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A community portal about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams, debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Since then it has been adapted to other formats, slowly becoming an international multi-media phenomenon over a span of several years. Adaptations have included stage shows, a series of five books first published between 1979 and 1992, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996. There were also two series of towels, produced by Beer-Davies, that are considered by some fans to be an "official version" of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as they include text from the first novel. A Hollywood-funded film version, produced and filmed in the UK, was released in April 2005, and adaptations of the last three books to radio were broadcast from 2004 to 2005. Many of these adaptations, including the novels, the TV series, the computer game, and the earliest drafts of the Hollywood film's screenplay, were all done by Adams himself, and some of the stage shows debuted new material written by Adams.

What If Eternity Doesn’t Exist?

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by James Chapman, Mar 29, 2009

What if it was only a huge marketing ploy by the priests and the funeral directors, just to get us to willingly pay them a lot of money so that we can book early our resting place before our journey to eternity?

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The theory of there being an eternity came about when mankind realized that it did not have an answer for the question, what is our purpose?

 So, as in many other cases, the human race made a decision to pass the responsibility for providing the answer to a higher being. In this way it was hoped that the majority of people would just accept their situation and wait patiently for the answer, until they finally arrived in eternity.

 Many people believe that Douglas Adams in his book, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, came the closest to answering the question what is the meaning of life, when he said ‘42’.

 You can call me a doubting Thomas, although I don’t think that it is only Thomas who doubts this theory of there being an eternity.

 What if there really was no eternity? What if we went nowhere after we died? What then?

 Ok, I can hear the outcry, this is sacrilege they are saying, but that is the word that is expressed by the same people that came up with and follow the eternity theory.

 Has anyone ever been there and come back to tell us about it? Have we received any ‘wish you were here’ postcards, from any of our relatives who have taken the journey to eternity?

 What if there was no hereafter, no place beyond and no resting place for our souls?

 What if we did not have a soul and that was yet again just a clever part of the overall marketing campaign to convince us about the higher being and eternity?

 So many questions and no real tangible answers, because this theory on the existence of eternity works on the basis that it is all outside of our touchable materialistic world.

 Now isn’t that very convenient?

 It would appear that the only way we are ever going to find out if eternity really does exist, is for us to wait and see for ourselves.

 Of course, by the time that happens we will not have any way of letting anyone know and so the mystery will continue, for many generations to come, until the end of time.

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