The most arrogant bull shit I've ever seen

[FVZA_Colonel]

Taken from Transtopia, here is their "quiz" on how enlightened you are: http://www.transtopia.org/quiz.html

Here's what I got:
MEMETIC SHOCK LEVEL 0 (0-4): seriously sub-par. Cocytus, the deepest level of (ideological) Hell where the truly ignorant, (borderline) insane, and hopelessly superstitious spend their days in total darkness and misery. Terrible bloody show


I really have to agree more with Reid "Frolixo" Paskiewicz of SomethingAwful.com when he writes that-

Transtopia (thanks Tyler) - Do you consider yourself better than the flock of sheep around you, and masturbate over your SAT and IQ scores daily? Are you pretentious and consider yourself an evolutionary step beyond the barbarians that are running this world? Are you a fan of the original Lost in Space? If yes to all these questions, Transtopia is the site for you:

Eritis sicut dii -- you shall be as gods. It's time to leave our stifling earthly cradle and fulfill our evolutionary destiny among the stars...or die trying. There's nothing to lose except a short, brutish existence, so onwards, past the event horizon and into the heart of the technological Singularity! If taking personal empowerment to its logical extreme sounds like your cup of tea, you have definitely come to the right place. If not, well, you might want to look around a bit anyway; you're practically guaranteed to expand your mind in Transtopia's vast and complex memespace.


Gorsh those sure are a bunch of purty words. I feel smarter and a little gay already.

In fact, there is even an "E-Test" on the site to measure how enlightened you really are! They even numbered the questions in Roman numerals to ensure that only the elite brains of our society will participate. I randomly mashed my mouse and finished the test in less then 10 seconds only to find out that I am borderline enlightened. Well they certainly had me pegged as a "modern satanist" but I was really hoping to be a Transtopian Master. I will only be able to glance into their Illuminati club from a frosty window, wondering what may have become if only I was more of an ego starved, lonely nerd.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Oh, whew! I thought you were gonna link to one of my posts.

[no name no slogan]

2. mmmKay. So Scientology blackballed them, huh?

:shrug:

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. It's a close second.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Cool - I'm a 3!

MEMETIC SHOCK LEVEL 03 (0-4): borderline Enlightened. Purgatory; the countercultural realm. The more interesting Atheists, Libertarians, Transhumanists, and Modern Satanists dwell here, together with other freethinking and politically incorrect types. Congratulations, you're just a couple candles short of Enlightenment! Keep honing those clearly present rational, taboo-smashing instincts, and one day you too might become an Enlightened Transtopian Master.



Sadly, these people are seriously fucked, though. In many ways I agree with them, but the teleological conclusion to their theories is a racist, paranoid, and heinous society of selfish, unsustainable fuckwittidom.

[xmas74]

17. I actually scored the same as you.

I tried to get past the nasty, racist-I don't know-delusional rants of a a paranoid schizophrenic?
I'm glad I didn't score in their highest ranks. I need to take a shower now-I feel filthy.

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. An apology to the people of this site.

I would also like to say that, as you can see by this thread, I recently came off of the Transtopia website. I was a bit disturbed by their theories on race and IQ, and attempted to start a discussion on this in GD: Everything Else, and I believe I may have sounded like I was in support of those theories. I most certainly am not, and I just wanted to apologize to the people of this site for taking up their time.

[Dave Reynolds]

6. I missed that part,

I don't know anyone who actually thinks like that, or at least would come out and say the things that are said on that site.

I scored 02, btw, but those people are fucked up.

[Redstone]

9. Hey, that's OK; everyone gets misunderstood here now and again.

Even me, astonishingly enough.

Redstone

[EstimatedProphet]

7. I got about halfway through the test before I quit

I just couldn't take the push-polling masturbation in the questions anymore. They were obviously looking to puff themselves up by their own questions, referring to themselves as 'Superintelligences', like here:

XVIII. The best way to survive and benefit from the Singularity is by personally becoming (part of) the (group of) Superintelligence(s) that will trigger it. One should realize the original Transhumanist ideal by pro-actively bootstrapping oneself towards ascension rather than placing one's fate in the hands of "Friendly" AIs or "benevolent" uploads.

I couldn't take it anymore. It looks like it was written by high school Star Trek nerds that were holding a grudge against the football team.

BTW, this is what you get if you give up reading the questions halfway through the test:


MEMETIC SHOCK LEVEL 03 (0-4): borderline Enlightened. Purgatory; the countercultural realm. The more interesting Atheists, Libertarians, Transhumanists, and Modern Satanists dwell here, together with other freethinking and politically incorrect types. Congratulations, you're just a couple candles short of Enlightenment! Keep honing those clearly present rational, taboo-smashing instincts, and one day you too might become an Enlightened Transtopian Master.

Still kind of condescending...and I get the feeling that an Enlightened Transtopian Master is maybe the guy that refs the D&D games in these guys' basements.

[Redstone]

10. Excellent post, EP. Bull's-eye.

Redstone

[Redstone]

8. Those people are so full of shit,

I bet they all have brown eyes.

Them there are some folks what really, really need to just get over themselves.

I bet they're real popular at coctail parties.

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

11. Hey, I have brown eyes...

am I full of shit?

Wait, don't answer that.

:evilgrin: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Redstone]

13. So do I. But ours aren't brown because we're full of shit,

like those idiots's eyese are. Ours are because we're good-lookin' people.

(Actually, I lie a bit. Mine are dichroic green and brown. They're green indoors or in low light, and brown outdoors or in bright light. But I put "brown" on driver's licenses and such because it's easier.)

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

16. LMAO

Yes, we are both good looking!

:hi:

[crispini]

12. Wow, they've definitely been reading too much Robert Heinlein.

It's FICTION, people. FICTION. Jeez.

[Redstone]

15. That's it! I THOUGHT it sounded faimiliar...

I wonder if they all think they have unusually-large schwantzes, and Heinlien liked to "endow" his leading men with, as I remember.

Hey, I bet, since you've read Heinlein, you want to vomit as much as I do when someone uses the word "grok." Is that a sign of a true weenie, or what?

But I bet you grok that already.

Redstone

[crispini]

18. Ha!

Yeah I usually give 'em the old :eyes: :7

[flvegan]

14. An enlightenment test? The makers of this test have NO idea

what enlightenment is, then.

"Better than the flock..." "you shall be as gods..." What tripe. I have yet, between Freeperville and any of Falwell's bs, to hear a bigger bunch of bullshit from self-endowed morons.

Just having a website like that proves they lack (and likely have no idea what is) enlightenment.

They should've looked it up before going to the trouble.