Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy....

I still did not know what you were talking about so I googled your Hitch Hiker thing and see it's a movie? any good? or I will stillll never know what in the world this 42 thing issss! argh! hehe

Was on PBS. The author is no longer with us.

great books also. wish I had a babel fish sometimes.

what was it about? the hitch hiker's guide, i mean.....

and thank you so much!

maybe this will help. I suggest you read the books by Douglas Adams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
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thanks so much: i will!

Hmm am I missing something? I skimmed that Hitch Hiker thing out and it looks completely rediculous. I like silly but from what I read about that I think I will pass. hehe

sapphira please let me know what you think of it if you check it out okay?

Doreen...you philistine....

Hitchhiker's is a classic of SF comedy...

 

PS...it isn't really about solving existentialism's quandaries...

Actually it sounds kinda funny from the overview. Some kind of truth in thinking of the Earth as a computer. And in reality, I think it (Earth) really is about to crash.

I mean there is silly and then there is sillyyyy (that overview I read looked a bitttt too sillyyyy)

no kidding Donna pretty scarey when you hear the news (over here on my side every day someone new getting their heads chopped off and you wonder how they are still chopping off heads when didn't we just cough up a few billion bucks to prevent that) hehe

don't even get me started about the ozone layer!!! j/k
/me is Zzzzz g'night you guys

i will let you know, Doreen. i read just about anything new that comes along really, largely b/c i REALLY want to know what others are thinking & believing.....
and i don't need anyone to solve existentialism's quandaries, Jafo. they've already been solved
goodnight, y'all....sweet dreams

What could be better than a suicidal, self-loathing, robot. Give it a chance, Doreen. Read it...you know you want to, secretly

Be warned, to find out the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything (42), you need to read the four books (or was it three? ... It's been a while. )

.... Well you guys seem pretty fired up on the..uh, 42 things. Death is a climax because it is the ultimate experience, the final experience (phsyically anyway). I think you misunderstood that Doreen. it's almost a contrary experience but they do say that there are still 6-12 minutes of conscious activity (regardless of the death) after dying - so you would technically have experienced death. I don't know.

Alright, what are people's thoughts on "reincarnation"? Do some of you believe that you were once Alexandra the great or Cleopatra? Do some of you think that the concept of reincarnation is ridiculous? Explain...

Paxxy you guys knowwwww I don't do books! wolf no, not really I watch cartoon network when I want silly...

(gizzimo you're asking for trouble) hehe!

they do say that there are still 6-12 minutes of conscious activity (regardless of the death)

How could someone know this to be a fact? If you're dead, you wouldn't be able to come back and tell someone about it...
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42?

Good, then I still have time!

reincarnation


Now that question is easy.
We all started from somewhere and we all finish somewhere. Body parts used for other things, just like they were other things before the body parts were formed.

The circle of life.

What I wonder is our consciences stays intact or dissipates into many different things. In others words, do I become a bird or do I become a bird, rock, tree, solar wind, oxygen and some other things.

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I dont know why this is underlined but it won't go away.

42 is definitely the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Don't forget about the Vogon poetry ....

Death's not going to be much of a climax if you die in your sleep.

you need to read the four books (or was it three?

1.) The hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy.
2.) The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
3.) Life, The Universe And Everything.
4.) So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish.
5.) Mostly Harmless.

Definitely a "must read" for those that love a good laugh!


Oh, and we're here to experience the 'gift' that is life... not to ponder it. (imho)




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of course the whole point of the "42" thing was that although the answer was simple, it was the original question that was unfathomable

the meaning of life for me? hmmm... as WrecklessEric just said "experience the gift that is life", but more than that - ENJOY IT!

(even if you find pondering it enjoyable )

Uh, hey folks, uhm, well wouldn't it be a good idea to ask Mikey about the meaning of life? I mean he realllllly likes it!!!!!

EventHorizon: What i meant was that the brain still functions (sending and receiving chemical messages to the nervous system) for 6 to 12 minutes. You may have died and cannot move, but it's likely (depending on the death) that you can still receive messages but not send them, as in you can still see and hear and maybe even think etc.

I really don't know how to quote it's useless i press it and it doesn't do anything, so i'll use the good old copy and paste technique.

"Now that question is easy.
We all started from somewhere and we all finish somewhere."

Didn't someone before said that 'reason' was a human concept? doesn't anyone maybe think the same thing about start and end? isn't that a human concept also? in that we seem to franction time into sections creating start and end points. If we have infinity, then start and finish is a human concept.

What are people's views on time and motion?