Approximately how many hours per week do you dedicate to spiritual activity?

• Zero.
• One hour or less.
• One to four hours.
• More than four hours.

What constitutes "spiritual activities" is not well defined. I am asssuming, for the purposes of my answer, that it doesn't mean traditional worship or rituals, and it includes meditating, reading and discussing about the Great Questions. In which case, I do quite a bit of it, thank you very much.

Could Evolution and Intelligent Design both be right?

• Yes.
• No.

Intelligent Design is not science, while the theory of Evolution is. This means there's empirical evidence supporting evolution, that it can be tested, and that there's experiments that could prove it wrong or right.

None of these things is true for ID, which makes it a philosophical or religious belief. They are completely different, but ID is much less useful, because it tells us nothing about how nature works.

They could actually be both right, of course. We could also all be in the Matrix being fed false information about the world for all we know. But neither proposition is actually useful until there's evidence supporting it, and must therefore be discarded.

Also, I find a God that made it all wholesale far more boring than one who set the initial conditions and laws and then let it all work out by itself, so it fails even the entertainment test.

How often are you open with your feelings?

• Always
• Usually
• Rarely
• Never

I tend to be pretty open with my feelings... when I know what they are, which is not very often. So, in practice, rarely.

Do you believe in the power of prayer?

• Yes.
• No.

While I do not believe that prayers have a supernatural healing power, I do believe that, for believers, they can provide comfort, hope and even some kind of placebo effects, and therefore contribute to the healing process.

Faith does have its advantages, otherwise the idea wouldn't have survived so long.

Once you have grown to love somebody, is it possible to stop loving them?

• Yes.
• No.
• I'm not sure.

I think the problem is that we often grow to love an image, an idol of a person, not the person itself. When this image is broken, when we discover the person does not fit our expectations, or when the person changes, our love itself becomes an illusion, a lie. Then, you discover you didn't love that person at all. If you had truly loved them, then this disillusionment wouldn't have happened.

Should people seeking to adopt children be required by law to pass a parenting course prior to being allowed to adopt?

• Yes.
• No.

I don't quite understand why adopting parents are demanded so much more than biological ones, given how many stupid, uncaring, incompetent parents of the biological variety you find out there. Is it really so much better to leave the kids in the orphanage? I understand some degree of caution is needed to prevent abuse, but the current system seems to be a poor fit for both prospective parents and orphan children. Either everyone needs to get certification to get children or nobody does, and I don't think the first is really an option, tempting as it is.

Do you practice any methods of divination?

• Yes.
• No.

I don't believe in divination per se, but it can be fun to do as a game, and it can sometimes be used as an inspiration for thinking about the future. My mother taught me to read cards and hands a long time ago, but I prefer to use the I-Ching myself. Sometimes I open a book at random (the Bible, or the Tao Te Ching usually) and look at the pages for inspiration. The important thing is to just use that as food for tought, rather than take it as an autoritative source of truth.

There are no such things as 'Good' and 'Evil'.

• I strongly agree.
• I agree.
• I disagree.
• I strongly disagree.

This is a question with a lot of meat. My own opinion is that to judge Good and Evil we would need to know all the eventual consequences of each of our actions, in order to know their impact in the world. Therefore, only an omniscient being could judge Good and Evil. Since we humans are pretty much limited, we should be very careful before emitting judgement.

On a more practical, I do believe that we have to make such decissions in a day to day basis, so we have build our own eithic based on experience, learning, social conventions and our own intellect; and society must agree (and review often) on a core, flexible set of moral guidelines based on the consensus of its members. Both should be based on the principles of prevention of harm and maximal freedom for the members of society.

Finally, in the relative sense of the previous paragraph, there's good an evil acts, but not good and evil people.

Do you believe in reincarnation?

• Yes.
• No.
• I'm not sure.

This question is a bit incomplete without more options, given that there's many modalities of reincarnation, from straight-out trasmigration of the souls to the simple transmision of the consequences of your actions into the future.

I will assume it means the more mystical option, and answer No.

This used to be on my profile, but it was too verbose. If anyone's interested, they can look it up here: These are my IPIP-NEO results; you can find the test and description online: EXTRAVERSION, 57, Average Friendliness, 56, Average (Varies randomly, actually) Gregariousness, 38, Average (Yeah, don’t like crowds too much) Assertiveness, 81, High (Spot on) Activity Level, 70, High (Yeah, right... I do lots of things, just not the things I should be doing) Excitement-Seeking, 76, High (Well, maybe) Cheerfulness, 11, Low (Too true...) AGREEABLENESS, 70, High Trust, 79 High (I'm a romantic and a cynic. Is that even possible?) Morality, 72, High (A problem more often than not) Altruism, 80, High (Same as above) Cooperation, 44, Average (I may help you, but I will do it my way) Modesty, 26, Low (I've never been big on modesty, I prefer honesty) Sympathy, 82, High (Crunchy on the outside, soft inside... pity it is so well hidden most of the time) CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, 46, Average Self-Efficacy, 80, High (I get stuff done, when I find the motivation) Orderliness, 33, Average, (I don’t allow order to get in my way) Dutifulness, 66, Average (I do what I have to do… usually) Achievement-Striving, 56, Average (I am ambitious, but I’m not obsessed) Self-Discipline, 36, Average (I’m easily distracted) Cautiousness, 30, Low (Usually I either on a whim, or delay taking a decision until it is too late) NEUROTICISM, 56, Average Anxiety, 73, High (I find it hard to relax) Anger, 1, Low (I am difficult to anger) Depression, 91, High (I’m not a happy bunny, though) Self-Consciousness, 48, Average (I usually don’t care what people think about me) Immoderation, 68, High (I tend to over expend in food, clothes and gadgets, possibly to deal with Depression above) Vulnerability, 58, Average (I’m usually good at dealing with stress) OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE, 92, High Imagination, 89, High (It gets me through life) Artistic Interests, 69, High (Both of my parents are artists) Emotionality, 2, Low (I lost touch with my feelings long, long ago) Adventurousness, 99, High (I love trying new things) Intellect, 87, High (I live in my mind most of the time) Liberalism, 97, High (Personal freedom is very important to me)