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

Member,

Justin also has not told us where we can get the God lottery tickets from . . . perhaps the same place we get the cars?

az

The lottery ticket is your life.

The car is the prize.

Everyone gets a ticket automatically.

Hardly anyone wins.

Nobody has any control over whether they win - it's random. Well... not random - God's whim. But since there's no way to know the mind of God, and since every other documented action of that entity is evil, capricious, and perverse, it might as well be random. In fact, I'd *prefer* to think it's random.

I'd hate to think that a so-called perfect being could conceive of any plan for the universe that would involve saving Justin. I'd rather his name was pulled out of a hat than actually selected on some sort of basis - any basis.

hi Member,

Well, for a so-called perfect being this God sure seems to make a lot of mistakes.

I can go along with you that the lottery ticket is our life - in fact, I quite like that analogy. But I think the car business is solely dependent on whether one actually believes they have one of these cars or not.

Happily, my god is not Justin's God, so I have no worries about burning in hell for all eternity. Nor do I believe that I am scum and a horrible person just because I happened to be born. As I have said here before, I live in god every day. I follow Christ's golden rule although I don't embrace Christ as my personal saviour. I just happen to like this particular rule that has been proclaimed by many other spiritual figures (Buddah for one) as it seems a healthy way to live one's life.

I still wonder if Mother Teresa ever got a car. Though personally, I don't think she ever needed one.

az

What car are you talking about?