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

Scientifically speaking, you cannot prove a negative. You cannot prove that there is no god. To cite an example, you cannot prove the earth is not flat—you CAN prove that the earth is roundish, proving a positive as “the earth is round(ish), therefore it cannot be flat”. Therefore, to disprove God’s existence, you must prove something that negates god.

Good luck.

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Why does nobody talk about the Goddess anymore?

What's the Goddess and why should we be talking about it

Ste

I don't rightly know.
I don't wrongly know, either.

Blows raspberries!

The Goddess is what you are standing on, and don't be smart and tell me you are standing on the carpet!

What? The Goddess is a piece of chewing-gum?

Are you talking about Gaia, or some neo-pagan thing?

Who stands up when there on their computer anyway?

Yeah, sounds like Gaia.
One theory about God is that he was created by humans to fulfill their desire to be watched - I'm lifting this from Deus Ex BTW - , and these days the government does this for us, resulting in the reduced popularity of religon. Various other people have suggested that God was created by humans for other reasons. Does this prove that God or Allah, Ganesh etc. don't exist? Well people have proved that much can be done with the power of beleif and people ofte beleive in gods very strongly - who's to say that humans haven't actually created god...

>Last year the Pope announced that Heaven and Hell do not exist - they are states of mind... which, of course, raises the question: where do God and Satan live nowadays?



Harking back to this earlier conversation, doesn't it follow that God and Satan exist only in the mind...

-Gaia, Artemis, Rhiannon, Brighid, Hecate, etc. All valid.

-So is it only the FundaMentalists that believe in Heaven and Hell now? I thought only the CofE had booted that concept... if the Catholics no longer support it either, that makes a lot of difference.

Hi Mandragora, I feel that the Goddess encompasses all of those names.

When you get in touch with nature, it is quite obvious which is the Godess energy and which is the God energy, as a pagan I guess I sound as nutty as a christian to some people. But I don't preach exclusion, I preach inclusion, and respect. Thats the Goddess.

OK here I go.
First buy an A4 envelope from the post office and a blank piece of A4 paper. Write on the paper an invitation to God to a fantastic party in his honour. Slip the paper into the envelope and seal it. Address the envelope to God, Heaven and write an apology on the bottom to the postman for not knowing the postal/zip code. Drop it into a mailbox. Obviously make sure that you have arranged the party first.
On the day of the party announce to the party goers that you are holding it in God's honour and expect him to show up. Then you just wait.
If he doesn't show up you can draw your own conclusions. If he does then, as anyone that sees God is supposed to die then it won't matter much as there will be no witnesses. So maybe it would be a brilliant idea to invite the whole world to the party. That way we could settle it once and for all.

All that the bible ever says that God wants is everyone to praise him. So if he didn't show up to a party where everyone wanted to honour him then he'd be a pretty unappreciative God anyway.

How shallow of him!

wouldn't any of us, as supreme being, prefer something like a)chocolate tithe, or magnaminous stuff like praising your fellow folk?

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"God sees everything you do"
"No, you're thinking of Santa"

I heard this very recently but can't remember where from.

What an abyssmal addition to the thread.

Liam.