Kintaro

Us posting your questions doesn't mean we acquire your ability, heck you say you even use sometype of score system to try to identify. You don't need to pull those out.


Don't you think doing it through a proxy getting more-random-people to answer would ensure a fairer sample ?
We don't need your ability nor the desire to steal it. But if you say through the answers of the questions (of course, if they do not directly force someone to show their religious colors) alone you can do this, then you don't need to ask them directly: we feed you the people, their answers and you go right ahead and weed out the freethinkers.

And are they yes/no questions or do you need an elaborate answer for each ? Yes or no q's would make this more fun, and I'd be happy if you try even for 80 %.

EDIT : 50 posts in less than 2 hours, we're on a roll.

Bill Snedden

It seems that I too have a supernatural ability, and it seems to be even more incredible than the one xian claims to have.

I don't even need to determine and pose particular questions in order to work my wonders.

I need only read the first one or two posts made by an individual and I can immediately determine whether or not the poster is a loony.

Call it a gift....

Kintaro

The first 2 or any 2 ? I think it works both ways.

Mageth

Hey, Bill, I beat you to it with my supernatural bullshit detection a couple of pages ago.

xian

grrr....well i hate ruining my tests. i really didn't want to have to post it all, but due to overwhelming demand- tell you what, I'll comprimise. I'll give you a teaser by posting most of it.
the real secret, however is in how i SCORE it, which I will keep secret.here are the questions from the test


REQUIREMENT: The participant does not KNOW the PURPOSE or GOAL of this test. The first 8 quesitons are asked totally blind.

FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 1-7, ANSWER "AGREE" OR "DISAGREE"

1. evolution of life from non-life is a likely or certainly a fact of history
2. science and religion are inherently incompatible
3. I am familiar with and rapidly recognize the acronym "IPU"
4. I lack belief in an absolute moral law and absolute right and wrong.
5. I am inclined to think that advanced alien life exists somewhere in our universe beyond earth.
6. uncaused events regularly effect themselves
7. the 6 senses (if you count the vomeronasal organ- 5 if you do not) is all that is needed to know truth.

8. I think landoverbaptist.com is a funny website.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
c. I am not familiar enough with that website to answer

9. I agree with a womans right to choose to abort her foetus.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

10. It is inappropriate and/or unscientific to call a foetus a "human being"
A. TRUE
B. FALSE

11. Organized religion is responsible for the majority of human atrocities throughout history
A. I agree
B. I disagree
C. Other

12. When I die, I fully expect my consciousness and awareness to cease existing, so that the only existence I have after my death is merely the natural particles that once made up my
physical body- returned to the natural universe
A. True
B. False

13. The idea that the universe began to exist uncaused from an inflationary quantum fluctuation is reasonable and/or possible.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE


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once the first 13 questions are answered, the tester will then gather the answers and serve this portion of the exam:


14. THIS TEST IS WRITTEN BY A CHRISTIAN ATTEMPTING TO PSYCHOLOGICALLY ANALYZE ATHEISTS. IT IS IMPORTANT YOU KNOW THIS. IN THE SPACE BELOW WRITE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS TEST BUT DO NOT ADMIT WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE AN ATHEIST:

( ---blank space---- )


FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING, ANSWER "AGREE" OR "DISAGREE"

15. The Judeo-Christian God, as described in the King James Bible, could logically be called a tyrant, a maniac, and/or a murderer.
16. Faith and rational thought are inherently incompatible.
17. Atheists cannot be classified beyond simply "lack of belief in god(s)"
18. Xians are, for the most part, irrational individuals (if you do not know what a XIAN is, please answer "UNKNOWN - XIAN").
19. Humans are, ultimately, nothing more than a bag of mostly water- a proteinous, carbon-based mass of stimulated chemicals reacting to each other, having no objective value beyond what the individual or the society places on such masses. The bipedal anthropodic masses of organic matter called "homosapiens" have no special purpose beyond that which each bag of chemicals assigns to themselves of that which a societal group of chemical bags assign to them.

(extra space to comment on #19)

20. Please write your honest thoughts about these statements in the paragraph below- do not admit in any way that you may be an ATHEIST/AGNOSTIC AND/OR NATURALIST.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.



George Bush calling for a national day of prayer and thanking God while giving public addresses



Carl Sagan & SETI

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I am being very generous here....I have given you most of the test. what I will not give you is how I score it. Part of scoring is based on behavior of the answers- Part of scoring is based on the answers given. But I will give you this tiny chunk of my scoring criteria:


Answers to DISAGREE/AGREE questions that are anything EXCEPT "Disagree/Agree" in section 2 will be counted and scored as 1.5 AGREE. In section 2, the participant is finally given the purpose of the test. At this point, an atheist will be far more likely to argue questions and avoid answering them with a straightforward answer. Especially when given the immensely loaded question #19. A theist will usually vehemently disagree with #19 and answer DISAGREE with emphatic force, while the atheist, unwilling to write AGREE and at the same time feeling anger that some xian is trying to pin him, will either skip it or write up some kind of dodge about all the fallacies committed. He will then make angry or argumentative comments in the "comments section" especially after being informed the test is written by a Christian. This behavior alone (the irresitible urge to write up a complex answer and not simply write AGREE
or DISAGREE once he knows a xian is trying to pscyho-analyze him) is enough to empirically label the individual an atheist on its own with at least a 50% success rate. But to be as accurate as possible in labeling the atheist, the entire scoring method must be employed.


POST NOTE written specifically for the IIDB.ORG forum:

I, xian, just posted my test for this forum.
People who vehemently argue this post and this test in the responses below, can be likely classified as ATHEISTS with a high degree of probability. I do not need to know your philosophical affiliation. All I need to know is that if you respond with criticisms of my test, you are likely an ATHEIST, and I will classify you as such with a high degree of probability.


Is my ability supernatural? Regardless of its source of power, I can pin atheists to a degree MUCH HIGHER than 12%- which would be the expected number.

you don't have to like it...i only state my ability like it is

Yellum Notnef

Is the secret scoring system of yours where you use your supernatural powers? If not than I STILL see NOTHING supernatural about this.

xian

lol! you are a funny guy. ha! You take things too seriously....i think you missed the part about

"either I have supernatural abilities, or there is more things in common with professing atheists than simply "lack of belief in god(s)"

Calzaer

*LOL!*

Well, your supernatural powers aren't worth shit. DD is a theist. A confusing theist, but still a theist.

Theory disproven. Go home.

Yellum Notnef

1.) You have no supernatural powers.

2.) Your "test" is full of loaded questions about religious shit that we naturally would not agree with since we don't believe in gods.
Why don't you ask noreligious questions next time and see what you get.

3.)This is utterly ridiculous.

Spaz

lol, no shit, with that test anybody could tell who is or is not a theist 80% of the time. If you asked only a couple of those questions it might be harder, but with those it's almost a sure shot, they'd have to be a very liberal theist in order for you to miss them, and that's the other 20% of the time