning in order to get a > connection with reality which will ask some form of sacrifice of my familiar > way of seeing things, and my own vanity. > > I am interested in having an experience of my own essential innocence and > sincerity--at least this is a desideratum I seek. > > I consider a clear conscience to be a good thing. It is something I wish to > possess in my own life. > > When I am in the presence of an intuition of a greater or higher reality I > tend to contract rather than expand. > > I have done my best to find the purpose of life, even the purpose of my own > life. > > I like learning new things about myself; I am in the quest of greater > self-knowledge all the time. > > I feel motivated in some sense to seek the truth even if that truth is > inconvenient to me, to my assumed beliefs and predilections. > > I think I am a pretty good judge of the character of other human beings. > > I feel that my life has been governed by a fate which did not take into > account my own desire or free will. I feel I am not essentially responsible > for where I have ended up in my life. > > I am willing to have a change of heart about someone should they indicate > some willingness to reach out to me. > > My enemies, they are fixed for all-time for me. I don't see reconciliation or > negotiation. I will fight to the end, never giving any quarter--no matter > what. > > I would rather be who I am than to be any other person who has ever lived. > > I am willing to see the truth of when irony is directed towards me. > > I feel I want what is the most real experience that any human being can have > in the universe. > > I feel the truth about something always has a better potential for being > useful to me than some falsification of that same truth. > > I am living a life so as to deserve to be happy when I die. >