From: Osher Doctorow (osher@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 16:36:21 MDT
From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Sunday July 7, 2002 3:42PM
I like Samantha's survey percents. The only person whom I have ever met
who seriously believes in Ayn Rand is an extroverted non-knowledge-oriented
person with a tendency for non-standard religious dogmatism (cults in other
words). Does that have anything to do with the name extropians, or is it a
coincidence?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Ethical Philosophy test
> Sehkenenra wrote:
> > Who's your ethical philosopher?
> > http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/
> >
> >
> > Let's see... I came out 100% Nietzsche... 72% Hobbes... 68% Cynic... 67%
> > Sartre... 66% Stoic.... 63% Hume... 56% Spinoza... suprisingly, only
> > 43% Rand. (Then again, I've still never been able to bring myself to
> > read /Atlas Shrugged /from cover to cover...)
> >
> > -Nicq MacDonald
>
> Mine were Aquinas - 100%, Aristotle - 97%, Spinoza - 72%,
> Augustine - 68%, Ockham - 67%. Only 20% Rand despite having
> read Atlas Shrugged at least 15 times. :-) The test makes much
> of few answers though as I marked most of them as being
> displeased with the wording of all of the choices.
>
> - samantha
>
>
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