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

Good luck with that.

Yes, I have a few textbooks like that. It's ticking along nicely, something about the Gettier example, tracking the truth, and then WHAM! JESUS! leaps out of the page at you. Not nice, ruins the train of thought.

Can they not handle you not being Christian?

goddamn...so much work...i shouldn't even be on the net. i have three tests to be studying for, a prac to write up and a creative task to bullshit!!! sorry...

i dunno. i think they've dealt with it now. they have tried and failed to convert me on numerous occasions, so now they just silently loathe every fibre of my being. oh well

are you religious in any form?

I'm an atheist. That having been said, largely my agreement with God and his people goes like this: you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone. I have tried to be converted on several occasions, but there are several tactics that can quickly make them lose interest. And I also have buddhist streaks, largely because I like the idea of meditation and also because they seem to be hoopy froods.

Good luck with your work.

ah...I C.
i would love to leave the religious people alone and have them leave me alone, but i go to a church school. and there's a pair of crazy jehovah's witnesses, who must live nearby, who know my name and come around every few weeks asking if i would like to find god. perhaps i should ask them if they would like to find something better to do with their time...
buddhism is pretty damn cool, except the whole, insects-could-be-your-dead-uncle thing. makes you pretty stressed about standing on ants...

Technically I go to a religious school, there are prayers and hymns and stuff (incidentally you can find the phrase "rock on" on a hymn, though far removed from the context you'd expect) but the chaplain's unorthodox, to say the least.

Yeah reincarnation is hard to swallow for me too. You could try the old "Tell you what, don't call me, I'll call you" line? Or that currently you can't see the God for the angels.

really? well our chaplain has somewhat revolutionised the school's approach to religion, in that we have to pray before we even go to the frigging toilet now. reminds me eerily of the pledges of allegiance in "Catch 22". the guy's a freak.

perhaps i should just tell them that i had already found MY god, and that he is somewhat reminiscent of satan. then propose a spontaneous human sacrifice and look expectantly at them.

Our chaplain was accused of "high- tech blasphemy" by Anne Widdecombe (politicienne). Plus he gave an assembly on Jedi, and is technically agnostic. He's a rocking bloke.

Tell them you worship Pan, the guy that witches used to worship. He always gets confused with the devil. Plays the pipes- hence pan pipes.

sounds like a cool frood.

pan, eh? an interesting idea...

well. i finished all my work. actually, i'm on holidays at the moment. YAY .

how goes things in the world of roadkill?

There's a whole load of Gods I bet I could trawl up on demand. Heck you could even make a few up yourself.

I've got lots of work. I'm not on holidays, but I will be in three weeks. As for the rest of my life, well I just met a bassist, which means a band should be not far off, as drummers are thick on the ground. I'm still single and increasingly weary of it, but this will provide creative energy for aforementioned band. And friends are being ok as well.

i'm sorry. you probly think i'm dead or something. (and you wouldn't be far off, either). im not. i have just had a TON of work to do. and the h2g2 went all random on me and it's taken me three days to log on...
i take it you play the guitar? cool...band... i'd like to join a band, but i only play the piano, so i'm kinda stuffed.
ah yes , i'm also single. doesn't bother me too much. too much schoolwork to care. but yes, should provide much inspiration. (i would put a smiley here, but i can't...)
anywho.
i must go and do my physics prac write-up.
MOOSE damn.

Heya. Don't sweat about the work, everyone gets it, it seems to be unavoidable unfortunately. I have twenty sides on dualism to do, really sucks.

I do indeed play the guitar. You could always do keyboards.

Hope the work lessens up a bit.

i should be writing my german oral. but instead i am writing to you. i hope you appreciate the sacrifice i am making (wink [boycotting smileys...]).

"twenty sides"- pls translate into something i would understand...

i think the guitar is a much cooler instrument than the piano...i wish i played the guitar. much too slack to bother to learn tho....

me too! this is really craptastic. well, it has to end soon. i hope.

good luck with ur work.

MOOSE bugger.

A side is one side of A4. A page is two sides. Cos a sheet of paper has two sides (that you can write on). So twenty sides is ten pages, printed front and back. Making any sense?

"People play the guitar because they want to get laid. People play the banjo because they love the sound it makes". - Billy Connolly

Piano has class. It is majestic. And you can play some cool tunes on it too.

Funny isn't it? The sytem nowadays seems to encourage slacking....

Think about it. Work hard in school, get good grades, go to a good uni. Work hard at uni, get good degree, get a good job. Because you have good grades you rise to be fairly senior, which means a heck of a lot more work (it didn't used to, but it does now). If you don't you're frustrated in a lowly position which you're overqualified for.

Now if you slack right the way through, you can live off state benefits. No work.

It's more complex than that but it's a puzzler isn't it.

ah right. you have to print both sides? seems a bit random...

AHAHAHAHA...that's funny. and probly quite true...although i don't know anyone who plays the banjo...

yes...i hate the system. they tell U that getting a good marks so you can get into uni is what it's all about. yet there are thousands of people who've never even SEEN a good mark who are doing really well and a lot of very poor, very bored academics...
you know, there are more qualifyed lawyers in this city than there are in the entirety of pakistan? very few of them actually work as lawyers. a lot of them are in the public servicew, doing somethig menial.

i would slack off, but i don't what i would do with my day if i was just living off welfare...

We don't have to print both sides. It's just to distinguish the page from the side.

It's true though. I think I'd rather be a poor academic though.

why do you get no. of pages anywho? what's wrong with a good old-fashioned word count? that's what we get...

yeah me too...which is why i AM trying to get good marks...

I don't know. High word counts are disheartening, whereas with a page limit, all you gotta do is change it to size 13 georgia font 1.5 line spacing.

precisely why you should have word count. with this page count crap there will be a HUGE variation in the amount of work people have actually done...

It was about five thousand words. Besides, quality over quantity. Both are working in my favour at the moment.

5000 isn't too bad...
then again, dualism don't sound like much fun...