Wombat asked me to post this..............

Aha Baz - I may not have been "rolling on" the floor I may have been doing something else to it!!!!!!!

Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
Ford Prefect: Why, what did she tell you?
Arthur Dent: I don't know, I didn't listen.
-THGTTG-

.."And thanks for all the fish"........!

Oh no... What have I started!? :-)

Very wise words indeed

Aren't you supposed to be at work? Or are you sneaking off to ExplorOz while the BOSS is out of the office....hahahaha

Working very hard I am Willem. Just breaking up the tedium of the day with a laugh or two. The BOSS will just have to work harder to make up for my "breaks in concentration".

Same number of hours in the day here in the city Karen!

G'day Karsten

Did you get any rain? We have have had two days of rain and have now equalled last years total of 217mm

Trees bow in the breeze and talk to the wind. They also communicate to humans when we go and give them a hug. When we prune home grown trees severely they pay us back by not bearing fruit the following year as I am witnessing now....life is a learning curve and you are never too old to learn something.

To quote from Banjo Pattersons poem Clancy of the Overflow

"And the bush is there to meet him
And their kindly voices greet him
From the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars
And he sees the vision splendid
Of the sunlit plains extended
And at night the wonderous glory of the everlasting stars"

Maybe that is the Meaning of Life

All of this and more at Bridsville.

Typo corrections...I am getting as bad as Des Lexsic

217 should read 271

Bridsville should read Birdsville, of course

Oooops sorry for mis-spelling Karsten - fingers moving faster than brain

Maybe dyslexia is contagious (or toncagious).

Having grown up in Sydney (spent the first 30 years there before moving to Birdsville) I realise, Wobble....Ooops...Wombat that there are, indeed, the same number of hours in the the day . But the oddist thing is mate, it stretches out here! You have alot more time to be.

Time is relative, me 'ol matie!

Willem, eloquently put ! I was just noting that the answers to date seemed rather limited to the human experience, and although most of the responses were from homo sapiens, (I think), being human gives us that "special ability" to project....ie. put ourselves in somebody else's shoes.....or something else's.....aggghhhh....anthropomorphism.....Just wanted to make sure nobody forgot that we're not the only Life on the planet.....(or probably in the universe)!

No mate, not a drop of rain here. Though watched an amazing electrical storm move north to south-east last night about 2am. Could have been some rain to the east. There's a steady breeze blowing at the moment from the east, a little bit of fluffy stuff in the sky, but all in all a corka of a day - not too hot.

This question has always bothered me. There is no single, identifiable "meaning of life" since "meaning" is an 'intention' or a 'significant quality' or 'special significance' and will therefore be different for each organism based upon its individual experiences and stimuli.

To confuse the whole concept even further, we have attached emotion to the word. But, in essence, "life" is just a sound (word) we use to label the circumstances and experiences of our "state of being" - the fact that we are anything at all and can actually recognise and conceptualise that notion.

Life is what you make it but that doesn't mean it has meaning.

Life is an accident waiting to happen.

Life is what you do while waiting to die.

I live because I exist.

etc, etc, etc.

Now, what I really want to know is ....

"What is the meaning of our existence?"

:)

It's a bit like trying to plot a path through infinity, isn't it ?

Me thinks you might be generalising somewhat, Truckster. Can't speak for all of woman-kind, but my wife Jackie is as smart as a very smart cookie that's just been appointed professor of smartology at Oxford university! There's absolutely nothing common about her, but she makes more sense than most men I talk with!

The rest of it works on the same principles as any other mind. If you're interested there's a great book available called "Goedel, Esher, Bach" by a fellow called Douglas R Hofstadter. It's very revealing with regards to the working of mind.

what a book to refer to Karsten, it does nothing but open the floodgates for millions of other options to the way a mind works hahahaha. Its still a mystery the mind of a woman.

IMHO The key to a womans mind s that its a one piece package, its all in there at once so a reaction to a broken nail might be caused by something that happened the day before, or something else entirely independant, however due to the unitary mind the reaction happens.

Mens Minds are compartmentalised, we have a bit for work and a bit for home and a bit for the footy and a bit for this and that, so if something happens at home and we are working from our home compartment we react to what is happening at home. Thats why we forget to pick up the dry cleaning during the day cause we're working from our work compartment, and thats also why the drycleaning "pops" into our mind when we're on the way home from work as our mind lollops from the work compartment to the home one.

Its also the reason the scratch is down the side of the car when you arrive home and noone knows how it got there.

It take that the Nissan got there by itself.......smart truck!!!