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Showing posts with label Douglas Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Douglas Adams. Show all posts

On The Vital Importance of Hairdressers

On The Vital Importance of Hairdressers Are you sitting down? Because in my experience, people are shocked when I tell them: I cut my own hair. In fact, I'm about to do it again. I've done it hundreds of times. There are Reasons I can do it, but because I do it myself, I had never fully appreciated the tremendous impact on society hairdressers have! Based on the depths of desperation on social media vis a vis haircuts, formally genial citizenry are positively freaking out wi…

Happy New Year 2020

Happy New Year 2020 In lieu of a Year in Review, here's a Douglas Adams quote. Whole mood, plus brain medicine. “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than ma…

God is no longer an explanation of anything,

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.  God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief th…