h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Good to hear...

and
instead of (example) calista flockhart (is that how you spell it?)

I'm not sure she does it intentionally.
She seems to be proportional.

I also don't mind athletes or at least people who work out regularly.
It's the baste the body, tighten the brow, starve to be... sorts, who can't remember what their original hair color was.
And the cosmetic surgery bunch....

and anyone, regardless of appearance, who wears a pervasive scent.
If I can smell you across a pub, then you're wearing too much.

When I go to church, it is so nose-blindingly smelly.
The current janitor uses one of those I can't believe I love my Carpet powders when he vacuums.
The members of the concretation are simply wafting in scents and fabric softeners and deodorants and...
Ick.

At least god knows where you are....
SNIFF

I wanna find a Chatauqua Church, that worships under a tent in a field.
If it rains, so be it.

Wonder if there are any Druid Baptists...?
Probably are and don't know it.
I think it is interesting that the rise of the Modern Pagan movement directly parallels the rise of the use of air conditioning in churches. Sky-clad beats polyester any day...

The whole point of the building of churches and cathedrals in the first place was the separation from the "pagans" and "heathens" who worshipped nature.
Unfortunately, when you get the great unwashed in a enclosed space, you have to have a little incense to make things seem a bit more holy.

Never mind the fact that, since man is made in God's image, and God is seemingly pleased by the smells of buring meat and essential oils, that old Elohim himself might need a little deodorant when he comes into the presence of the Pope...

We now return you to our regularly scheduled deprogramming...

image = scent ?

Well, the truly irritating thing about dealing with people who think they have God's phone number is that they are always confused when you mention God having a sense of humor or a face or a part of his body that sits on the throne...

So, if people smell, then that is the way they were built...by God.
So, if you sanitize the crap out of everything and fill the air with burning sap and oils and stuff, then you are sanitizing...God...

Let's see, what was the line in one of Jesus' routines, about 'whited sepulchres'?

Equating cleanliness with being next to Godliness is an advertising ploy by Ponds.

yeah, but in theory god also created the smells that the incence is supposed to smell like.
and who said it's wrong to disagree with god?

If god is Ominipotent then there's no point in arguing with god.

Ponds point is a good one.

To smell or not to smell that is the question. Whether it is nobeler to suffer the pongs of others.........

I think the only answer is to go to the gym and work out extra hard before you go to church so you smell the worst and overpower the cheap purfumes and exotic incense....

Actually, we've been doing a bit of that.
There's a municipal exercise track they installed on top of an old RR bed near the church and on Wednesday afternoons before church, me and the kid walk swiftly the four miles to and fro and arrive in the holy precincts rather winded and sweaty...
No commments, yet, from the overweight friends of God.

Well they are a lot closer to their own pong than they are to yours...
Besides, it's God's comments that are the ones your after so until you're struck by lightening before entering the church I'd say you're doing fine...

A guy called Neale: "So it's OK to disagree with God?"
God (allegedly): "Certainly. What do you think I'm going to do, squash you like an insect?"

Isn't one of the commandments "don't disagree with god"?

It's all open to interpretation.

Any current news about Owlatron and Luke?

We hear if it's permanent on Monday, apparently. They consider everything said on the relevant conversations and by email, etc, and then we'll find out.