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Doc's position is on his veranda, in his rocking chair, plucking his banjo, sipping poteen and muttering all sorts of blarney.

Watched over by a statue of the Virgin Mary of course.

Well, in my imagination.

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Politics:
1. Generally, how do you identify politically?
Trump Conservative 

2. Given the following 6 political identities, which do you most closely relate to? (Anarchist, Liberal, Centrist, Libertarian, Conservative, Authoratarian) 
Conservative 

3. If you were to choose 4 political identities as the most common - which four would they be?
Centrist, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian

4. If you were to briefly describe your general political identity - how would you?
Supporter of President Trump and the AMERICA FIRST conservative agenda.

5. If you were to briefly describe your closest-relative political identity - how would you?
Support of the traditional family structure and self-determination.

6. If you were to briefly describe the political identity which is directly opposed to yours - how would you?
Willing to do anything to stay and take power.

7. If you were to list the positions most integral to your political identity - what would they be? (listed from least to most important)
Supreme Court
Lower Taxes
Deregulation 
Free and Fair Trade
Immigration
Guns

8. If you were to list the top 4 positions which you most agree with, what four would they be?
Anti-Illegal Immigration
Pro-Second Amendment
Lower Taxes
Deregulation 

9. Do you consider your political identity widely represented in your respective government?
No.

10. What questions, if any, would you add to this section of the survey?
I think most of them are very similar to the contrary

Social:
1. What do you believe to be the biggest social problem of today's era?
Mainstream Media and Big Tech

2. How do you think this problem could be solved generally?
Easier to sue the press for defamation and then anti-trust legislation

3. What do you think of these sexual/gender identities; Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, or Asexual?
Don’t really care as long as it doesn’t impact me.

4. What do you think of cultural labels such as "cultural marxists" or "TERFs"? (though not limited to those labels specifically)
Agree with some of them

5. Which, if any, circumstances do you believe justifies abortion?
Life of mother is in danger

6. What do you believe to be the ideal home environment?
Nuclear Family

7. What do you believe to be the most important value to instill in young individuals?
Loyalty

8. What do you think of cultural movements such as BLM or Feminism?
Stupid.

9. Should taxpayer money be used to support policies such as Universal Healthcare and Universal Secondary Education?
No.

10. What questions, if any, would you add to this section of the survey?
Dunno

Religion:
1. Generally, which religion do you identify with?
Hinduism

2. Generally, do you believe religion to be important to society - how so or how not?
Yes, because it instills family values in most cases which is a high determinant of success

3. Do you believe the religion you identify with is being persucted or bigoted against?
No.

4. Do you believe that its important for education to instill relgious values into children?
No. Should be the job of the parents.

5. Aside from the god of your religion, do you believe that religion is the most important aspect of life?
No.

6. Do you believe that everyone else, or the majority of people, should be of your religion?
Don’t really care

7. What do you think of indivudals who do not affilate with your religion?
To each their own

8. Do you believe that the church and government should be seperated?
Yes

9. Do you believe that individuals have a freedom from religion as well as a freedom to religion?
Yes

10. What questions, if any, would you add to this section of the survey?
Dunno

Science:
1. Generally, do you believe science to be an accurate way of interpreting and describing our reality?
Yes in most cases

2. Do you believe that the theory of natural selection and evolution is how the current species of the earth developed?
Seems plausible, don’t know much bout it tho

3. Do you believe that creationism is how the current species of the earth developed?
I don’t know, maybe

4. Do you believe that the big bang and cosmologic evolution is how our current universe "began"?
Until contrary evidence comes, yes

5. Do you believe that the oblate spheroid model of the earth is accurate in regards to the shape of the earth?
Yes

6. Do you believe that climate change is happening at an increased rate?
Yes, but it is cyclical in nature

7. Do you believe that there are genetic differences between different ethnicities aside from melalin content?
Yes - certain races are more likely to develop diseases like sickle cell anemia

8. Do you believe that IQ tests are accurate ways of measuring an individual's intelligence?
To a certain degree

9. Do you believe that the current scientific consensus is accurate in regards to the description of reality?
Not in all cases - science is always changing 

10. What questions, if any, would you add to this section of the survey
None 

Misc.
1. Would you be interested in a general interview, conducted by Theweakeredge?
Sure

2. Would you be interested in a specific interview, conducted by Theweakeedge?
Sure

3. Do you think the questions presented above are effective in collecting the general positions of individuals?
No, they’re too generalized with little regard for nuance in the way they’re asked

4. What categories, if any, would you add or take away from the survey above?
Add to all

5. On a scale of 1-10 (1 being lowest, 10 being highest) how would you rate the bias of this test?
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@ILikePie5
You are a Hindu?! I am shocked.
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@RationalMadman
You are a Hindu?! I am shocked.
Why does that shock you?
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@ILikePie5
Probably because your profile says pastafarianism?
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@ILikePie5
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I'm pretty surprised at that as well. Never would have guessed it.
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Our favorite knight has returned. God bless
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Probably because your profile says pastafarianism?
Oh lol ya I put that as a joke

I'm pretty surprised at that as well. Never would have guessed it.
You probably thought I was white you racist 😂
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Our favorite knight has returned. God bless
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I knew Pie was Hindu even before I knew him. I recall him telling me about an Indian dish he made for DARTvivor and also knew he said once he was vegetarian and looking at the philosophies of Hinduism, the dots lined up
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@Vader
Our favorite knight has returned. God bless
I'm just visiting, but thanks.
I knew Pie was Hindu even before I knew him. I recall him telling me about an Indian dish he made for DARTvivor and also knew he said once he was vegetarian and looking at the philosophies of Hinduism, the dots lined up
A triumph of deduction, Detective Supa. Well done.
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@ILikePie5
Oh lol ya I put that as a joke
I knew it was a joke. It's just a joke that I would have expected an atheist to make, not a Hindu.
You probably thought I was white you racist
Erm, no, definitely not, not at all...whatever gave you that idea?

On an unrelated note, it's mighty hot in here, yes sirree, yes it is.
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@SirAnonymous
Erm, no, definitely not, not at all...whatever gave you that idea?

On an unrelated note, it's mighty hot in here, yes sirree, yes it is.
😂😂
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@SirAnonymous
Probably because your profile says pastafarianism?
There are a minority within Hinduism (especially Tamil Hindus) who oppose the term because it is a phrase British Colonists forced onto them by pooling together what were different philosophical groups within a broaders spectrum.

The Shiva branch of what's now known as Hinduism was its own religion entirely, called Shaivism and the Vishnu branch was known as Vaishnavism. In fact, they believed the same blue god was a different person (the Vaishnavism believed that same individual was an entity with the values and personality that the British made them call Vishnu and the Shaivanists didn't actually believe Shiva was a god but instead had a more abstract concept). As for Brahma, that was several pagan religions meshed into one, in order to bring peace amongst different factions and castes within India.


The idea of statues being sacred was, again, a separate religion known as Nadukkal-worship and it is from Nadukkal sculpturists that the British got the idea to fuse Vaishnavism and Shaivanism into one.

Ancient 'Hindu scriptures' such as the Vedas, Mahabharata and Ramayana, were actually separate concepts and religions to one another. Vaishnavism is based more on Ramayana while Shaivanism is based more on Mahabharata.

The idea of Hinduism and all of it fitting together in one is from the British trying to 'define' and pool together all the native Sanskrit ideologies still present in India and put it into one religion on its own. That's also why Hinduism is so confusing and has so many demigods, this is because the Nadukkal worshippers didn't follow any kind of Hinduism at all, they just liked to make statues and worship them (literally), it was a hobby and specialist craft. 

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@RationalMadman
That was pretty interesting. Thanks.
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A visit home after a long quest is still a return
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@SirAnonymous
Shaivism not Shaivanism sorry
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@Vader
Yea, verily.
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@RatMan

Shaivism.....Worship of a humanesque godhead.

Sounds somewhat familiar......But with an Indian twist.
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@RationalMadman
how so
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@zedvictor4
right, in your imagination
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@Dr.Franklin
The answers you gave, can you find anything in them that Mussolini wouldn't have answered, other than specifics about you?

I specify Mussolini because Nazism was an unusually extreme version of Fascism, so Hitler would be an unnecessary comparison.
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@Dr.Franklin
For sure Doc.

It would be interesting to see and hear what Debatearters are actually like, in the flesh.
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Mussolini was excessively aggressive, i want an isolationist policy
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@zedvictor4
for sure, zed