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

Sorry for calling it a crack and thanks, and my only other source than the one you give on Baha'i (The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions) gives what actually looks like a definitive list of their Manifestations of God: "Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, the Bab, and for the present age, Baha'u'llah." I don't know how to read the statement that there is no definitive list (in wikipedia) and this without more information.

Hi TRiG,

Yes new here. I realised after reading a lot of posts where the names didn't match that people were in fancy dress for Halloween. Mostly anagrams? Anyhoo. I certainly picked a big discussion to start with. Atheism/religion discussions are always going to be unrewarding because people have already decided. Unfortunately, political discourse seems to be going the same way. The stuff about libertarianism was interesting(still ain't read it all), but at no point do you feel that someone is going to say "Hmm, you've got a point there. Perhaps I'll go and rethink my opinions". When did changing your mind suddenly become seen as a sign of weakness?
Re. Julesz. Seeing patterns is one of the greatest things about the human brain. But you need to keep it under control.
Thanks for saying hello. I'm sure I'll see you around.

Mine is an anagram - the solution is on my personal space.

Thought so.

My anagram of Julzes however was unintentional. Apologies

"needing physics' ire"

Best I could manage.

I is needing cyphers.

Bah.

Springy cheese dinners.

I know.

No problem, hd, if I may abbreviate. (We do that a lot around here, and it's mostly intended well, though someone who should have been KZ got called KY by some who did not like his homophobia).

Headache's gone (the simple cure of aspirin), so I will agree that finding patterns can often lead people astray. Generally, though, I'm not going to try to resolve these issues here till tomorrow night.

Suljez? Eszulj? Sezluj! (Since they're all nonsense, I may as well just reverse.)

No, I think Xiory is better (the omitted letters in reverse).

Heck, as someone whose parents landed him with the name "hygienicdispenser", I'm perfectly happy to be abbreviated.

Xi roy

you say its all linked to 365.25, but when the god alien created life on earth all that time ago the planet was moving at a different speed, the world is slowing down, the dinosaurs had 21 hour days so a year was 417.42, so was it all a plan to come to fruition now????

billion year planning???????

I don't see why not. It's more consistent with the evidence than no planning at all. We're not exasctly a species that shows itself very attuned to the notion of long-term planning, but I personally have tried in my own semi-delusional way to plan pretty far ahead; and I can say that it *seems* that the more one practices it, the more success and the better and further one would be doing it. Just imagine a computer the size of Britain doing it--something like that.

Let me clarify also that I imagine an adaptive planning system, not a full-precision operation. Just enough to get the story going right. I think we might even make Jurasic Park out of Mars some day, but that little fantasy is at the real extreme of my thinking, and has no place for full discussion here. Let's just say I seemed to mediate a statement sheet that said that more-or-less, when I really was rather ill, unlike now.

you got shirty with me calling you dellusional, and challenged me on it yet here you are addmitting it..........WTF?

<< I think we might even make Jurasic Park out of Mars some day,>>

so we have to preserve the earth for the future, yet the expolitation of another world for our own greed is fine with you????

Well, I don't know about exploiting Mars for greed. I didn't see the movie "Jurassic Park". I'm talking about the possibility that some dnosaurs may have been preserved by what you call these god-aliens, and we can terraform the planet so they have a home. You get the idea now, and this stuff is *really* loony, so I'm not talking about it now or very much in my book. Too speculative, not relevant to the near-future.

I haven't been delusional with you here, so I had the right to be "shirty".