Politics of athiests.

Xluna

I created a similiar thread in the Christianity forum. I'd like to compare the socio-economic views of athiests and Christians. This test is the political compass map. It's pretty good.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

hiorta

According to this, i'm a close neighbour of the Dalai Lama.

iUseVi

hiorta wrote: »

According to this, i'm a close neighbour of the Dalai Lama.

Same.

lynski

hi neighbour! i am a little closer to Mandela, but pretty much where i would have put myself

The Mad Hatter

Ah, the political compass. If I recall correctly (not doing it again), I appear somewhere towards the bottom left. But then it seems so do most Europeans - it's very US-centric.

Permabear

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amacachi

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Ah, the political compass. If I recall correctly (not doing it again), I appear somewhere towards the bottom left. But then it seems so do most Europeans - it's very US-centric.

Just because it's what everyone is doesn't mean it's the centre. So the Political Compass is fairly accurate, it's just that it seems a lot of leftie positions have become the default in Europe.

Here's mine anyway.

iUseVi

This is for the UK, but it concerns me still:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/extremeright

Seems all parties are shifting up and to the right in general. Not sure how reliable the test is though.

rainbow kirby

Bottom left for me, tree-hugging hippy territory.

Dinner

A few squares to the right of the Dalai Lama.

ShooterSF

donegalfella wrote: »

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Same as, not many of us successful if the examples are anything to go by

Galvasean

Somewhere between Gandhi and Mandela. Cool.

Xluna

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

Yay I'm a commie.

Drakmord

Got Economic Left/Right: 0.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.36

I'm just in the square without anyone in it.
Very close to the exact centre.
Not sure what that means.

checkyabadself

I was maybe a square down and a square right from the Dalai Lama.

ColmDawson

I'm pretty much where the Dalai Lama is on the graph below.

keane2097

Alongside the Dalai Lama as well.

Daftendirekt

Here's me.

It seems fairly accurate, although I noticed many of the questions seem to be kind of left-biased.

It'd be interesting to see the reasoning behind some of the questions too, to see how they contribute to the result.

BigAl81

Dinner wrote: »

A few squares to the right of the Dalai Lama.

Ditto!

Xluna

keane2097 wrote: »

Alongside the Dalai Lama as well.

I was tempted to create a version of this in the Buddhist forum but the results would have been a bit predicatble.

cypharius

That's a good test, but some of the questions could be tweeked a little, and a "I have no opinion" option would be nice, apperently I'm just as left as Gandhi, and more of a libertarian.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kstH-8jwa80

this dalai lama?

cypharius

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kstH-8jwa80

this dalai lama?

WOAH!

That is the most interesting and unexpected video I have ever seen...

iUseVi

^^^

LOL yeah well I differ from the Dalai Lama in many respects, but you have to remember that you can answer some questions in a completely opposite manner and end up with the exact same score.

That's what happens when you reduce a person's "political view" down to two numbers, doesn't give you all the facts. :P

pinksoir

cypharius wrote: »

WOAH!

That is the most interesting and unexpected video I have ever seen...

Not really. The guy is an abstinate monk. Why would you think he'd have progressive views on sexuality?

DeBunny

Another Dalai Lama Neighboureeno. Thought I'd be closer to the centre.
Seems to be a lot of atheists close to the most religious person on the chart. Although judging by the above video he'd have a much different score if he actually took the test himself.

Valmont

Interesting that there are quite a few in the bottom left.

Risteard

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05

Karl Hungus

GLaDOS

Politics bore me so very much

sonicthebadger*

I always thought I was a lot more centrist than that. Oh well, Bottom left for me, more left than the Dalai Lama and more of an Anarchist than Mandela!
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Can anyone fix this for me?

5uspect

Pinko commie godless Guardian reading liberal for me.

gonnaplayrugby

near friedman(i do economics in school and i know him, hes a very famous economist btw)

lower down than the dalai lama so more libertarian but about the same degree of left/right

Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

PeterIanStaker

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

Not entirely sure what that makes me. I would be up for capital punishment for the likes of paedophiles etc.

Wacker

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74

I knew I'd be more of a centrist than most of my brethren here.

strobe

Karl Hungus wrote: »

:eek: We meet again, Mrs Thatcher...

strobe

Here mine.
Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38


http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.00&soc=-7.38

Which I guess makes me a commie anarchist nutter.

Zillah

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I just don't understand how this can happen. You think the state should have an interest in what happens in people's bedrooms? Multi-national corporations can be trusted to look after the environment and the needs of the people?

I just can't imagine the answers one would need to give to get a result like that.

Keith186

Hmmm... Seem to be pretty similar to most.

Karl Hungus

Zillah wrote: »

I just don't understand how this can happen. You think the state should have an interest in what happens in people's bedrooms? Multi-national corporations can be trusted to look after the environment and the needs of the people?

I just can't imagine the answers one would need to give to get a result like that.

Yeah, I am Hitler, Stalin, Thatcher and General Zod all rolled into one terrible grinning package. :pac:

Seriously though, this came up on After Hours before, and I didn't think much of the questions being asked in the test, just how US-politics related it is, and I don't think that such a compass is very accurate anyway, so I just answered in a farcical manner and posted the results as my own little protest. I think that considering the narrow spectrum of questions that the position on the compass I've gotten from such mock answers would be about as accurate to my true political leanings as it would if I had answered honestly and got the same left/libertarian leaning as everyone else; not that accurate at all.

LostinKildare

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Economic Left/Right: 8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

alot of those questions are silly

whatdoicare

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51

Interestink....:D

Coriolanus

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26

Dades

ChocolateSauce

I've done this test a million times and it always puts me in the middle of the bottom left square; if I placed myself, I'd be extreme-south just-left-of-centre.

eoin5

In sig, I'm big on social freedoms

Dubhghaillix

Wooh, Dalai Lama terretory!

cavedave

A bit right wing very libertarian. which puts me a country mile from all the political parties here. And makes me one of the few people here who isnt very like a buddhist religious leader.

DapperGent

Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44