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rossfadeinout
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Posted 10/14/2003 5:06 AM (GMT -6)

Wasn't sure where to put this on the board, but I thought that this was a really interesting website, so I wanted to post the link. www.meaningoflife.tv/

I've only watched the interviews with Keith Ward and John Polkinghorne, and both were very interesting.

Ross

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Laika
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Posted 10/14/2003 5:13 AM (GMT -6)

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 6:53 AM (GMT -6)

Unfortunately I can't be watching and listening to videos of people being interviewed, here at work. I wish they had transcripts written out.

Do you remember that one episode on either Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories" or the new "Twilight Zone," both from the 1980's, where everyone in this small town discovered what the true meaning of life was? Somehow someone discovered what it was and would laugh hysterically like it was so hilarious, and then they'd go completely and literally insane. They'd whisper it to another person, and the same thing would happen to that person and so on until everyone in town heard it and went insane.

I was just a little girl back then and after watching it, I remember saying to my mom, "I wonder what the meaning of life really is?"

And she said, "Oh, that's just a silly TV show. The meaning of life is to be with Jesus." (or something to that effect.)

Tigress

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Blood Washed Heretic
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Posted 10/14/2003 6:55 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

42

Yes, but the question is: What is 6 X 8?

In essentials, unity; In matters of opinion, liberty; In all things, love.

Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 7:16 AM (GMT -6)

Oh, I forgot to add that on that TV program, they never did reveal what the meaning of life was. They'd just have one person whisper it to another - and so left the audience in the dark. That's why I wondered aloud what it might really be.

Tigress

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Laika
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Posted 10/14/2003 7:27 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Blood Washed Heretic

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

42

Yes, but the question is: What is 6 X 8?

48 (I had to take my shoes and socks off)

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 7:43 AM (GMT -6)

Okay, so how is the number 42 the meaning of life? Question

Tigress

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Laika
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Posted 10/14/2003 7:49 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
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Okay, so how is the number 42 the meaning of life?

It's prime factors are 2, 3 and 7.

Sit down and relax. Take deep breaths and count to 22. Now think of 2, 3 and 7 but DON'T THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS. It will come to you.

I'm serious about the PINK ELEPHANTS. DO NOT THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS.

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 8:35 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Okay, so how is the number 42 the meaning of life?

It's prime factors are 2, 3 and 7.

Sit down and relax. Take deep breaths and count to 22. Now think of 2, 3 and 7 but DON'T THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS. It will come to you.

I'm serious about the PINK ELEPHANTS. DO NOT THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS.

You moron! Tongue

Tigress

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Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 9:47 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by Tigress

Okay, so how is the number 42 the meaning of life?

It's prime factors are 2, 3 and 7.

Sit down and relax. Take deep breaths and count to 22. Now think of 2, 3 and 7 but DON'T THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS. It will come to you.

I'm serious about the PINK ELEPHANTS. DO NOT THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANTS.

You moron!

I was just joking around when I said this, by the way! Big Smile

Tigress

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honorman
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Posted 10/14/2003 9:48 AM (GMT -6)

You can not not think about something...

Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 10:16 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by honorman

You can not not think about something...

That's why I called him a moron! Flame2

Greg Boyd did that to us in church a few times, too! It's a kobi-oshi-maru. (That's Star Trek lingo for a no-win situation.)

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Laika
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Posted 10/14/2003 11:37 AM (GMT -6)

Tigris, the 42 actually comes from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.
Not that I'm geeky enough to have read it.

Or listened to a sermon on Star Trek. Eyebrow

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Tigress
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Posted 10/14/2003 12:11 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

Tigris, the 42 actually comes from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe.
Not that I'm geeky enough to have read it.

Or listened to a sermon on Star Trek.

No, Greg didn't quote Star Trek. He just told us to try not to think of a pink elephant - ya goofball!

So, why did they say 42?

Tigress

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Laplace
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Posted 10/14/2003 12:51 PM (GMT -6)

Tigress,

That episode you are talking about was from The New Twilight Zone.

As for 42, that was the answer to the question, "What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" given to a super computer.

The problem was not though that the answer was flawed, but the question.

Hitchhiker's Guide is a good read nonetheless.

"I say we blast the meatbag, Master" -HK-47, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Alan Rhoda
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Posted 10/14/2003 3:41 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
As for 42, that was the answer to the question, "What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything" given to a super computer.

More exactly, in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Tongue

42 is the answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. (Unlike Laika I am geeky enough to have read it Wink

) While it's a hilariously funny 5-volume "trilogy" (the author's term), the underlying message of the books, reflected in the absurd answer of "42", is that there is no meaning to either life, the universe, or anything. The author, Douglas Adams, was an avowed atheist and a nihilist. For him life is objectively meaningless. Kinda dampens the humor of the books when you realize that.

Alan

rossfadeinout
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Posted 10/15/2003 10:49 AM (GMT -6)

Interesting.... has anyone actually got to watch any of the interviews? Maybe I'm the only one dorky enough to get excited about finding a bunch of interviews with philosophers who are discussing metaphysical issues. Smile

For all you Open Theists out there, in the section with John Polknighorne where he talks about free will, he sounds like he has an "open" view of God's knowledge of the future.

Ross

"Let us remember how common the folly is of going from one faulty extreme into the opposite." -Thomas Reid

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