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| Thread ID: 51295 | 2004-11-17 02:37:00 | ot the meaning of life. | Thomas (1820) | Press F1 |
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| 293046 | 2004-11-18 09:09:00 | Aha! Metla to the rescue. I was just a bit late. And I agree yet again with our Russian Broom - most youth aren't navel gazing and sucking on the wacky baccy. As to the point of existence? We do not dwell on that much in our culture. Hence the decline of religion and spiritual discussion. We substitute psychology, counseling and a desperate search for role models. Happily, Paul Holmes, Jonah Lomu (not his fault) Matthew Ridge etc are out there for us. Individual meaning for people seems to span the vast distances between the selfless Mother Theresa and the execrable Donald Trump. Take your pick as to who has led a better life in terms of contribution to the human race. It is possible to argue both extremes. But I'm with the saint. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 293047 | 2004-11-18 09:12:00 | eh what? W001? LOL and me of course.....:p beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 293048 | 2004-11-18 09:28:00 | Saint Beetle of course. It has a certain cachet............. ;) | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 293049 | 2004-11-18 09:58:00 | I'm with personthingy that there's no global meaning of life, just personal fulfilment. And that it comes from a sense of achievement - in whatever... (Had a long philosophical screed to write here) Changed my mind & decided instead to agree with: 42 |
Laura (43) | ||
| 293050 | 2004-11-18 10:30:00 | The saints....Seems to me we all born with certain attributes.all by chance,if per chance one ends up with the desire to go about helping people or say making money or even take up law,then that is the way it is. With regards to helping people in say Africa or India etc,nothing seems to change,but as I say if one wants to and try to change things,by all means have a go. Metla please note I did say here is something amusing,a clue to it's veracity would't you say? |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 293051 | 2004-11-18 10:35:00 | 42 | Growly (6) | ||
| 293052 | 2004-11-18 10:46:00 | One word four syllables. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 293053 | 2004-11-18 10:50:00 | Growly: So young and yet so wise... (Or is this on its 2nd time around for your age group?) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 293054 | 2004-11-18 11:01:00 | While this has been covered in previous threads, the ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything has actually been shown to be 54, not 42 (base decimal) . It did equate to 42 base 13 however, as follows: Ref THGTTG (The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy) At the end of the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (volume 2 of the Hitchhiker's trilogy), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack . The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE" . "Six by nine . Forty-two . " "That's it . That's all there is . " But 6 × 9 = 54 However, it was later pointed out that 6 × 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10 . 42 base 13 = (4 x 13) + (2) = 54 |
godfather (25) | ||
| 293055 | 2004-11-18 11:06:00 | >From my OE years ago, I still remain impressed that the nicest people I met were also by far the poorest Saying that I did a charity run back in about 79 in England and the most charitable pub was also the hardest one on the block. We hit 23 pubs in 3 miles without going up side alleys. I as a Kiwi was nominated to ask the govener if we could collect and also did the collecting. With a half pint in each of real ale and downed in a gulp it was one hell of a crawl but we made more money in that one pub than all the snotty nosed ones. I reckon the poms enjoy life more so than us within there pub enviroment |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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