Do you believe in ...

[Eran of Arcadia]

I think "heat death" and "big freeze" mean the same thing, don't they?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I think "heat death" and "big freeze" mean the same thing, don't they?

You're right, my bad.

 

[El_Machinae]

That is discounting inter-dimensional travel!

You know, since this is the thread for beliefs-you-cannot-really-justify ...

I'm honestly somewhat optimistic on interdimensional travel in order to dodge heat death. Heh. Now THAT's optimistic.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

May as well give mine (some are influenced by my religious views, some aren't):

God, heaven, hell: voted yes, although as downtown pointed out, the LDS idea of hell is VERY different from the mainstream.
YEC: Nope.
The Biblical flood: well, I believe that the flood described in Genesis actually happened at least somewhat as described - that a prophet was saved from it because he was told to build a ship. But it didn't cover the whole world and it didn't involve gathering two (or seven) of every species in the world.
The Rapture: Eschatology is not my thing, but I don't believe in it.
Biblical prophecies, other prophecies: By "other" I don't have Nostradamus in mind, but I do believe God spoke to other prophets besides those whose writings made it into the Bible.
Manmade global warming: Human activity strikes me as the most likely explanation for recent worldwide temperature increases. We better hope it is - it's going to cause problems regardless, at least if we started it we can slow it down.
Theory of Evolution, Big Bang Theory: Yes.
Theory of Gravity: Here I was a smart-aleck. As far as I know there is no theory of gravity, only the fact it exists.
Alien lifeforms, intelligent aliens: Seems likely to me. Again, for religious reasons: God created an enormous universe, I am sure He needs the space for intelligent life. Even if intelligent life (or life in general) isn't the only thing He is concerned about.
Intelligent aliens visiting earth, Bigfoot, mediums, tarot readings: No. I don't think there is any evidence for it. (But wait! you cry. What about the things you said yes to? Well . . . You ARE asking what we believe, and why I believe what I believe is a whole story in itself.)
Man landing on the moon: I actually used to read several of the "hoax/conspiracy debunking" websites. What the evidence shows happen is far more fascinating - and fits the available evidence far better - than any hoax argument.
Extinction of the human race: well, I don't think outrunning the 2nd Law is going to work. Time travel won't do it, because of the Wowbagger Paradox. (Which I made up). And I do believe in an eternal afterlife, but that is outside the physical universe, and if we get that, we won't be humans in the same sense we are now.
Interstellar migration of the human race: a man can dream, can't he?
Love after love: nope, you get one shot. If your heart is broken, that's it for you. You may go through the motions with someone else, but you are only deluding yourself. (Okay, not really. I may be the exception here.)
None of the above: I voted "no" to that one.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Gravity does has several theories to explain it because we don't fully understand how it works.

Anywhoo, you and downtown got me interested: What does a Mormon hell look like?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Gravity does has several theories to explain it because we don't fully understand how it works.

Shows what I know. Physics is less interesting to me than biology anyways.

Anywhoo, you and downtown got me interested: What does a Mormon hell look like?

We mean several things by the word, but you should ask the question in my Ask a Mormon thread (the second link in my sig) so as not to sidetrack this one.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Shows what I know.

Honestly, you probably don't know significantly less than many physicists.

Rule of thumb: If they can't explain it to a child, they don't fully understand it. I've had professors who can't explain it to other PhD's.

 

[Kennigit]

wait THATS what love after love means?

I thought it meant something like love for love's sake, i.e. can two people really just love each other and not go into other things like family pressures, societal pressures, finances, etc.

also just wanted to post I'm tired of reading the thread title and think "do you believe in magic"

 

[warpus]

Gravity does has several theories to explain it because we don't fully understand how it works.

Anywhoo, you and downtown got me interested: What does a Mormon hell look like?

It's a 24/7 buffet involving free unlimited tea, coffee, various kinds of alcohol, tobacco, mind-altering drugs, prostitutes, and of course free unlimited gambling. There's pornography plastered all over the walls as well, and if you don't partake in the buffet you have to go to a room where it's always Sunday and all you do is build blasphemous wooden statues of religious icons while caffeine is pumped into your veins. Everyone wears sleeveless shirts and nobody's related or married.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's a 24/7 buffet involving free unlimited tea, coffee, various kinds of alcohol, tobacco, mind-altering drugs, prostitutes, and of course free unlimited gambling. There's pornography plastered all over the walls as well, and if you don't partake in the buffet you have to go to a room where it's always Sunday and all you do is build blasphemous wooden statues of religious icons while caffeine is pumped into your veins. Everyone wears sleeveless shirts and nobody's related or married.

Nice contrast to the answer I got in the chamberpot.

 

[warpus]

I hope that our resident Mormons aren't offended, I just tried to list as many of the "Mormons shouldn't be doing this" things as I could (or opposites of things they should be embracing), based on the lists I found online. I figure.. If they're not allowed to do it, it must be happening in hell!

 

[Antilogic]

Do you believe in magic?
in a young girl's heart...

On a slightly more serious note, I don't think anyone will be surprised that I'm in the science camp.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I hope that our resident Mormons aren't offended, I just tried to list as many of the "Mormons shouldn't be doing this" things as I could (or opposites of things they should be embracing), based on the lists I found online. I figure.. If they're not allowed to do it, it must be happening in hell!

That list is totally inaccurate.

In that we can drink herbal tea.

 

[Borachio]

How about decaffeinated coffee? No-alcohol beer, herbal tobacco, non-psychoactive drugs, and sisters of mercy masseuses?

 

[Angst]

God
Manmade global warming
Theory of evolution
Big bang theory
Theory of gravity
Alien lifeforms
Intelligent aliens
Man landing on the moon
Extinction of the human race
Interstellar migration of the human race
Love after love

 

[Borachio]

Humanity
Positive Futures
Mythologies
Canonicity
Science
Transport
Mystery
Card games
Fraud
Love before, during, and after love.

 

[Ayatollah So]

I would've perhaps voted 'extinction of the human race', but I think a simple statement like that kinda implies 'within the next hundred years' or something stupid.

No, I actually meant anytime in the future.

Well then...

I just realized that I should have voted for the extinction of humanity. I'm reasonably sure the total heat death of the universe will get us.

This.

For the record, I also think that anything resembling the genus Homo will be long gone before then. But if we include anything that looks back on us and claims us as part of its history, then maybe "we" will only succumb to the heat death of the universe, and not sooner. Maybe. I won't go as far as "probably".

[On missing the Big Bang] That's too bad, the next one might not be for awhile.

LMAO

I don't know. The poem is a bit of a puzzle. It seems to saying that after having loved others, you finally come to love yourself. But this may not be a valid reading.

?? What poem?

(I always thought the lyrics were "Do you believe in life after love?")

Oh, THAT poem. Then my Yes answer was the right one. And actually, come to think of it, "love after love" might not be a bad interpretation of those lyrics.

 

[Borachio]

This poem.

Love after Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

I believe in happy ending. If you are not happy it simply means its not the end.

 

[Borachio]

That's... deep.