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

Another Sunday, another mildly rejuvenating afternoon. Newcastle and Leeds are playing football somewhere inside my little radio set, I have a nice cafetiere full of intense coffee and the remains of 'Chicken Bloody Good' to contend with, and I'm enjoying the pleasant after-effects of two glasses of more or less half-decent Chardonnay. The simple pleasures, they say, are the best, and while I don't know who 'they' are to dispense such wisdom, I suppose I'll just have to take 'them' at 'their' word. 'Simple' is all I got, right here...

I notice, more by chance than anything, that it happens to be Easter weekend. One thing I can be sure enough of :- if life occasionally raises itself above the level of the unsatisfactory, it is thanks to my own efforts and the efforts of those around me, people that I care about and have respect for - not 'God', thank you very much, whether there is or is not such a thing. It's an insult to human intelligence to think otherwise...
Let's not any of us be fooled here. This world we live in was made and unmade by humans - used and abused as well, unfortunately. 'God' simply doesn't come into the equation - until we come to terms with this basic insight we will never take full responsibility for the state we have got the world into. Blaming our problems on the decline of religion won't get us anywhere - rather, shove us into reverse gear...

Just thought I'd make that point, on this of all days. What's the use of salvation, when we haven't even got things sorted out yet at ground level? As that great master of the human shallows Woody Allen once pointed out, there is no question that there *is* an unseen world. 'The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?'...

Might as well be facetious about such matters...