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

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alji

God is whatever you want him to be. If he does exist he could be a friend or foe.If I won the lottery I would really take notice of him and he would be my friend, but so far he/she it, has not made presence felt.May the Force be with you.

Are you saying that God is a mental construct, existing only to the extent that all our shared thoughts have existence?

TRiG.

I do not worry about a god's existence. What worries me more is all those invisible pink unicorns running around. Never know when one of the sharp pointy bits are going to run into me.

Perhaps god is just prepping a petri dish. How is it going to react when it comes back and finds its culture media has been contaminated?

Still here, then, Trig?

Don't know about God, but someone seems to have performed a resurrection ...

Noggin

if God were like that everyone would win the lottery, and the next day a loaf of bread would be worth 1 million bucks.

Oh the irony! Douglas Adams was an atheist but interestingly I love reading his books (I have read all that I am aware of twice, aside from The Meaning Of Liff ) because of the spiritual nature of them, Like Dirk Gently's theory of interconnectedness. I am beginning to establish a theory myself that the fundamentalist Christian projection of God ironically slams shut the door to enlightenment causing a thinking society to shun the validity of a creator. Douglas Adams points to this human condition in The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul. How we create Gods then throw them out. The unfortunate circumstance in this debate is that every living being is only able to believe in anything as much as their life experience, up brining and openness of mind have allowed. Thus the saying with age comes wisdom. You don't read the story of the three little pigs and say "well, now we know that only one in three pigs knows how to build a decent house!" But that is exactly how most people read the bible. For instance It says "God said let there be light", light was created. The metaphor could be that (being made in his image making us creators as well) the things we say and think are powerful so use them wisely. Think about the metaphor. Not to mention that early societies have used "Religion" to control the masses with fear when it clearly states "do not fear". But metaphor is only understood by a mind that is ready for it. None of us are on the exact same page of life and none of us have definitive answers. Unfortunately though we do have an unfulfillable need to be right!

Paragraphs are quite useful, too...

This thread probably isn't where I first posted on h2g2, but it is where I was first immersed into the community. Yes, I'm still around.

I do think that religion is an endlessy fascinating construct, especially those religions which are centred more on practise than on belief. (They're not necessarily more interesting in principle, but they're more unusual to me, so I find them more interesting.)

TRiG.

Why is this thread appearing twice
in my conversations list? Same thread,
same number of postings (nearly 9000)

or should I be ASKing at FeedBack?

Please don't say yes because I will be
conflicted by overexposure to signs that
read Do Not Feed The Back.



Have to agree with Trig about the
>> endlessy fascinating construct <<


And want to acknowledge Bobonlynose's mention of
>> the fundamentalist Christian projection of God
ironically slam(ming) shut the door to enlightenment <<
by ASKing if you've ever considered the demographix
of the Christian Hell. Hitler would be there, but so would
the Jews. Along with Muslims, Mormons and Marmite.



~jwf~

9000???
More like 28,000.
My bad. The 9000 was the number of posts
since my last one.
Carry on.
See y'all again around 37,000 feet.


~jwf~

The double a`p`pearance of a`p`parently random threads in conversation lists is a re`ported bug, ~ jwf ~ (as are my errant a`p`postro`phes before '`p's [glass of bourbon s`pilled on keyboard]). I exp`ect this `particular bug is fairly far down the `priority list.

That's not an apostrophe: it's a backtick.

TRiG.

Did anyone see Andy Hamilton's 'Search for Satan' on BBC Four?

no, I've got that planned for tonights viewing - was it any good?

I'd not heard of that. I do love "Old Harry's Game", though.

TRiG.

'Doctors see 'screaming man' in testicle scan'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/11/02/tumour-testicle-face.html



'the doctors say they debated "whether the image could have been a sign from a deity" -- notably the Egyptian god of virility -- but quickly dismiss it as a coincidence.'

Looks a bit like that Martian Sphinx
from a few years back. Coincidence?

~jwf~

I thought it was great, what did you think of it? I recorded it so I can watch it again.