World Religions

[I, Brian]

Originally Posted by alexa

Why not 70 ?

Hitchhiker's Guide - the film will be out later this year. That should hopefully answer it (or was the answer in one of the later parts of the work?)

[alexa]

Never heard about it, Brian. What's the movie about ?

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" (actually it has five books, but is called a trilogy, thanks to the late Douglas Adams [the author].) You probably can find the books in your local public library to read if you have the time [:roflmaopmpculps: on that note, eh alexa? Especially with everything going on at work?]

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[alexa]

It must be a good trilogy if they do a movie on it. Did you read it, Phyllis ? What the story about ? [:roflmaopmpculps : I decided to go back to the University and do not stress myself too much at work anymore. Well, at least that was my intention. My supervisor had other opinion and gave me other tasks to do, of course keeping all the previous one in my responsiblity. Happily, the courses are during week-ends. What about you ? ]

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

Originally posted by alexa
It must be a good trilogy if they do a movie on it. Did you read it, Phyllis ?

Yes, first quite a few years ago and reread them a few times since then.

Originally posted by alexa
What the story about ?

It's the story of the trials and tribulations/adventures of a man who woke up one day to find himself evicted from his apartment and the apartment complex in the process of demolition, then things go downhill from there (in a nutshell.)

Originally posted by alexa
[:roflmaopmpculps:] I decided to go back to the University and do not stress myself too much at work anymore. Well, at least that was my intention. My supervisor had other opinion and gave me other tasks to do, of course keeping all the previous one in my responsiblity. Happily, the courses are during week-ends.

What classes? If you'ld rather PM me...

Originally posted by alexa
What about you ? ]

When the manure hits the fan...
I'm "down" with a throat infection, my brother is in the hospital with pneumonia, another class was cancelled (not enough people signing up) and it's too late to sign up for something else, plus a few of the people who signed up for reading-onto-tapes haven't shown up, creating a backlog (at least I'm not down with ankle injuries.) I've been dealing with spam and computer infections I got from two lists I belong to on campus plus trying to get a few "fundies" to stop passing out pamphlets/Bibles to faculty/students/staff who aren't Christian (the school I go to is a "state-run" university, therefore we have a separation of Church and State.) I don't have any problems with them passing out this stuff to Christians, but there are certain Chick Tracts that are rather offensive to outsiders (one supposedly aimed at Muslims, but I shan't post it or the link here.)

A couple of furred purrsons i know/knew irl have gone over the Rainbow Bridge, and one furred purrson I "met" on the internet also went over the Rainbow Bridge Thursday (if anybody's interested in "meeting" the internet furred purrson, you can meet him and his family at http://www.mows.com.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[dayaa]

Originally Posted by Basstian

a songwriter said finding that answer is like trying to smell the color 9.

but 9's not a color

and even if it was you cant smell a color

thats my point exactly

i find a clear link between colour and smell.....not sure about the numbers though....maybe i'm strange? but maybe not....look at the colour boxes perfumes come in....they are all in the right colour boxes...so other people must make the same link i do.

[smkolins]

While I appreciate and enjoy many of the references to Monty Python, Hitchhickers and other things about such a question I do feel the answer can be forthright as well as entertaining. I haven't yet seen reference to the one-liner versions of such questions yet, though they too are funny often (I think they are a spin off of characterizing the computer systems by how they would run the airlines.... DOS would be about gliding the plane until it crashes, rebuilding broken parts, taking off, gliding....)

An article reviewing some of the issues is here

Perhaps it would be good to have some quotes from a Baha'i perspective:

The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence....

Having created the world and all that liveth and moveth therein, He, through the direct operation of His unconstrained and sovereign Will, chose to confer upon man the unique distinction and capacity to know Him and to love Him--a capacity that must needs be regarded as the generating impulse and the primary purpose underlying the whole of creation.... Upon the inmost reality of each and every created thing He hath shed the light of one of His names, and made it a recipient of the glory of one of His attributes. Upon the reality of man, however, He hath focused the radiance of all of His names and attributes, and made it a mirror of His own Self. Alone of all created things man hath been singled out for so great a favor, so enduring a bounty....

O My servants! Could ye apprehend with what wonders of My munificence and bounty I have willed to entrust your souls, ye would, of a truth, rid yourselves of attachment to all created things, and would gain a true knowledge of your own selves--a knowledge which is the same as the comprehension of Mine own Being....


Now to reconsile these statements and the drift of the conversation so far...

If the point is to know God, as well as ourselves, and as everyone has pointed out through humor and other means this is a very impossible thing to do... the resolution of this paradox is the most paradoxical thing - The Manefestations of God, the Prophets. And Their Messages, God's One Message, has always been stirring the pot of our endevours. We achieve a certain measure of the impossible, weighed directly against our efforts rather than it's impossibility.