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

Ed: No speaking Quebecois here!

Dogster: Do you think it could be that we all have a pretty good idea of what would go into the mix to give us eternal ecstacy while we don't really want to think about the brutal eternal torment that is offered as an alternative to belief?

I'd go for the bliss, myself, but I couldn't really buy the hell scenario, so wouldn't take it all that seriously.

ecstasy

>>Do you think it could be that we all have a pretty good idea of what would go into the mix to give us eternal ecstacy

A beer volcano and a Stripper Factory.

Rrrrrrr!

Vicky,

'Massive puzzlement! What on earth do you mean about Germans? (I was engaged to a German, and have known 100s of them...)'

You frequently referred to Prof Dawkins as 'Herr Dawkins'. When I asked why, since he's not German, you said "it's a reference to his slightly hysterical and hectoring tone." (your post 6415). If you mean something by that other than 'Germans have a slightly hysterical and hectoring tone', please explain what.



'As for your admission, it was in a conversation you were having with someone, where you admitted that your pretended confusion about which were the real commandments, was simply to anger faith-heads...'

Ah yes, the good old 'someone said something somewhere sometime to someone' reference. Please point to anywhere I have used the term 'faith-heads' or said I was deliberately trying to anger believers, or that there are not genuinely 2 totally different sets of Ten Commandments in the Bible. Alternatively, if I actually said something more like 'one set is widely accepted and the other isn't', please post an apology for repeatedly slandering me.



'I am all in favour of promoting reason'

You're getting my medical bill for the results of reading that.



"when men cease to believe in God, the danger is not that they will believe in nothing but that they will believe in anything."

Chesterton was exactly wrong. Belief in all those things is statistically more common among theists.



By the way, here's a lengthy link that seems tangentially relevant to the debate but which I'm not going to explain but will later insist proved something it doesn't say and then use to claim that anyone who didn't read the whole thing is ignoring me: A509690

Gif

>>please post an apology for repeatedly slandering me.


Shouldn't that be 'libeling'

(Although in my jurisdiction, both slander and libel are 'defamation'.)



A quote I heard on R4 earlier:

"Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now."

Arthur C Clarke - 'Childhood's End'

www.fstdt.com

I was just wondering - anybody got any potential quotes from this site?

Gif

No...but I've just come across a couple of pages of Christian quotes in support of Hitler.

http://atheism.about.com/od/adolfhitlernazigermany/tp/NaziChristiansGermany.htm

I like this one:

"I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. My son is only 16 and I really don't think he's ready to date yet. What's worse is that he's sneaking some girl to his room behind my back. I need help, God! I want my son to stop being so secretive! "

On the Christian Nazi quote link (gee, I never thought I would type that sentence) it's a nifty little thought experiment to replace *Germany*, *Nazi*, *Hitler* and *Jew* with *America*, *Republican Party*, *Bush* and *(Muslim) Terrorists* respectively.

Then they start to sound like modern press releases.

I once backed into a department store mannequin and said 'excuse me' then waited for her to say 'no, that's all right, it's my fault' When she didn't say anything I thought 'Can't be American, she didn't say 'f*ck yu''

I know I'm truly Canadian.

Gif:

Give it up...in a moment you will be accused of "horrible schoolyard bullying".

I can assure you that she won't respond in any substantial way to what you've posted.

Ed:

Supermodel Island It really exists, you know, and I'm going there when I die!

As Canadian as a Nanaimo Bar!

I like the comedian who says 'You know, strictly speaking, zero is a number. I have, in fact, had sex with a number of Supermodels'

And a significant number, too!

My favouite fstdt quote:

*Jesus is not a Jew. Jesus was Jewish.*

Now I know where Bill Hicks got his material...

Do you suppose the switch in tenses suggests that Jesus does not live on?

Try the lolcat Bible.

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Job_1

TRiG.

About as profound and useful as any other translation I've seen, although it lacks some of the flights of metaphorical whimsy contained in Jacobean take on those old folk tales...

Curse on you, Gif! These quotes are really a disgrace to humanity

http://fstdt.com/fundies/top100.aspx?archive=1

(But really, are these real quotes? They just look all made up! Is it people playing that game where you're supposed to post on the internet some statement so stupid that everybody will know for sure that you are joking?)

Toy Box:

I followed some of the links and, yes; they're genuine. They come from various christian groups' websites and chatrooms. It's absolutely terrifying that those vicious, hateridden, profoundly ignorant (and proud of it) buffoons are a political force in the west.

I stated elsewhere (or someone did)that as soon as someone announces that he or she is a committed christian, it's time to start counting your silverware and sending the children to visit the neighbours. If anyone has a hard time understanding why rational people can't accept the rhetoric of "christian morality" or feel that christians can't be trusted, just check out a few of those sites and see the level of sheer, willful, stupidity and intolerance that typifies the self-professed christians.

This is not intended to offend anyone. It is a warning that those people are dangerous to society, to democracy, to scholarship, and to any real human values.