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

Hmm, yeah.
The fact that my exams start on the 3rd means that it's just one day closer to them...
So not that exciting really.
Well, maybe a little.

c'mon now, lets show some enthusiasm! We share a BIRTHDAY!

DZ

Dear Dazza, you have a famous namesake here in OZ, a 70's rockstar with satin pants, a great falsetto and a thing about cricket. My partner, who is a huge fan, says this,(the cricket), is probably why he is divorced, but I think she still can't get over her teenage seat wetting and hopes she still might meet him and drive him into a frenzy of middle aged desire ... He was considered, in his time, to be quite a SPUNK and a romantic song writer too. here is some of his better work.

"Howzat? You messed about
I caught you out , Howzat?"

"Summer love, it's like no other love, OOOh Yeahhair"

Not bad huh? Seriously though, I 'spose I should demonstrate some ability to extract meaning out of a text if I am to be given free reign to drop pithy sentences about willy nilly, so here goes-

"If with the literate I am
Impelled to try an epigram
I never seek to
take the credit
We all assume that
Oscar said it."

Dorothy Parker

eggs
rosi

Very nice rosi--I haven't time to add you just now, but It'll get done today, I promise!!! Thanks!

I'm 17 now!!!!!!!!!!!

DZ

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATIE, oops I mean Darth!!! Oh and welcome rosi. I can't believe you beat me here!!!
Chauncey

Happy birthday Dazza,and remember-

"Most people are other people
Thier thoughts are someone else's
opinions,thier lives a mimicry,thier
passions a quotation."

That really was Oscar

eggs mon
rosi

Oh and Darth when you get around to adding rosi, change pedbot's name to pedboy! We got it wrong and I feel bad, so change it!!!
Chauncey

Oooh, mistakes.

What is the punishment for getting a quote wrong?

Ok...Pedboy...I can remember that...thanks Chauncey

as for a wrong quote...um...ten lashes hehe! I dunno...I think the personal shame and humiliation is punishment enough

DZ

My two quotes for the day:

"At present we educate people up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit has been acquired..... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their lives in complete ignorance of the most important things." -- Carl Jung

"Dear Lord, if you spare this town from becoming a smoking hole in the ground, I'll try to be a better Christian. I don't know what I can do.... Mmm.... Oh! The next time there's a canned food drive, I'll give the poor something they'll actually like instead of old lima beans and pumpkin pie mix." -- Marge Simpson

Nice quotes!!
Chauncey

On going to war over religion:
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better
imaginary friend." --Rich Jeni (I have no idea who this is, but I love the quote...)

"Thank God for atheism." -- Anon.

"And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of
the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords" -- Alan Wilson Watts

"If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining." -- Anon.

Hmnm, now how can we best be entertaining?

Apparently God would be tickled if we demonstrated our fear and awe of his greatness and benenolence by committing as many acts as posssible of violent retribution upon those who would deny his greatness and spurn his holy love,( as if he doesn't plan on subjecting them to an eternal afterlife of misery anyway), and also a bit of bloody sacrifice and hienous self inflicted suffering on the part of such martyrs as he may inspire just to make all the rest of us feel guilty. And what for ?? So we can all experience the bliss of witnessing his almighty countenace?

I think I will be happier to entertain those amongst us of an ephemeral nature.
don't know what happened there, I must be

rosi

I'd rather spend an eternity in Hell than spend a split second in Heaven with all those people who are so sure they are going to be there. -- Me

That is a rather odd quote Mudhook, but I suppose that is your own choice. Darth you need to add dancinglady to the RQG list. You must have forgotten her, because she has been accepted!!!
Chauncey

Well, it is my reaction to all the holier-than-thou folks who, on one hand, profess to be "good" Christians (or other religions), and, on the other, call down Damnation on others because of their color or sexual orientation or politcal beliefs or philosophy or even the branch or Christianity (or other religion).

I would rather spend my time with the people that the holier-than-thous think are going to hell, than with the holier-than-thous....

Not all christians are like that. Most "true" christians accept people as they are. I am a christian and I realize at times I can be judgemental and selfish, but I try my best to be accepting and to help others. Christians are not perfect and though some are very hypocritical, others aren't. I don't mean to "preach" at you, it just bothers me when people think that all christians think that way.
Chauncey

"Here's an idea or a notion that you are not allowed to say anything bad about;you're just not.Why not? Because you're not!" -DNA

What is "true" christian? This seems unacceptably subjective taking into consideration that religion's bloody history of persecution of unbelievers and heretics, and even the terrible conflicts between seemingly compatible sects;this goes on right up to the present, Northern Ireland being a case in point.

I am not suggesting that christians are all out there baying for their fellow man's blood ,nor are christians a bunch of fanatical murderers. I was raised in a christain family and they are mostly open, caring, and compassionate .Being christains ,however, they have a somewhat skewed concept of truth.

" In the years I'd spent learning history, physics, Latin, math, I'd learnt (the hard way) something about standards of argument, standards of proof, standards of logic, etc. In fact we had just been learning to spot different types of logical fallacy, and it suddenly became apparent to me that these standards did not seem to apply in religious matters. In religious education we were asked to listen respectfully to arguments that, if they had been put forward in support of a view....would have been laughed at as foolish and childish, and in terms of logic and proof -just plain wrong."

and further "... the arguments in favour of religious ideas were so feeble and silly next to the robust arguments of something as interpetive and opinionated as history....They were never subject to the kind of outright challenge which was the normal stock in trade of any other intellectual endevour whatsoever." DNA

Adams believed that our inability to question the sacred and holy ideas at the centre of religious belief, indeed our practice of having respect for others' irrational beliefs and our strong defence of peoples' right to hold them, are mostly a thing of cultural habit and came about because we have become afraid of the powerful responses that emerge when such socially ingrained ideas are challenged.

I beleive that the ethic of compassion ,justice,co-operation,fair play and common decency has evolved to the extent it has in human societies because it is the most effective way of us co-existing and living happy lives and resolving conflicts peacfully.

The practice of questioning irrational beliefs can only lead to better understanding

here is a quote from a famous present day flat earther

"We will export terror to all four corners of the world."
George W Bush