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Ethelred
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Considering that yesterday you had a thread deleted just as was about to reply to it I suspect you may never have such godlike powers.
Did you learn who snipped the thread? The reason was obvious. Feeling better today? You seemed a bit over the edge.
Perhaps a true understanding of the importance of 42 might help.
Sorry I can't help with that. Adams had at least one more Hitchhiker book to write. Cosmic censorship perhaps.
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John Paul Jones
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I once knew a man who discovered the true meaning of 42 - but he disapeared in a puff of logic immediately thereafter.
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Ethelred
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quote:
Originally posted by HsFB
And how did the Aztec Empire end up? |
Destroyed by Small pox. Mostly.
That was the secret weapon that Cortez didn't even know he had. Small pox killed more Amerinds than anything else. I really don't think wearing sandals and counting to twenty had much to do with that.
They thought the meaning of life was blood. Lots of it. Made the sun come up.
I think 42 is a much better answer. At least no one I ever heard of wants to kill people over it.
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Adalbertus
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Cologne, Germany
Feb 2001
time: 06:18
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Eat 42 bananas.
Heavens, I'm over it.
Long ago I had a lecture on nuclear detection techniques. In the last lesson of the series, the lecturer left the field, and told a bit about cosmic theories. I hope I recall everything correctly.
Thus he spake:
There is a (in a suitable system of dimensions) dimensionless number in electromagnetic theory with the value 1/137, called the Fine Structure Constant. For the weak and strong interaction there are similar numbers. Now, their value depends on the density, and therefore on the size of the universe. There was a time short after Big Bang, where due to the density the electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction were so intimately coupled that the three Fine Structure Constants took the same value, which is 42. "But what was the question?"
Last minute of the last lecture of the year.
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Ethelred
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quote:
Originally posted by HsFB
I know about the Aztecs!!! It was a rhetorical question!!!!!
And what about my AZ theory? |
I am really good at rhetoric. Thank you for your question.
As for your AZ theory I think you will have to expand on it a bit. Perhaps if you ran it through a Matrix expansion and then divided by Arthur Dent.
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The meaning of life is to procreate and spread the seed.
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Ethelred
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All your base are belong to us.
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Simon Darkshade
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Evil HQ, Adelaide, South Australia
May 2001
time: 14:18
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I've always liked this little explanation from Macbeth:
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
It doth appeal to me, and my situation. I will always have a soft spot for the quote of Genghis Khan, but that is not strictly about the meaning of life, but rather the greatest joy a man can have... 
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Ethelred
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It was specially written as a counter irritant to the extended rant that preceeded it.
It has no other meaning and certainly nothing to do with the meaning of life.
So if some people here absolutely MUST have a serious answer then:
The meaning of life is the making of more life.
If life doesn't make more life than life ends.
So it is its own meaning.
Only inteligence worries about the meaning of life. Life exists and the maintenance of its existance is its only verifiable meaning. All other claims as to the meaning of life is mere speculation on top of speculation that there is a meaning to find in the first place.
There, is that relevant and meaningfull enough for you.
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boann
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ice queen colorado
Sep 2000
time: 22:18
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The Secret of Life
(Gretchen Peters)
Couple of guys sittin' around drinkin'
Down at the Starlight Bar
One of 'em says, "You know I've been thinking"
Other one says, "That won't get you too far"
He says, "This is your life, and welcome to it
It's just workin' and drinkin' and dreams
Ad on TV says ‘Just Do It’
Hell if I know what that means"
The secret of life is a good cup of coffee
The secret of life is keep your eye on the ball
The secret of life is a beautiful woman
And Marilyn stares down from the barroom wall
"You and me, we're just a couple of zeros
Just a couple of down-and-outs
But movie stars and football heroes
What have they got to be unhappy about?"
So they turn to the bartender, "Sam, what do you think?
What's the key that unlocks that door?"
Sam don't say nothin', just wipes off the bar
And he pours them a couple more
'Cause the secret of life is in Sam's martinis
The secret of life is in Marilyn's eyes
The secret of life is in Monday Night Football
Rolling Stones records and Mom's apple pie
Sam looks up from his Sunday paper
Says, "Boys, you're on the wrong track
"The secret of life is there ain't no secret
And you don't get your money back" 
Hey
The secret of life is gettin’ up early
The secret of life is stayin' up late
The secret of life is try not to hurry
But don't wait
Don't wait
The secret of life is a good cup of coffee
The secret of life is keep your eye on the ball
The secret of life is to find the right woman
The secret of life is nothin' at all
Oh, it's nothin' at all
The secret of life
Couple of guys sittin' around drinkin'
Down at the Starlight Bar
One of 'em says, "You know I've been thinking"
Other one says, "That won't get you too far"
"That won't get you too far"
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