--- 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.
Not really. > > I can't conceive of understanding or experiencing reality in any other way than I do. > Not sure. > 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. > Not really. > 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. > Pretty sure this has happened. > 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. > Not really. > 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. > What is a good person and what is my point of view? > I would like to have a greater awareness of all the reality that there is to know. > Not sure if I am ready because reality is what? > I am living a life that is not ignoring the fact that I know I must die someday. > When? > I wish I could be in an actual state of grace all the time, supposing this were possible. > If there is only a possibility then a wish is all I can have. > 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. > Alive, I thrive. > I am interested in having an experience of my own essential innocence and sincerity--at least this is a desideratum I seek. > Then I am asking for new, everyday. > I consider a clear conscience to be a good thing. It is something I wish to possess in my own life. > A seeker looks to find a clear conscience. > When I am in the presence of an intuition of a greater or higher reality I tend to contract rather than expand. > Depends which motion most benefits the view. > I have done my best to find the purpose of life, even the purpose of my own life. > This could depend on circumstance, from time to time as to whether one is in observing or surviving, but both can be done simultaneous, I believe . > I like learning new things about myself; I am in the quest of greater self-knowledge all the time. > I just do what needs to be done and that may include being driven to what is perceived as less suffering. > I feel motivated in some sense to seek the truth even if that truth is inconvenient to me, to my assumed beliefs and predilections. > SA > I think I am a pretty good judge of the character of other human beings. > Nope, been wrong before, will be wrong again. Been correct before will be correct again. > 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. > Just thrown to the lions with a few laughs along the way, and a right eye twitch present at certain occasions, hoping for that left eye twitch. > I am willing to have a change of heart about someone should they indicate some willingness to reach out to me. > This I have to say can happen with most. I may have one or two exceptions. depending on timing of events and place. > 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 keep falling for their tricks. > I would rather be who I am than to be any other person who has ever lived. > Not sure. I do feel comfortable in these walls. > I am willing to see the truth of when irony is directed towards me. > I think I do! Does not mean it is so. > I feel I want what is the most real experience that any human being can have in the universe. > Sex? > I feel the truth about something always has a better potential for being useful to me than some falsification of that same truth. > Truth is easier. It only hurts when it takes too long to figure it out. > I am living a life so as to deserve to be happy when I die. > If that is a way to go, so be it.
