A different meow?

[altivo]

Your Score: The Cougar

Here's your results! Your spirit animal has a Nobility ranking of 13 out of 18.

Your spirit animal is the cougar. It is a stealthy and deadly protector. With a cougar as a spirit animal, you have nothing to fear in this world. Your life is blessed and you are on the right path. You will still have hard times, but you will pull through them, always stronger for your travails. Congratulations, few are fotunate enough to have such a spirit animal!

***Wondering how this animal was chosen for you? These questions were carefully thought out to see how important you hold certain virtues such as: humanism, self-knowledge, rationalism, the love of freedom and other somewhat Hellenic ideals. Some of the questions were very subtle. Your score was then matched with an animal of corresponding nobility. However, you shouldn't think this was a right/wrong sort of test, but more of an idealistic values test. It's ok to not hold these values, you'll just get an animal spirit of lower stature if you do!***

Link: The What is Your Spirit Animal Test written by FindingEros on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

Hrms, well it's not a horse or a unicorn but at least it have hooves. ;)

Your Score: The Deer

Here's your results! Your spirit animal has a Nobility ranking of 10 out of 18.

Your spirit animal is the deer. They are a respectable and beautiful animal. They are fearful and timid at times and are considered as having only slightly above average nobility and wisdom. The deer is a fairly common guardian, and you can feel proud knowing it will serve you well.

***Wondering how this animal was chosen for you? These questions were carefully thought out to see how important you hold certain virtues such as: humanism, self-knowledge, rationalism, the love of freedom and other somewhat Hellenic ideals. Some of the questions were very subtle. Your score was then matched with an animal of corresponding nobility. However, you shouldn't think this was a right/wrong sort of test, but more of an idealistic values test. It's ok to not hold these values, you'll just get an animal spirit of lower stature if you do!***

Link: The What is Your Spirit Animal Test written by FindingEros on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

With a Nobility ranking of 9, I have... dun dun dun... a bat.

'They are remakable creatures that guide themselves through the night using sonar. They are a fairly common spirit animal, but are neither exceptional nor despisable in regards to nobility. Being nocturnal, they have not really "seen the light", and there is much they are still unaware of, but they have their own special way of navigating the world, which though unconventional, works just fine.'

(I think I may have had a dream involving a pet fruitbat, but I preferred the one where I had an octopus. :> Dahwassokyoot.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

So I'm catty and you're batty, eh?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not only does it have hooves, it's horny. Well, antlery anyway.

I don't get the point. . .

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

I scored as a porcupine. *blinks at screen*

I'm not put out by the relatively low nobility score. But I'm more huggable than that. Honest!

Re: I don't get the point. . .

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you are. But you can be prickly at times. Still, I'd have picked a bear for you I think. :)

Of course, I'd have picked a herbivore for myself too, rather than a feline predator. The whole thing seems to run on this "nobility" factor, and then the choice of animal is based on the quiz writer's idea of what's noble. ;p

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Do cats eat bats? *upside-down shifty look*

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

But but but... "some of the questions are very subtle", after all. ;)

*sticks marshmallows on da pincushion*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Only flying cats eat bats. You're safe from me.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Marshmallows? Does that mean we're going to hold him over a fire, too?

How about we use corks and put the marshmallows on willow twigs instead?

A louder meow

[altivo.livejournal.com]

some of the questions are very subtle

*snicker* Says the author anyway. I just went back and tried again, deliberately picking "noble" answers. I scored 17 of 18 on nobility and was awarded a lion. Nice photo, but no, it's not me. Also confirms my suspicion that the animals chosen are based on the quiz author's idea of what nobility is, just as the questions are.

Wanna know what question I think I flubbed? I refused to die for my country, and chose only to die for something I really believed in. ;p

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

No kitty for me. I got 12 out of 18 and a very snowy wolf.

Re: A louder meow

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

If you had said you'd play dead for your country, you might've gotten an opossum. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Whatever I think about the author's judgement, the selection of photos is VERY nice. ;p

I like every one of them I've seen. I'd suggest you go back and take it again, and try to be a bit more "noble". You might even get the very imperial looking lion. ;D

Or if you'd rather, I'll trade you my cougar for your wuffie, even-steven.

Re: A louder meow

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Or a roadkill raccoon?

Someday I'm gonna have to write one of these. I'm an OKCupid member, I'm entitled. ;p

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Marshmallows, eh?
*wanders away with the marshmallows to have a midnight snack later*

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I got the snowy wolf... Can't complain though. I think some of the questions are a bit too bated.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's a very handsome wuff, though. I wonder what the perfect score animal is? Since he used the lion for 17/18, I have a niggling suspicion the perfect score gets you an eagle. Or maybe if he's really partial to cats, a tiger?

Note that the "correct" answer to the mythical animal question seems to be phoenix (misspelled as pheonix.) That's what I said when I got the lion. I chose werewolf when I got the cougar. I figured the most "noble" of the choices had to be the dragon or the phoenix.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I've been toying with it, and the highest I've managed so far is the lion... but both the drgon and phoenix will yield that.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's the breakdown.

A score of 1 nets you a rat
A score of 2 nets you a skunk
A score of 3 nets you a hyena
A score of 4 nets you a weasel
A score of 5 nets you a snake
A score of 6 nets you a mouse
A score of 7 nets you a chipmunk
A score of 8 nets you a porcupine
A score of 9 nets you a bat
A score of 10 nets you a deer
A score of 11 nets you an otter
A score of 12 nets you a wolf
A score of 13 nets you a couger
A score of 14 nets you a grizzly bear
A score of 15 nets you a deer
A score of 16 nets you a buffalo
A score of 17 nets you a lion
A score of 18 nets you a eagle

Re: A louder meow

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Nope, you've got the right answer with dieing only for something you really believe in. Dieing for your country won't give you the point.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Interesting. They used deer twice? Different photos?

I just knew the top score was gonna be eagle. While I certainly agree with efforts to protect eagles and keep them around, I also agree with Benjamin Franklin, who described the eagle as a cowardly thief and carrion eater. ;p Not my choice for most "noble" animal at all.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Oops, no I marked it down wrong. 15 is an elk.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, well. A choice I can agree with. Though I'd have picked moose, probably. :D

I really did like the wolf and lion photos.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I liked the weasel picture too.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I knew it, there is something about horses which makes cats like them :) Hence stable cats ^.^

I got a deer by the by o.O

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fair trade to me.
Then again, anything that results in me getting a cougar sounds good. ;-)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Deal. Cougars can be nice, you are proof of the fact. On the other hoof, I never have enough woofs. And for big cats I do prefer lions and snow leopards usually.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's simple really. Horses mean lots of hay. Lots of hay means lots of mice. And hay is also good for making nice warm kitty nests in for sleeping. Horses generate a fair amount of heat in the winter too. We aren't called "hayburners" for nothing. Our little wooden barn, if the doors and windows are closed at night, will actually rise in interior temperature overnight to about 10° F. more than the outdoor temperature. That's the heating power of two horses in about 6000 cubic feet of space.

[t-h-squirrel.livejournal.com]

I like cougars and horseys like you. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*turns head to look curiously at himself*

Uh, gosh, thanks I think.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

*acts hurt*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Marz, dear, we're actually talking plushies here.

With respect to tigers, I admit they kind of scare me. Between the rare and endangered thing, the famously unpredictable temper, and a certain degree of aloofness that I usually perceive in them, tigers generate more awe and caution in me than anything else. Another species for which I have a similar reaction is the dragon.

Now, on individual terms things can be quite different, and I do really like you. But you're the only tiger I've been that friendly with ever. ;D

Re: A louder meow

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

So you're saying it's not noble to die protecting your fellow countrymen? That's a strange sense of nobility.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

There needs to be a horse in there and it should be at the very top. Horses have always been known for their nobility.

Re: A louder meow

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

That depends on how you interpret the question "to die for your country." If someone dies defending their country and those that live in it, how is that noble? To give one's life up for another is the among the highest of noble deeds and acts of virtue that anyone can do. "Greater love has no one than he who gives up his life for his friends." Now there are other ways one may die for their country that is not so noble, perhaps at the hand of their own country or they die because of some corrupt agenda or regime that claims to be doing something for the betterment of the nation. If you refuse to die for something you don't believe in, no one can fault you on that. But if you refuse to die to protect others, then no, that isn't very noble.

I marked the same option as you did because I felt that it was more broad and could include anything, whether it be defending the innocent or friends, or faith, or whatever.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Horse did not even make the list of options apparently. It should be at the top. That's ridiculous. There are also no aquatic species, particularly cetaceans on the list which I think are very noble animals, especially dolphins. If you ask me, the author of this test has a strange sense of nobility.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Note that they are all wild animals. Therefore, no horse, cow, dog, cat, sheep, etc. That doesn't bother me.

No aquatics is obviously a case of selectiveness. But truly, we're talking native American symbolism now, and other than the northern Pacific coastal tribes (your area, I know) they didn't know about whales, dolphins, or seals and sea lions.

Like so many of these quiz things, it's just an amusement and probably designed by someone in their teens or twenties with not a whole lot of breadth of exposure.

Re: A louder meow

[altivo.livejournal.com]

He's saying that he tested by trying the various answers and it doesn't give you extra points for "dying for your country". He's not passing any personal judgement on whether it is noble or not.

The wording doesn't say "dying to save others" but rather "dying for your country" which to me means because the leaders told you to do it. That is something I do not particularly respect, as you well know. Given the history of these things in our lifetimes (for me, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Ethiopia, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq) it smacks of jingoism and lock-step obedience rather than nobility.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Awws... I'm flattered.

Re: A louder meow

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

Not my quiz dear, I am saying nothing of the sort. only that the quiz will not give you the point for that answer. Please don't put words in my muzzle.

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

I agree, it should be in there somewhere. Where I can't say, but Horses definitely deserve to make the list. But again, we have no real idea what the author of the quiz is basing his selections on.

Re: A louder meow

[marzolan.livejournal.com]

That's my thinking on it. Choosing that answer is the equivalent to choosing the obedience answer on one of the last questions about which is most important to you. The obedience answer will not give you a point just like dying because your leaders say so will not give you the point. At least, I think that's what the author was going for.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

My uncle used to leave a heater *sealed oil type electric* on in his shed of an evening in winter so the local stray cats could have somewhere warm to sleep :)