I gave the 42nd like and am so proud and give all honours to the team that made all the Hitchhiker's guide radio series, from the primary to the quintessential! Also I can't recommend Young Zaphod plays it safe hard enough!! Everyone would do well In listening to Douglas Noel Adam's lectures and comedy. Please. D.N.A is a hero of life. My hero.🏆 🕊🐸🥊💞👨🔬🌏🦉🐺
@@AtheosNous If one is able to understand the concept (I just pretend I donpmease explain it hahaha) should Indeed always have a towel in a quick and easy to get in indeed armreach proximity. Love. Respect. Stay well. Cheers! ✌🧙♂️🌍🐺👍
42 isn't a very valuable thing to award it. 42's just the worthless answer that came up because Deep Thought assumed the humans embedded in its circuitry were evolved monkeys instead of being descended from Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers, market executives and hairdressers.
Adams was an early athiest influence on me, back when I was still a Catholic. What I like is that his books were subtle enough about it that you could be a theist and still laugh and keep reading.
I think that this clip comes from "Salmon of Doubt." It's a collection of Adams' writings, and sections from the book he was working on when he died. Any Adams fan should read it. (Or listen to it, as the performance is brilliant)
I agree.. he is a Genius. thanks a lot for the info on the voice, I have been wondering that for a loong time! I think Simon did a great thing by doing this
Loved his books. Sad he never understood that, though many people's conceptions of God ( including his own) are serioously childish,, God is not. The mile high letters say, "I love you, and have given you beauty. Now, Go,Love, Serve, Restore,. Yes, evil is present also. But I gave you insight and reason and love to ovetcome it.
It’s on my dirty floor somewhere (I just read it) I should pick it up. The book jacket for dirk gently’s holistic detective agency is loose unattended next to the coffin basket for my dirty laundry. I can’t believe we got left like that with the rhino and the symptom of the cat
I loved this so much that I had to "Like" it (press the button) and share it on facebook, and after that I had to go on to thumb-up any nice comment about it.
I don't know exactly where from it is, but I seem to remember reading a passage like this one in the Salmon of Doubt - a collection of writings by DnA published shortly after his death.
@DontTouchMyVicodin Its from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from UK TV - NOT the movie. You can get it online as a video or probably an audio book somewhere !
While most of us mistake self awareness for intelligence, Adams was/is intelligent enough to be humorous. So precarious is the balance that allows life on this planet, one can only laugh at the hysterics created by debating superstitious mythology. Douglas Adams is brilliant!
excellent video, great concept, seems like common sense that everyone could grasp, unfortunately not everyone is capable of making this correlation....
Coming to this masterpiece late but as a life-long admirer of Douglas Adams (& his disciple pTerry Pratchett) who better than Simon Jones - the original Arthur Dent to narrate Douglas Adams ??
Quote 3:40 The best description of religion ever made. Dont read it if you find yourself being a puddle. “This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" RIP Douglas Adams.
Cave Rave God is no fellow, our ancestors made that mistake. God is the all natural big bang creator, evolver & ruler of the universe -- the integrated laws of nature and forces of physics. Yes God evolved the world then evolved man, the Darwinian way. This is the way that we fit into the world so perfectly natural evolution. If not for God there would be nothing instead of everything. Atheists are profoundly wrong & delusional, most believers misidentified God, but to think humans created & rule the universe is truly frothing at the mouth insane.
Mikhel Barajas Oh thanks for telling me Douglas Adams was Richard Dawkins favorite comedian on religion. I went here after hearing that Dawkins interview.
Hi there: endearing as your admiration for Adams is, I think it's a bit much to call him the greatest intellect of our time. He wrote a radio show and then a novel based upon it; I'm not sure where his influence extends beyond that. I don't even think his work has been 'canonized', as it were, by the past century's readers (it's not all done by critics). But as it's your opinion, I'll respect that.....tbc.
@spazfox Effectively, this helps a lot with being able to provide at a lower and much faster than contiguous concatenation, however is intrinsically the problem of differential delay where each that is created.
some people need to believe that other people need something else to belive in makes em feel different ,special even "only thing i believe in is tellin people what to believe" should be a famous quote /ignore
@PastafariansWON as much as i knew that already, i never really THOUGHT of it... guess thats the way they get people. FEAR! thank you tho, your comment makes me feel better : )
@Maddin667 Yes!, thats my point exactly. I think, and I might be wrong, but he presents early mans view god as one single god who created things with a purpose behind it; but as we all know primitive religion was centered around many gods not just one. So, in order for his arguement to hold up, early man had to have believed in a monotheistic god and not in several. What do you think?
"He even manages to live in New York, for heaven's sake!" - ah, Douglas... In the third book (I think it was the third) in his Hitchhiker's series, he also makes fun of NYC :)
There's an airport where all planes are filled with passengers waiting for it to take off but there have been delays... So all passengers are put into hibernation by the central computer. From time to time, they all wake up, start screaming because they're still where they were, their plane's take-off still delayed. And a nice voice on the intercom informs all that coffee and peanuts will be served while they are waiting for the plane to take off. Eventually, since no plane does take off, all passengers are put into hibernation again. Till the next time they wake up. I think he described Hell.
Has anybody in here read anything of chesterton? I think he makes great points of what is being discussed here, especially on his book The everlasting man, I think that is a good book to read in honor to neutrality. I myself believe that faith is in the hearth of every human knowledge, also in te law of gravity we put faith in. The problem is in what we put faith in. (im sorry for my bad englis, its not my first langaje)
Hmmm... the puddle comment was really interesting. I guess i could see that happening if rain water had rational thought. Adams is a real sharp dude i didnt know he wrote Hitchhikers Guide.
Well I guess you are right! But still i think there is a subtle difference. Most of the unique entities are used with an article "the" (the Queen, the President) while god as far as i know is never used that way. (I don't believe in the God((?)) vs I serve to the Queen)
@epartida7 Not necessarily. Even a polytheistic mythology has to start from one character. I'd imagine it's pretty unlikely that early man would go "Okay, let's invent polytheism! Now to think of some gods...". More likely it was a gradual thing of "Thing A is awesome, god A must have made it", "Thing B is awesome, god B must have made it", et.c.. Still the same kind of thinking. Also we can't be sure that the very first forms of theism were polytheistic, as recorded human history is limited.
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it as well?"
Douglas Adams.
So Adams is the one who came up with the puddle analogy? Brilliant! I give it a 42.
I gave the 42nd like and am so proud and give all honours to the team that made all the Hitchhiker's guide radio series, from the primary to the quintessential!
Also I can't recommend Young Zaphod plays it safe hard enough!!
Everyone would do well In listening to Douglas Noel Adam's lectures and comedy. Please.
D.N.A is a hero of life. My hero.🏆
🕊🐸🥊💞👨🔬🌏🦉🐺
@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 Nice! Don't forget your towel. 😄
@@AtheosNous If one is able to understand the concept (I just pretend I donpmease explain it hahaha) should Indeed always have a towel in a quick and easy to get in indeed armreach proximity. Love. Respect. Stay well. Cheers!
✌🧙♂️🌍🐺👍
@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 Cheers! 😊
42 isn't a very valuable thing to award it. 42's just the worthless answer that came up because Deep Thought assumed the humans embedded in its circuitry were evolved monkeys instead of being descended from Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers, market executives and hairdressers.
Adams was an early athiest influence on me, back when I was still a Catholic. What I like is that his books were subtle enough about it that you could be a theist and still laugh and keep reading.
Douglas was a brilliant man. His legendary feats shall never be forgotten.
I can't help but smile at how much this makes sense.
In the begining man greated god in his image
Only when he learn’t to travel through time. God in man’s image is a little way in the vast infinite distant future otherwise.
how cool that Simon Jones read / narrated this..
You left us all far too soon, the world still has need for people like you!
I think that this clip comes from "Salmon of Doubt." It's a collection of Adams' writings, and sections from the book he was working on when he died. Any Adams fan should read it. (Or listen to it, as the performance is brilliant)
I agree.. he is a Genius.
thanks a lot for the info on the voice, I have been wondering that for a loong time! I think Simon did a great thing by doing this
15 Years ago! This is Time Travel at it's Finest!
Brilliant. Thank you clearing things up. I can now see I've been wrong, so wrong. I can now enjoy life on earth knowing there is nothing else.
Loved his books. Sad he never understood that, though many people's conceptions of God ( including his own) are serioously childish,, God is not.
The mile high letters say, "I love you, and have given you beauty. Now, Go,Love, Serve, Restore,. Yes, evil is present also. But I gave you insight and reason and love to ovetcome it.
This is an excerpt from The Salmon of Doubt, definitely worth picking up if you liked this.
It’s on my dirty floor somewhere (I just read it) I should pick it up. The book jacket for dirk gently’s holistic detective agency is loose unattended next to the coffin basket for my dirty laundry. I can’t believe we got left like that with the rhino and the symptom of the cat
What an amazing mind. RIP Douglas.
I found this video inclredibly smart and thought provoking. Mr. Adams was a remarkably intelligent man, and I still believe in God.
he taught people so much and could have taught us so much more
Thank you again Mr. Adams for putting things in perspective.
What a beautiful and simple way of explaining it. Love it!!!!!
I loved this so much that I had to "Like" it (press the button) and share it on facebook, and after that I had to go on to thumb-up any nice comment about it.
Bravo analogy Douglas Adams, bravo.
Peace.
You know, this is the best explanation for religion I've ever heard. Thank you so much for posting it! :-D
I love Douglas Adams! He was such a genius!
Ah Douglas Adams, brilliant, comme d'habitude =)
42
Inspiring speech and kickass background music.
So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas!
This is my fav Adams bit. It's from The Salmon of Doubt (which is itself a collection of his previous speeches and interviews).
Fantastic! What a brilliant man.
A true genius, this man was.
love it !!
"The puddle thinks 'this fits me very well - very very well. it must have been made for me".
Heh. Nice point.
brilliant and entertaining
Great stuff, faved.
Douglas Adams was brilliant. RIP Douglas.
Jesus. Could early man turn down THAT RACKET!!!!
An eloquent and lucid man.
Never heard this clip before. Pure genious. ^^
This was one of his older ideas which helped inspire some of Dawkins approaches to discussing the origin of God. They were mates in the old days.
I don't know exactly where from it is, but I seem to remember reading a passage like this one in the Salmon of Doubt - a collection of writings by DnA published shortly after his death.
A brilliant man.
@DontTouchMyVicodin Its from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from UK TV - NOT the movie. You can get it online as a video or probably an audio book somewhere !
What a brilliant writer.
douglas adams is a life changing genius. may he rest in peace, returning to the earth that gave us life.
brilliant
love it
Science doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop!
Dara O'Brian
Well said sir.
Great!
True genius. Articulately expressed. Great humour. Ties in perfectly with existentialist psychology theory.
@bimmjim GENIUS! I applaud you.
Its good to know that some people like douglas adams was happy with his digital watches!
BTW, Douglas Adams was awesome, is awesome.
One of the wisest in our time.
R.I.P.
Best quote ever.
AMERICA NEEDS MORE OF THIS
While most of us mistake self awareness for intelligence, Adams was/is intelligent enough to be humorous.
So precarious is the balance that allows life on this planet, one can only laugh at the hysterics created by debating superstitious mythology.
Douglas Adams is brilliant!
excellent video, great concept, seems like common sense that everyone could grasp, unfortunately not everyone is capable of making this correlation....
I miss douglas
Me too. Very much. I do him the honor of listening to what he expressed and telling others about him.
Put so straight forward and simple...Religion 0 - Rational thinking 1
Well said
Coming to this masterpiece late but as a life-long admirer of Douglas Adams (& his disciple pTerry Pratchett) who better than Simon Jones - the original Arthur Dent to narrate Douglas Adams ??
cool vid man, thanks for sharing!
Darn the jazzy music... It distracts me a lot from listening to this genius speech...
Quote 3:40 The best description of religion ever made. Dont read it if you find yourself being a puddle.
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"
RIP Douglas Adams.
Who is this God fellow is anyways?
Cave Rave God is no fellow, our ancestors made that mistake. God is the all natural big bang creator, evolver & ruler of the universe -- the integrated laws of nature and forces of physics. Yes God evolved the world then evolved man, the Darwinian way. This is the way that we fit into the world so perfectly natural evolution. If not for God there would be nothing instead of everything. Atheists are profoundly wrong & delusional, most believers misidentified God, but to think humans created & rule the universe is truly frothing at the mouth insane.
ungertron What Cave Rave wrote is a quote (albeit a misquote) from one of Douglas Adams' books.
Mikhel Barajas Oh thanks for telling me Douglas Adams was Richard Dawkins favorite comedian on religion. I went here after hearing that Dawkins interview.
ungertron It was a quote from Adams' book, you cretin.
He is dead.
Hi there: endearing as your admiration for Adams is, I think it's a bit much to call him the greatest intellect of our time. He wrote a radio show and then a novel based upon it; I'm not sure where his influence extends beyond that. I don't even think his work has been 'canonized', as it were, by the past century's readers (it's not all done by critics). But as it's your opinion, I'll respect that.....tbc.
LOVING the puddle analogy
oh my gods! What a freaking genius.
he was so realistc in his theories, he is one of the masterminds of the 20th century
@spazfox
Effectively, this helps a lot with being able to provide at a lower and much faster than contiguous concatenation, however is intrinsically the problem of differential delay where each that is created.
Why can’t I thumbs up 100 times?
This needs an animation, Hitchhikers guide style!
some people need to believe that other people need something else to belive in makes em feel different ,special even "only thing i believe in is tellin people what to believe" should be a famous quote
/ignore
in memoriam
Genius
this was for ufewl.
sorry for posting in the wrong spot.
this guy is a Genius
Gro - si - si - mo!
muy muy bueno! :)
@PastafariansWON as much as i knew that already, i never really THOUGHT of it... guess thats the way they get people. FEAR!
thank you tho, your comment makes me feel better : )
this is really about when Douglas Addams decided to tell the population of mankind to be careful with the planet and not to take anything for granted
@Maddin667 Yes!, thats my point exactly. I think, and I might be wrong, but he presents early mans view god as one single god who created things with a purpose behind it; but as we all know primitive religion was centered around many gods not just one. So, in order for his arguement to hold up, early man had to have believed in a monotheistic god and not in several. What do you think?
This is what enlightened me to atheism
Man, Douglas Adams owned.
I was going to ask, as I thought it sounded more like Arthur Dent.
Beautiful!
Kind of reminds me of the Veil of Madness stories. Can't explain why without giving away spoilers. Look it up and read it, you'll understand.
this. is. awesome!
(to the tune of "this is Sparta")
"He even manages to live in New York, for heaven's sake!" - ah, Douglas... In the third book (I think it was the third) in his Hitchhiker's series, he also makes fun of NYC :)
There's an airport where all planes are filled with passengers waiting for it to take off but there have been delays...
So all passengers are put into hibernation by the central computer.
From time to time, they all wake up, start screaming because they're still where they were, their plane's take-off still delayed.
And a nice voice on the intercom informs all that coffee and peanuts will be served while they are waiting for the plane to take off.
Eventually, since no plane does take off, all passengers are put into hibernation again.
Till the next time they wake up.
I think he described Hell.
Wow, that "zany" jazz in the background isn't irritating at all.
incredible man. Too bad he left us too early.
Has anybody in here read anything of chesterton? I think he makes great points of what is being discussed here, especially on his book The everlasting man, I think that is a good book to read in honor to neutrality. I myself believe that faith is in the hearth of every human knowledge, also in te law of gravity we put faith in. The problem is in what we put faith in. (im sorry for my bad englis, its not my first langaje)
I AM aware of the contents and meaning of the Sermon on the Mount. But thanks for the tip.
thebbeenn, thank you so much for not tossing out the baby with the bathwater.
Exactly.
Hmmm... the puddle comment was really interesting. I guess i could see that happening if rain water had rational thought. Adams is a real sharp dude i didnt know he wrote Hitchhikers Guide.
Thats the nature of a true Atheist...he/she can lose an argument and acknowledge it.. Respect
Well I guess you are right! But still i think there is a subtle difference. Most of the unique entities are used with an article "the" (the Queen, the President) while god as far as i know is never used that way. (I don't believe in the God((?)) vs I serve to the Queen)
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw:
Animals look at the world and adapt to fit it.
Mankind looks at the world and adapts it to fit him.
omg that was sooo good :) loled hard
@epartida7 Not necessarily. Even a polytheistic mythology has to start from one character. I'd imagine it's pretty unlikely that early man would go "Okay, let's invent polytheism! Now to think of some gods...". More likely it was a gradual thing of "Thing A is awesome, god A must have made it", "Thing B is awesome, god B must have made it", et.c.. Still the same kind of thinking. Also we can't be sure that the very first forms of theism were polytheistic, as recorded human history is limited.
Very good point :P