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

Fridges are good. They keep chocolate nice and hard

Yeah but only if if y'keep 'em closed. Hard chockies depend on a closed fridge system.
I keep opening mine. Open,close. Open,close. Does the light really go out? Or does it hide at the end of a tunnel?
Actually, I heard they were gonna turn that one off as a cost-cutting measure.

I just read thru all 142 postings, and I kept getting this image of god (looking like Gerry Garcia in a white robe) reading this and laughing like mad. “Oh my! That is a good one. Verey funny.”

why did my quotation marks turn in to “ ?

Dunno. What OS, web browser, keyboard layout and code page are you using?

That may well be god's little way of moderating a supposed quote.
You just can't go around saying god said this and god said that. I suppose it's possible that god was laughing all along, lurking as usual, having a right chuckle at our expense. But when some 'wacco' comes along and starts 'quoting', well, a foot needs putting down somewhere, or any old nutter might come along willy-nilly and attribute all-sorts to having been said by the supreme being. They could fill a book with all the things people say god said.

Yep, the more I think about it that -&#8220- looks like god's work. Very similar to the gibberish he had us spouting at the tower of babble that time.

God, I hate Mondays. Anyone keen to ban the f*****s? Or failing that, is there an anti-Monday sect I can join? Or should I just shut-up and look forward to Tuesday?

It's a funny old month this May ..or it's a funny old May this month.
Y'got a full moon on the first Monday the 7th. The next Monday (14th) was Bank Holiday in the UK, today (21st) is Victoria Day Holiday in Canada and next Monday (28th) is Memorial Day in the US (and the running of the Indianapolis 500).

There was an anti-monday league here-abouts, got absorbed by the committee to change Thursday to Thing (known as the Thing-ites) when the Thingies agreed to also change Monday to Sodit. They have plans to revise the entire week actually. Try searching 'thingites'.

Nothing bloody funny about this month jwf. Think 'll listen to Desolation Row (again!!!) to cheer myself up. In fact I've gone some way to doing that already by ma*ing a b*tch of ho*e br*w.
All those *s are what happens when you spend too long online with Asterix the Gaul otherwise know as B*n.
Catching!!!
Now the theraputic effects of drinking beer (in moderation) is something I truly believe in.

Everyone in the world is going to die at some point. It's just my hope we don't all die at the same time. (Not that it would matter to me much if we did). Anyway, back to the point...uh...yes, I do believe in an afterlife - In my opinion if we die *something* must happen - I don't think all our experiences go to waste, If you think of the brain as some sort of receiver for the 'soul' or whatever, when the brain dies with the body the signal (soul, whatever) is released. ah well, we'll all find out one day. Roll on death.

I don't believe in death.
Therefore I won't die.
QED....or should I give it more time do you think?

More time.

More think.

More

Sound advice. Thanks. Personally I'm going to give it more

I prefer .

* eats *

Doh! Leave it to me to be offline when a really interesting thread opens up. I just read the backlog - wow! But now it looks like you guys got all tuckered out from racking your brains and have gone all silly on me.
Oh well, I just spent an hour reading all this. I have been thinking about it and looking forward to having my say when I got to the end so I am not going to be put off by frivolity and chocolate. This is a serious issue and I have very strong feeling on the subject and I'm .... what kind of chocolate is that?

Truth to tell I'm an atheist. When you're dead you're dead. If I didn't believe that I would still have my parents living with me!

hm. I consider myself an atheist, too. But recently I realised that I urgently NEEDED a concept of 'the energy is not lost after death - it transforms to something else'. without a picture of an afterlife as such.

Even if it turns out not to be true at all - it takes some of the weight off the idea of everybody having to die some day.

Well I've had more *time*, more *think* and most definitely more ** and I positively refuse to curl up my toes at some future date. Haven't you lot heard of the power of positive thought? Didn't some Americans gather round the White House a few years ago and levitate the bloody thing?
~ Amen ~