Battleground God

[Ferre]

The Philosopher's Magazine has this (a few actually) game online to test your intellectual and philosophical skills, like this one;


Battleground God

Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?

In this activity you’ll be asked a series of 17 questions about God and religion. In each case, apart from Question 1, you need to answer True or False. The aim of the activity is not to judge whether these answers are correct or not. Our battleground is that of rational consistency. This means to get across without taking any hits, you’ll need to answer in a way which is rationally consistent. What this means is you need to avoid choosing answers which contradict each other. If you answer in a way which is rationally consistent but which has strange or unpalatable implications, you’ll be forced to bite a bullet.

You can find it here;

Battleground God (http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm)

My results were;

Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!

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

The fact that you progressed through this activity being hit only once and biting no bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are well thought out and almost entirely internally consistent.

The direct hit you suffered occurred because one set of your answers implied a logical contradiction. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analysis of your direct hit. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, this did not occur which means that despite the direct hit you qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

How did you do compared to other people?

* 455386 people have completed this activity to date.
* You suffered 1 direct hit and bit zero bullets.
* This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.10 bullets.
* 45.73% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
* 7.80% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.

http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/images/god_medal2.jpg

It's a tricky little test, but fun, and you can get hit and bite bullets. :sqlaugh:

[krisma5]

This is what I got too...

Battleground Analysis
Congratulations!

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.
The fact that you progressed through this activity without being hit and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and well thought out.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. The bitten bullets occurred because you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, because you bit only two bullets and avoided direct hits completely you still qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

How did you do compared to other people?

* 455737 people have completed this activity to date.
* 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 1.10 bullets.
* 45.74% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
* 7.80% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.

[ewomack]

We're apparently a very similar group here...

Battleground Analysis
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.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. You would have bitten bullets had you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, you avoided both these fates - and in doing so qualify for our highest award. A fine achievement!

* 456073 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 1.10 bullets.
* 7.80% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
* 45.73% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.

[Strong]

You suffered 1 direct hit and bit 1 bullet.

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction!

It seems I'm pretty average.