If you could choose a flawed past life, which one would you choose?
A scientist who made a great discovery, for whom someone else got the credit
19(45.2%)
A tenant farmer who works miracles in spent soil, but earns little income
6(14.3%)
An artist with great gifts, who makes a living illustrating tawdry greeting cards
12(28.6%)
The unacknowledged life-sustaining mistress of a powerful and very "holy" bishop
3(7.1%)
The dresser of a great actor (see also Tom Courtenay)
2(4.8%)
What scientific theorem would you most like to see proven in your lifetime?
I want date, time, place and userid for the Big Bang
7(15.2%)
I want to live to see fossilized life found on Mars
14(30.4%)
I want to see humans really communicate with cetaceans
10(21.7%)
I'd settle for a simple video of the Loch Ness monster
5(10.9%)
Forget the big stuff--just finish the DNA mapping
10(21.7%)
To what extent do you believe things based on faith or superstition which science can't prove?
Mean: 50.50 Median: 52.5 Std. Dev 31.82
You are granted the power to wipe away one denial of science, harmlessly, as if by magic. Which one do you choose?
I wipe away opposition to the Theory of Evolution
7(17.1%)
I wipe away the thoughts that deny that HIV causes AIDS
4(9.8%)
I wipe away the idea that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old
9(22.0%)
I erase the notion that medical procedures are valid because they are ancient, even if no testing supports them
1(2.4%)
I hit the delete button on the notion that pesticides used by farmers do not materially affect ecosystems
17(41.5%)
I sorrowfully eliminate the idea that overfishing is okay, so long as people have to pay for fishing boats.
3(7.3%)
What false notion would you love to believe?
The world is flat
9(20.9%)
People are the center of the universe
19(44.2%)
The sun revolves around the earth
7(16.3%)
Tomatoes are poisonous
6(14.0%)
Leaders rule by divine right
2(4.7%)
If you had an aura, would yours be:
golden, to match (or contrast with) my luxuriant hair
4(10.0%)
silver, to show my immense dignity
7(17.5%)
bronze, because I have that Greek godling look
0(0.0%)
platinum, like a really high limit credit card
2(5.0%)
azure, because I can see for miles and miles
27(67.5%)
You may choose one person from history who has agreed to accept you as a willing apprentice. Who do you choose?
Which would be the greatest tragedy?
to be born into a better era, but die of a cancer which would now be curable before you truly made your mark
2(4.8%)
to live your life here today as if it has no meaning
30(71.4%)
to reincarnate as a paramecium, and then spend millena just splitting over and over
5(11.9%)
to go to a Heaven where people wear polyester too often
3(7.1%)
to go to a Hell where your least favorite teacher runs a perpetual detention hall
2(4.8%)
What is the one simple thing you've neglected to do this year?
simple kindness to a friend
3(7.1%)
simple keeping of a promise
2(4.8%)
simple contact with a relative
15(35.7%)
simple good sense about a personal life matter
22(52.4%)
Is your journal character:
much less flawed than in real life
6(14.6%)
much more attractive than in real life
2(4.9%)
much more coherent than in real life
8(19.5%)
much less vibrant than in real life
7(17.1%)
much more two-dimensional than in real life.
18(43.9%)
What hypocrisy would you be ashamed for your LJ friends to know about you?
I am a hypocrite, I am not as kind as my journal makes me seem.
4(7.3%)
I am a hypocrite, because I am not as witty as my journal makes me seem
3(5.5%)
I am a hypocrite, because I am not as sensible as my journal makes me seem.
6(10.9%)
I am a hypocrite, because I say I'm insightful I can't even figure out my hypocrisy in this poll
15(27.3%)
I am a computer-generated LJ spyder, who is incapable of hypocrisy, but plays a mean game of virtual Old Maid
3(5.5%)
I am not as good a person as my LJ makes me seem
10(18.2%)
I am not as brave as my LJ makes me seem
14(25.5%)
The world should know about me:
I can be capable of great kindness
6(14.3%)
I have flashes of real insight
8(19.0%)
I have an intuition bordering on the psychic
6(14.3%)
I have creativity that pleases me
8(19.0%)
I am capable of great affection
14(33.3%)
The mythical land from a novel in which I'd feel most at home is:
My advice to someone trying to work through the dilemma of how to live a good life is: