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

dubya is stupid. in fact "w" is stupid.
"www" takes longer to say than world wide web. and when you say it a lot you've got to shorten it.
And we sat "george w. bush" a lot, so much I think that we try to change the pronunctuation...
anyway...

the maning of life is nothing, at least nothing more than anything else, if you just view it as an intricate combination of chemistry and physics.

It's a Texan mispronounciation, but it may be common throughout the South; I don't know.

How do Britons pronounce "W"?

How many times must I attemt to demostrate never to jump to assumptions!

What's this "just" that I keep on seeing? We're "just" automata, life is "just" chemistry and physics, et cetera et cetera.

Life is an huge improbability, but it's here and we can enjoy it. I don't think there's anything insignificant about that.

"Doubleyoow"

Man, this thread is fast tonight.
Roadkill
Another assumption, I'm afraid, that your view is correct.
If you see the flaw there, the solution is: I'm happy to be a hypocrite

Amazing--four posts on the same subject in four minutes!

considering how big the universe maybe even these big improbabilities are could happen... and they did...

really thoguh everything's improbably compared to all teh other improbable things, of which there are really a lot...

more like 10 in 10 minutes...

Of course it's an assumption my view is correct. If I didn't think my views were correct, why would I hold them?

Anyway, the reason I was getting at "just" was because so many people say they find comfort in God. I'm trying to remove the sense of disquiet people may feel at my view.

Roadkill m'led
Because you're stuck in the same {foolish} mindframe that traps most domesticated primates.
I personally prefer to remain agnostic about these things, ajudgemental, especially since it remains yet to be proven if the universe really is as big as we think. Two different scientific teams have announced their results recently; the first says that, yup, it's pretty big, and the second says that the universe is just like a hypersphere, or a hall of mirrors, and it's really tiny but we could just keep going forever.
Keep up the fast work, people...

Ah, you mean narrowmindedness.

Where did I say that my beliefs weren't open to correction? I can't claim my beliefs are Gospel (hah!) truth, but for complete openmindedness try gullibility.

Gullibility? I've heard that thought before, and I still think that it's rather stupid.
Being openminded allows scepticism; total openmindedness, at least in my case, involves me being equally sceptical of every reality-frame or belief - /especially my own/.

The only difference between open and narrow mindedness is the amount of scepticism. If you are narrow minded you are so skeptical that you simply discount any idea that you don't agree with. An open minded person however will be less sceptical either to the point that they accept everything (gullible) or to the point where they consider everything.

:me being equally sceptical of every reality-frame or belief
: - /especially my own/

Hmmm.... you are more equally skeptical of your own ideas than others?

I'm open to new ideas. Doesn't mean I believe them all, of course. I'll give them consideration. And if I believe that something I believe, in light of this new idea, after full examination, negates something or makes it less likely than an alternative, I'll incorporate that.into my belief system.

The reason I hold the beliefs I do is because I have been, and still am, hard on them.

And as a result, I believe them to be correct. For the moment. Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Dogma's book, where it said that beliefs about things metaphysical were a bad idea. Instead, one should have ideas. Beliefs are hard to change. people modify ideas all the time.

I believe my ideas to correct. What of it? It doesn't make me narrowminded.

I'm still confused how you got from

"I believe my ideas to be correct to"

"I will reject out of hand anything that does not conform to my belief system, because these ideas are so obviously correct, because I said so, and I like them, so there." (not actually a quote but that's what I got of your impression of me from your post).

Please explain yourself, I'm not a little bit annoyed.

If through the making of mistakes we are given the oppertunity be reborn and so grow towards nirvana, human beings will be reborn until we destroy our planet.

We are given an oppertunity to learn but the minority in power do not want the status quo to change. And as such teach us to think that we cannot change a thing.

As I have posted previousally if all that is input into your brain is mush, then all that will be output from your brain is the vomit of mush. Thinking is not bad for you, the inforation that we are given to think with is.

I don't think you know the meaning of life when you are 42. I know people who are over 42, and I really doubt they know the meaning of life. Personally, I dunno what the meaning of life is. I don't even care. But I don't think the meaning of life is homework. * glares at various homework-giving teachers* Maybe it's to play Final Fantasy? Well, whatever it is, I don't know it. I could be 42.

No, the answer is just plain 42. Nothing about length or anything, nothing about age. Just plain 42 and nothing else

N1NJ4
Hey, haven't seen you for a while.
I only put that in because people tend to assume that scepticism of beliefs does not involve one's current believes, so I have to stress that I am particularly strenuous about testing my own beliefs as much as others.
Roadkill
Ideas become beliefs if you don't change them often enough. Same with clothes and grubby.
I agree with you about the gist of N1NJ4's post.
Might not post for a while, since I had a fight with the rents and am banned for a month or so.

hi N1NJ4,

just saying hello! long time no see and all that. otherwise, nothing else to add to this thread at the moment.

az