Category Archives: polls

my immortality poll & paper

I tweeted this recently: Phi­los­o­phy poll: T/F — Death is a nec­es­sary con­di­tion for the mean­ing­ful­ness of life; immor­tal­ity is incom­pat­i­ble with mean­ing­ful­ness. Here are the totally unrep­re­sen­ta­tive results: False — 6 True — 3 (assum­ing that this response counts as a “true”) For what­ever it’s worth, my vote is “false.” Assum­ing that the mean­ing­ful­ness of one’s life

"time heals all wounds" poll results

Yes­ter­day, I asked my Twit­ter & Face­book friends whether they agree or dis­agree that “time heals all wounds.” The replies were fan­tas­tic, so I am repro­duc­ing them here for pos­ter­ity. Kudos espe­cially to the authors of 11, 13, and 16, whose views most closely track my own. And I apol­o­gize to #17, for obvi­ous rea­sons,