Neo-Classical or Romanticism or Victorian

Part 1

For each grouping below, select one that best fits your life or worldview.






1. The Perfect Experience:

You imagine what a perfect experience WILL soon be like: a vacation, a party, a night out

Idealize how to make the experience perfect. (The experience will be critiqued)

You wait to reflect on an experience afterwards




2: Best Pursuit

Pursuit of knowledge: to assist you in acting proper to raise one's social status

Pursuit of experiences: jump into experiences for the sake of experiencing newness

Pursuit of ideal: having a set of ideal situations, you seek out those experiences intentionally




3: Emotions

Emotions are a reactionary event to stimuli and duress

Emotion are to be reserved, especially in social situations

Emotion, an expression of living, are like a bursting well, a spring of intense force




4: Understanding is derived from:

Learning from from wiser, smarter people (in books or in real life) to obtain wisdom of how to be

Canvassing your world, not necessarily for traditional beliefs but to glean beliefs of wisidom or how to be

Rejecting (or ignoring) most people's views of how to be and challenging any book that discusses such




5: Nature

Nature is informed with reason and knowledge

Nature is mystical, magical, and allows for random intense experiences

Nature is good; it's a good place to go once in a while, like the beach.




6: Engaging Experience

Concerning experiences and emotions, Joy is a better life than depression, love better than hate, beauty better than ugly

Experiences need to be deeply reflected on and analyzed in relation to prior knowledge for a new understanding

All experiences are worthy of having, life is about all types of experiences and emotions, not just "good" ones.




7: Worth of Experience

You correlate possible experiences with their worth in relation to what knowledge can be gained

You plan experiences that you want to have, such as graduating college, getting married, or travelling

You tend not to plot every future desire, finding more joy in experiences just occurring spontaneously




8: Platonic Friends

If you hear someone says they have a Platonic friendship with their bff, you believe that means they are sexually detached from one another

If you hear someone says they have a Platonic friendship with their bff, you believe that they are seeking the ideal form of a connection with another person

If you hear someone says they have a Platonic friendship with their bff, you believe that means they are spiritually or intellectually attached to one another




9: Personal space/environment

Against controlling personal space/ 'environment,' leave yourself open to random people and places.

You feel a need to have control of the choices concerning your personal space/'environment', such as friends, places you go, and people around you

You monitor and select the best spaces/'environments' that will help you better understand your own knowledge set and the wisdom you wish to acquire




10: Logic vs. Emotion

Logic-only is cowardly and ugly; experience emotions

Escape the cowardly and the ugly; experience the beautiful

Succumbing to emotion is cowardly and ugly; use reason