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15:11 / 18.11.06

Here is a quizfarm meme that yields puzzling results.

First off, what do they mean by "pseudo"? Clearly, they are using the word incorrectly, but what could they have intended?

Second off, here are my results:

What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You[, Qalyn]?
Miyamoto Musashi 67%
Elvis Presley 67%
Jesus Christ 67%
C.G. Jung 58%
Friedrich Nietzsche 58%
Hugh Hefner 58%
Sigmund Freud 58%
Dante Alighieri 50%
Stephen Hawking 50%
Steven Morrissey 33%
O.J. Simpson 25%
Charles Manson 25%
Adolf Hitler 25%
Mother Teresa 0%

When you get your result, I'd like you to compare it to mine in terms of sexiness; mine is clearly arranged in descending order from most sexy to least sexy. I doubt a sexier result is possible. However, I am troubled by the lack of women or people of color on this list, when, say, Malcolm X or Ayn Rand could very easily have fit in here. Possibly Malcolm X and Ayn Rand are sexier by themselves than any five others listed, Miyamoto Musashi excepted, but I don't resemble either of them much, and so their inclusion would've distorted the finding that I am, in fact, a sexy motherfucker. But that's not very scientific.

Discuss.

15:38 / 18.11.06

Is this topic too highbrow for the Convo?

15:49 / 18.11.06

You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche.

Well you're an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition. Don't let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche 83%
Stephen Hawking 75%
Miyamoto Musashi67%
Jesus Christ67%
C.G. Jung67%
Dante Alighieri 58%
Hugh Hefner58%
Elvis Presley 50%
Steven Morrissey50%
Adolf Hitler 42%
Mother Teresa 33%
Sigmund Freud 33%
Charles Manson 33%
O.J. Simpson 17%

I am mostly into teh nihilist physics.

15:51 / 18.11.06

You , iconoplast,scored as C.G. Jung.

C.G. Jung 92%
Miyamoto Musashi 83%
Dante Alighieri 67%
Stephen Hawking 58%
Mother Teresa 58%
Adolf Hitler 58%
Steven Morrissey 58%
Elvis Presley 50%
Friedrich Nietzsche 50%
Hugh Hefner 42%
Jesus Christ 42%
Sigmund Freud 42%
Charles Manson 25%
O.J. Simpson 25%

Analysis to follow.

16:05 / 18.11.06

You scored as Elvis Presley.

The United States has never been a democracy but actually a monarchy...with it's citizens bowing to one throne. Born in Tupelo, you are the King. You have a tendency to be promiscuous, you'll probably die of a drug overdose or be abducted by aliens, and you're also responsible for the ousting of Jesus/Yahweh from the throne of gold.

Elvis Presley 83%
Adolf Hitler 67%
Friedrich Nietzsche 67%
Steven Morrissey 67%
Miyamoto Musashi 58%
Dante Alighieri 50%
Hugh Hefner 42%
Sigmund Freud 42%
C.G. Jung 42%
Jesus Christ 42%
Stephen Hawking 33%
O.J. Simpson 17%
Mother Teresa 17%
Charles Manson 17%

This stupid test discriminates against atheists and Klingons. I am not Hitler.

16:19 / 18.11.06

Is it discriminating against you by comparing you to Hitler?

16:34 / 18.11.06

I suggest that we use the results of this quiz to set up a non-hierarchical caste structure within Barbelith's existing relational dynamic. We can determine, within any conflict or discussion, whether we are interacting in the role of, say, Elvis, or perhaps Mother Teresa. We will know how apropos that role is to us, from having taken the quiz. We can appeal to the master-practitioner of that role for advice, conflict resolution, etc. I would expect unusual new relationships to form, and a whole new set of behaviors on the part of each participant.

16:46 / 18.11.06

I am definately not Hitler.

C.G. Jung100%Dante Alighieri83%Friedrich Nietzsche83%Elvis Presley67%Stephen Hawking67%Mother Teresa50%Jesus Christ50%Miyamoto Musashi33%Sigmund Freud33%Hugh Hefner33%O.J. Simpson25%Steven Morrissey25%Charles Manson25%Adolf Hitler0%What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?created with QuizFarm.com

Whisky Priestess

12:22 / 19.11.06

I am the most Nietzschest! Will all other Nietzsches please consult me before posting anything in character? Thank you.

Also, who the hell is Miyamoto Musashi?

Friedrich Nietzsche 92%
C.G. Jung 83%
Dante Alighieri 75% (quite pleased by this one)
Elvis Presley 75%
Miyamoto Musashi 58%
Steven Morrissey 50%
Jesus Christ 50%
Stephen Hawking 42%
Hugh Hefner 42%
Adolf Hitler 33%
Sigmund Freud 25%
O.J. Simpson 17%
Charles Manson 8%
Mother Teresa 8%

16:00 / 19.11.06

I have a lot less Jesus than I thought.

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You scored as Dante Alighieri. According to you most of humanity will spend at least some of their afterlife in hell. You have a high likelihood of being exiled, but anyone as bloody fucking romantic as you deserves what they get. You have an exceptional moral code, overshadowed by the fact that you yourself cannot uphold it.

Your existence bears a definite irony, although of fairly Christian morality, many pagans, satanists, communists, and intellectuals admire you and your works for all the wrong reasons.

Also, the brighest star in your sky is never going to be your lover...

It takes a lot of grief to be the cartographer of hell.

C.G. Jung = 100%
Dante Alighieri = 100%
Miyamoto Musashi = 83%
Elvis Presley = 83%
Friedrich Nietzsche = 75%
Stephen Hawking = 67%
Mother Teresa = 58%
Charles Manson = 33%
Adolf Hitler = 33%
Sigmund Freud = 33%
Steven Morrissey = 33%
O.J. Simpson = 17%
Hugh Hefner = 17%
Jesus Christ = 0%

16:58 / 19.11.06

Miyamoto Musashi is a legendary swordmaster and samurai who wrote the Book of Five Rings. He's in the Sun Tzu-Yojimbo bandwidth of popular culture. Badassed, perfect, scholar, soldier, mystic, martial artist. The book was translated as an executive manual in the late 80s, when all the suit-and-tie types started thinking of themselves as ronin.

17:20 / 19.11.06

Hohoho, that was a close one

You scored as C.G. Jung.

You are more of a spiritualist than would be immediately apparent. Some of your notions are questioned by the cynical, but deep down you know the human consciousness is more than the flesh and tissue can account for. You tend to take a scientific observationist look on matters the average person wouldn't even begin to analyze. You personally are responsible for most of the ideas that are floating around in modern psychologist's/psychic's paltry little skulls. On the down side, you tend to be associated with that asshole Freud.

83% C.G. Jung
67% Adolf Hitler
50% Dante Alighieri
50% Steven Morrissey

17:53 / 19.11.06

Friedrich Nietzsche 100%
Charles Manson 58%
C.G. Jung 58%
Steven Morrissey 58%
Elvis Presley 42%
Miyamoto Musashi 42%
Dante Alighieri 42%

17:55 / 19.11.06

In your face, Whisk!

17:56 / 19.11.06

Oh, snap!

18:06 / 19.11.06

Miyamoto Musashi 75%
Dante Alighieri 67%
Friedrich Nietzsche 67%
C.G. Jung 58%
Steven Morrissey 58%
Jesus Christ 50%
Stephen Hawking 50%
Elvis Presley 42%
O.J. Simpson 33%
Charles Manson 33%
Mother Teresa 33%
Hugh Hefner 25%
Sigmund Freud 17%
Adolf Hitler 0%

I am Musashiest. Well-balanced, that - pleasingly no Hitlerness.

18:14 / 19.11.06

The sexiest order possible is: Miyamoto Musashi Elvis Presley
C.G. Jung Steven Morrissey Jesus Christ Hugh Hefner Charles Manson Dante Alighieri O.J. Simpson Stephen Hawking Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud Adolf Hitler Mother Teresa

Hard to argue with Qalyn, though - he does have the sexiest so far.

18:20 / 19.11.06

No fucking way is Morrissey that high on the list. Sorry, you aging goths, but it's just not true.

18:50 / 19.11.06

Wow! I just noticed, monk is the Boss of both Dante and Jung! That's pretty Matrix, dude.

19:00 / 19.11.06

I've had some time to think, and perhaps I realised that a sexier series than your own is not even conceivable.

19:05 / 19.11.06

You scored as Miyamoto Musashi.
You're considered a sword saint, whatever the fuck that is. You don't give two hoots what weapon or tact people come at you with, as your solution is a steady grip on a sharp blade and it tends to work.
You're never going to be defeated in battle, but you are going to die of Cancer.

top 3:
Miyamoto Musashi 92%
Friedrich Nietzsche 75%
C.G. Jung 67%

it says i'm more hitler than jesus, incidentally.
well, a sword saint prolly would be, wouldn't he?

19:15 / 19.11.06

Musashi created and perfected a two-sword kenjutsu technique called niten'ichi ("two heavens as one") or nitōichi ("two swords as one") or "Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu" (A Kongen Buddhist Sutra refers to the two heavens as the two guardians of Buddha).
In this technique, the swordsman uses both a large sword, and a "companion sword" at the same time, such as a katana and wakizashi.

...

"When I apply the principle of strategy to the ways of different arts and crafts, I no longer have need for a teacher in any domain."

musashi.
musashi's art, including a self portrait.
misashi kicking a whale's ass.

i can almost dig whaling if it's one on one, no boats or projectile weapons allowed.

20:58 / 19.11.06

You know that Musashi, drunk, rowed up to an island to undertake a duel and used a snapped off half oar to kill his armed opponent with a single blow? While drunk? I am 67% badass Samurai, and 83% Nietzhsceshesczhehe, and 75% drunk! Yay!

Maybe 85% drunk...

22:28 / 19.11.06

Oh, and...

You scored as Miyamoto Musashi.

You're considered a sword saint, whatever the fuck that is. You don't give two hoots what weapon or tact people come at you with, as your solution is a steady grip on a sharp blade and it tends to work. You're never going to be defeated in battle, but you are going to die of Cancer

C.G. Jung83%Miyamoto Musashi83%Steven Morrissey75%Dante Alighieri67%Stephen Hawking58%Mother Teresa58%Friedrich Nietzsche58%Hugh Hefner50%Jesus Christ42%Sigmund Freud42%Adolf Hitler33%Charles Manson33%Elvis Presley25%O.J. Simpson8%What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?created with QuizFarm.com

I had a tie-breaker based on my height and whether I'd describe the world based on polarities. I chose height.

Oh, and also, I once saw a band called Elvis Hitler. They had a song called "It's a Long Way From Berlin to Memphis (Riding on that Long Black Train)."

Indeed. I'm glad about O.J. at the bottom. He's got a new book coming out, you know.

23:52 / 19.11.06

You scored as Dante Alighieri. According to you most of humanity will spend at least some of their afterlife in hell. You have a high likelihood of being exiled, but anyone as bloody fucking romantic as you deserves what they get. You have an exceptional moral code, overshadowed by the fact that you yourself cannot uphold it.

Your existence bears a definite irony, although of fairly Christian morality, many pagans, satanists, communists, and intellectuals admire you and your works for all the wrong reasons.

Also, the brighest star in your sky is never going to be your lover...

It takes a lot of grief to be the cartographer of hell.Dante Alighieri83%Miyamoto Musashi58%Stephen Hawking58%Sigmund Freud58%Adolf Hitler58%Steven Morrissey58%C.G. Jung50%Mother Teresa42%Jesus Christ42%Friedrich Nietzsche33%Charles Manson25%O.J. Simpson17%Hugh Hefner8%Elvis Presley8%What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?created with QuizFarm.com

so there

00:36 / 20.11.06

There doesn't seem to be a lot of results. It could use a few more dozen for variety and entertainment.

I'm 100% Dante for some reason...