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Thread: How Evil Are You?
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lilBuddha
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A quiz from the BBC.
I am Infrequently Vile.
This might inform as to the accuracy of the test, depending on how you view the accuracy of that assessment.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Shockingly saintly
Do you ever find yourself walking on water? Because you are shockingly saintly. You are a chink of light in a dark world.
Good grief. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I've not looked at the the quiz yet but from those two judgements I already have little faith in it!
![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Another Infrequently Vile here - obviously I have to try harder on my vileness rating.
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Fancy a break in South India?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Another "Infrequently vile" which is no surprise.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Shockingly Saintly. Proof that these sort of quizzes are rubbish.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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Proof again of the inaccuracy of such quizzes.
I got "infrequently vile".
Everyone knows I was supposed to get "shockingly saintly" ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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I still feel evil as I got a while ago by a roman bike and it came down the road. So I have to eat Naproxen to help me
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L'organist
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Infrequently Vile. Not sure all of my family would agree with that! Reassuraingly low on the psychopathy - phew!
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Another Infrequently Vile, highest on Macchiavellianism. Most of which is used in <cough> missionary service.*
If they only know what I would have been were I NOT a Christian... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
* Mostly when dealing with pompous bureaucrats on behalf of refugees
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I am sensing a demographic.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Adeodatus
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I managed to portray myself as Infrequently Vile, relatively high on Machiavellianism, relatively low on Psychopathy.
Mission accomplished ...
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"What is broken, repair with gold."
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The Rogue
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Infrequently vile for me as well. I prefer the sound of moderately nefarious.
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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jacobsen
seeker
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Infrequently vile. Mediumly machiavellian and fairly low on narcissism and psychopathy.
Little do they know.....
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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Infrequently Vile, rock bottom on the Machiavellian thing but a bit of the narcissistic, psychopath. Why is sex with strangers a bad thing?
I'm just glad it didn't register my building temper tamper over the hard-to-move slider.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
Why is sex with strangers a bad thing
Yeah, quite. Want a screw?
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Blog
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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As LC pointed out, those of us who have to deal with shit bosses, officious bureaucrats, or The System are probably going to be a bit Machiavellian. Perfectly saintly and humble folk otherwise, but, in the face of The Man...hey, the system's best conquered with patience, fortitude, and a bulldozer.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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St. Gwladys
Shipmate
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Another "infrequently vile"
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Piglet
Islander
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This is getting boring - I'm "infrequently vile" as well.
Strange that - I wasn't aware of ever being vile ...
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I am sensing a demographic.
But what demographic?
Just honest enough to register as less than saintly or just devious enough to register higher than thoroughly vile?
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Originally posted by Ariston:
As LC pointed out, those of us who have to deal with shit bosses, officious bureaucrats, or The System are probably going to be a bit Machiavellian. Perfectly saintly and humble folk otherwise, but, in the face of The Man...hey, the system's best conquered with patience, fortitude, and a bulldozer.
Ah, but if you were perfectly saintly, the bulldozer would never occur to you.
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I am sensing a demographic.
But what demographic?
Just honest enough to register as less than saintly or just devious enough to register higher than thoroughly vile?
I'm inclined to call it "Shippy" and leave it at that. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Another Infrequently vile, low on psychopathy, higher on Machiavellianism.
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The5thMary
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Shockingly Saintly.
Well, I'm trying to do the right things and work on overcoming my contempt/impatience of people but saintly?
Umm, not so much.
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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The5thMary
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I'm just glad it didn't register my building temper tamper over the hard-to-move slider.
Oh, good! I thought I was the only one who couldn't move that damn thing! Did you notice it wouldn't let you move the slider in small increments? That seems as though the quiz authors wanted the answers to lack any nuances.
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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pjl
Shipmate
# 16929
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Moderately nefarious.....OK?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Why is sex with strangers a bad thing
Yeah, quite. Want a screw?
The quiz doesn't imply it necessarily is. However, my suspicion is that the reasoning behind the question is that people who put themselves first are less likely to ask whether a casual hookup is wise for the other person.
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Might as well ask the bloody cat.
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Dafyd
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
hey, the system's best conquered with patience, fortitude, and a bulldozer.
Ah, but if you were perfectly saintly, the bulldozer would never occur to you.
Have you read about some of the saints? I reckon Bernard of Clairvaux sympathises with the nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure approach.
As the meme has it, If someone asks you What Would Jesus Do, remember that one of the options is overthrowing tables and chasing out the moneychangers with a whip.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Why is sex with strangers a bad thing
Yeah, quite. Want a screw?
The quiz doesn't imply it necessarily is. However, my suspicion is that the reasoning behind the question is that people who put themselves first are less likely to ask whether a casual hookup is wise for the other person.
I always considered it a kindness.
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roybart
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Infrequently vile, with most of the vileness coming from Machiavellianism rather than Narcissism or Psychopathology. That is a relief to me, though I don't know why.
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"The consolations of the imaginary are not imaginary consolations."
-- Roger Scruton
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Leaf
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Slightly disappointed to discover that I am only Infrequently Vile.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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quote:
Originally posted by roybart:
Infrequently vile, with most of the vileness coming from Machiavellianism rather than Narcissism or Psychopathology. That is a relief to me, though I don't know why.
Because you feel it is better to be scheming for other peoples downfall than simply too absorbed to notice, or nursing such a hatred of humankind you don't care who is hurt?
(says the shocking saintly person who is therefore hiding his underlying sociopathology very well)
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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One does wonder about any test that requires self-assessment. True psychopaths think everything they do is justified. "Those people needed killing!" While a tendency to feel a whole lot of guilt over very small things is a common trait among the humble saints. Wonder how St. Augustine would do on this?
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Based on the sampling of the Ship so far, I suspect Augustine would get an "Infrequently Vile."
I guess the category is named that way because the focus is on evil. "Infrequently vile" pretty much means "Often decent."
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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Originally posted by Twilight:
One does wonder about any test that requires self-assessment. True psychopaths think everything they do is justified. "Those people needed killing!" While a tendency to feel a whole lot of guilt over very small things is a common trait among the humble saints. Wonder how St. Augustine would do on this?
I think we also generalise. As a whole, I do try to be kind and generous to others, considering their needs. I do tend to judge most people positively as a starting point.
There are always the exceptions, of course, and for the good of all, these people need to die, slowly, painfully and without hope of mercy. But these are not the ones I am thinking about when filling in a survey - it is the majority.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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See that's just the opposite of how I took the test. If I could think of a single incident of being mean to someone then that was reflected on the test, putting that slider above the middle.
Actually, I think I know this bunch of shippies fairly well and compared with the general population I think you're all pretty saintly. Just think of the angst that came out in a thread we had about guilt over being "rich."
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jacobsen
seeker
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I wouldn't mind some of that angst. It would be a pleasant change from the angst of wondering how I'm going to survive financially in ten years' time.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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Infrequently vile. Today, anyway.
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In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill)
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Infrequently vile. Highest on Machiavellianism, which I think is normal for any intelligent person who has spent much time working in bureaucratic systems.
The whole thing is loosely based on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which is based on empirical observations of psychopaths (which include the fact that they tend to have a lot of sex with strangers--not that this in itself makes you a psychopath, it might just mean you're extraordinarily attractive and have trouble saying no because you don't want to hurt people's feelings).
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by pjl:
Moderately nefarious.....OK?
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How did you get in?!
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I answered on behalf of my alter ego and came out as Decidedly Dastardly but scored a bit low on Psychopathy - I'll get even with them for that one!
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I answered on behalf of my alter ego and came out as Decidedly Dastardly but scored a bit low on Psychopathy - I'll get even with them for that one!
I don't have alter egos, I have competing egos. I let a different one take the test this time and also got Decidedly Dastardly. Near the top on Machiavellianism and Narcissism and slightly above middle on Psychopathy. If I lie a bit, I can ring the bell on all three.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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