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

It's been so long since I read the bibles. I printed up about 40 pages of area history for the train ride home. This glossed over a few thousand years slightly preceding Abraham. Ok, lightly glossed. Mankind was pretty nasty in general. What a long, strange trip it's been.

Well Jordan, thanx for the advice but I find that I perfer things with a little more stubility. Such as, theater, the universe, or my life. No offense to you of course. I simply think that religon is.............. Mildy amusing.


Joe_42

No problem, Joe. I'm not asking for you to believe, just trying to explain why *other* people believe. :D

I generally don't find the serious beliefs of most people over twenty very "amusing"—including yours. Anything which powerfully affects someone's mind is a very serious business, which is why I take pains to understand what people think and why they think them.

- Jordan

Gah!!! :D =

god is a concept by which we measure our pain

The gods are the means by which I measure my ecstasy.

Just thought I'd put in the other point of view...

Jez

jumpin jehozaphat! dunnae ferget Bacchaus

< I simply think that religon is.............. Mildy amusing.>

I thought it was funny how the different versions of the NT were adjusted to suit the wants of the people when they found they didn't agree with their old religion. Strange how the different offshoots of catholicism change the rules differently than the varaitions on Judaism, where it seems that the rules are the same but adherence varies. It's also amusing that all these religions are based on the writings of men, such as the Scientology stuff by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. I have problems with people who can't use their first name, not with a scifi writer creating a religion-as I've stated before I think the Five Books of Adams [the Hitchhiker's series] offers a more plausible explanation for why we're here than any version of the bible or koran I've read. And Douglas never claimed to have been spoken to by any god that I know of. Those of the Abrahamic faiths would do well to read about the history of their religions, specifically about how violence based on conflicting beliefs has caused so many millions of deaths all over the world.

Exactly! If [and this is my opinoin] you were to go back in time and make all religion dissapear the world would be a much better place! It's so sad to see so many lives wasted over something such as religon ie: the gaza strip.


Joe_42

y was the tsunami in asia then?

Tectonics. Basically, when continents do this:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html

If you think about the appropriate scales - very slow, but very very heavy with rock crushing momentum - I'm sure you can imagine the sorts of effects it can have.

Sorry it's off-topic, but I seem to recall a reference a long time ago on this thread to "Suphur Outflow 16" or something like that. Unfortunately the search a conversation feature doesn't seem to work. Anyone have any idea what it was called specifically or around what post number I should be looking for?

You should probably ask Math, RDO. If he can't find the post number for you I'm sure he will be happy to explain what it's all about (I think it was Sulphur Outflow 4 . . .)


az

good advice az

Shouldn't it be SU{L}PHER? I might be mistaken though...


J-42

sorry az, didn't see you had the [L] in sulpher. Didn't know if there was a substance called supher.


J-42

Maybe he got tele-kinetically slapped. Who knows. I Think Edgar Cayce had a similar situation occur during his carreer once. Had to do with how much of sub-consciously influencing someone else was too much or unfair, as he was concerned, or the like...

What the -itah is going on now?
The whole forum thread just jumped 1/2 a page down or so (by itself?). It wasn't me. maybe there is some kind of web . Why are people s'pposed to be scared of s? Can they posseess folks too? I'm a bit superstitious, but I'm not afraid. Maybe that's 'cuz I've probably never met one. Kind of hard to tell if a person has ever "seen" one too. No two cultures or even parts within the same culture always completely agrees on what spirits are supposed to look like. i wonder why that is...

"Why are people s'pposed to be scared of ghosts?"

The most recent answer is that the Christian church told them to be. However, certain fears go back longer. People have pacified ghosts because they believed that strong people became strong spirits and, if they were the sort of person who, in life, was known as the neighbour from hell - then they'd be the same once they were dead. so you brought them food and drink.

The dead lived in their burial mounds, or in their graves. In very many countries in parts of Eastern Europe, Latin America etc, the cemetaries are full of houses for the dead, or life size statues, and there are days set apart in the calendar (as well as more private occasions) when the living take food and spread out feasts in the graveyard and sit with their families so both the living and the dead can enjoy the feast.
Outside of feast days, the living would go to the dead for advice about the farm, or the family.

It was the Christian church in Europe that wished to destroy ancestor veneration and so they created the myth of the mindless, unpleasant ghost, and switched ancestor veneration to that of the holy dead - saints.

there was a substance called brimstone