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

I liked it a lot.

Especially the squirrel.

was that with chips and a side salad ?

Only if you didn't want the standard version, which is a burrito.

I can just see "squirrel on a stick"

There is a traditional Scottish derived recipe for a bread pudding, half an inch of oats or corn meal or an inch of turkey dressing in the bottom of the roasting pan, cover with dressed squirrel parts, cover with breadstuffs, add sufficient water to cover (at least 2 cups of water per cup of meal), cover roasting pan with aluminum foil, place lid on roasting pan and bake at the lowest possible oven heat until all the meat falls off the bones. This leaves you with a rather grisly looking prospect of little bones sticking out every which way. If you've followed directions, the gelatine will have all cooked out of the bones and they'll be as soft and spreadable as butter. Recipe also works for chicken or fish. It really is traditional.

Kentucky fried is better.

The Kentuckians are quite good at cooking squirrels.

They evolved a technique for shooting the squirrel called 'barking' the squirrel in order to avoid spoiling the meat, shooting at a location immediately next to the squirrel rather than directly at it, in order to stun it and knock it from the tree.

Life!
some might class it as a natural flowing form of part of the universe.
Some might class it as a test by a superior being (thought fictitious by many including me) leading to a higher intellectual plane of existence.
Some might class it as a form of punishment from a past plane of existence. (thought fictitious by many including me) leading to another higher intellectual plane of existence.
Some might class it as a joke. (thought a fact by many including me)
From the day that "human" life came to a level of intelligence to be able think/talk/reason (some are STILL trying) and every other aspect of mankind, good or bad. Millions upon millions have offered they're own theory/opinion etc etc etc
and even came to one answer of 42
BUT life has still yet to be defined as to why it's here, it's ultimate beginnings, it's ultimate purpose and it's ultimate end.

Until then - say sod it and keep treating it as a joke, have fun from birth to death - that's the best achievement and legacy to leave each and every following generation

The is THE MAN!

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

SO! god was a the only species on this planet that look the same, no matter where on the planet they are and have done since they came into being

Well! that fictitious being is now long overdue, all the trouble in the world and most of it caused by religion - err believing in "him" or look-a-likes ain't about time he showed up and put things rait

a certain religion had him down as a second coming in the year 2000 they soon changed their "format" shortly after

from the time of Prehistoric man and Neanderthal man etc on this planet, "we" have had and still do have "gods". Covering everything from the sun, moon, land and seas and most of mankind's bits fertility/war/strength amongst many others.
Now each of the "god/s" to each of the cultures and ages were real at the times and you couldn't call anyone liars for their beliefs and I wouldn't. But mankind's "gods" have sort of being shown not to be "real" and portrait in many ways in films, books and on tv etc. So! how many "gods" are there ? some belive only one, as theirs is the only true "god" and again, I will not call them liars.
But! in a few hundred years or more to come, the "gods" of today will have gone the same way, as "new" societies throughout the world will be formed by the outcome of future wars, either by chemical or bacterial or conventional weapons.
"gods" have never existed anywhere in the known universe, mankind thought them up and cashed in from the stories built up over the ages.

How could any "god/s" allow "his" followers to cause cruelty and the indiscriminate killing of "his" own creations - SO!!!! why haven't "they" come back to "re-teach" mankind ? EASY! they can't, because don't exist!

many societies have laws about blaspheming ? I am an atheist, how can I blaspheme against something that doesn't exist ????

I respect all non violent believers of their faiths of course

and read post number one! before casting any judgement

I do not insult people for their own beliefs...

Well, we (or some of us) NEED gods, eh? Otherwise it's all just too much to take in.

Yeah, it's evolution. Simples, eh?

...and sometimes, a God seems rather less unlikely than the whole panoply of what I've been taught, what I've learned since and what I've tried to rationalise from it all...

some written scriptures say that "god" forgives everyone of all sins etc ?

but in that case, why does "mankind" still depict the as a baddie ? surely he was forgiven as soon as he fell from grace ?

I was "brought" up a christian and "technically brainwashed" into that theorem. But over the centuries, "mankind" has learnt to think for himself and ask questions involving the faiths of the world. Individual judgement is now an open subject, to what you've been taught and what you think yourself - at the end of the day! it's still 6 of 1 and half dozen of the other = is there a "god/s" or isn't there

again! no disrespect you anyone

>>Is there a god/s or isn't there?<< : Prof

If you want 'em, help yourself, but not for me.
I don't know where the world came from, where the solar system came from, the galaxy, other galaxies, what we call 'the universe' ... Creation ...
From what I've seen, heard, learned, neither does anyone else - and it seems to me that God is one way out of this essentially helpless state of mind (another is drink - but that doesn't suit either). It also seems to me that gods are the easy way out.

On the other hand, given that we live in this little lot then 'life' I can see, and like to think I've got a handle on it ... Evolution.

there's no gods of any description. (not to me - only my opinion)

from 1st of mankind there's been a "god/s" for everything, sun/moon/sea/ground/crops and the endless that followed

a "figure" to blame for bad events and to good storytellers

as of post one and only my opinion..

Genesis 1:27 - So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.

So why are people born with physical disabilities (to name many disabilities) surely a "god" would correct his/hers mistakes if they were the all powerful and creator of everything ?

faults in DNA can't be used as a answer, because DNA is only a modern knowledge.

>> because DNA is only a modern knowledge<< : Prof

Modern knowledge - yes the 'knowledge' may be new to us - but what did the job before?