Post by Beanybag on Jul 17, 2008 17:45:45 GMT -5
Douglas Adams is the authors to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe series, and he is, and has been, my favorite author for some time. He died, sadly, before he could finish his series, and it pains me to this day that I was left on such a horrible cliff hanger. ;-;
I've never seen the movie, never will, and I recommend that you never do either.
Douglas Adams wrote an ingenious and humorous take on the universe...I honestly have no other way to describe it. I would sit there reading, and twist after twist comes at you and you can't help but say "Wow." out loud. He is the inventor of the significance to the number 42, read the damn books to find out why, you won't regret it.
An example of his genius: He created a plot device in his book called the babelfish which was a small creature that one put in their ear. In exchange for allowing it to feed off the brain waves one emitted, it would translate all information into the native language of that person.
Do I even need to say more?
I've never seen the movie, never will, and I recommend that you never do either.
Douglas Adams wrote an ingenious and humorous take on the universe...I honestly have no other way to describe it. I would sit there reading, and twist after twist comes at you and you can't help but say "Wow." out loud. He is the inventor of the significance to the number 42, read the damn books to find out why, you won't regret it.
An example of his genius: He created a plot device in his book called the babelfish which was a small creature that one put in their ear. In exchange for allowing it to feed off the brain waves one emitted, it would translate all information into the native language of that person.
Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
Do I even need to say more?