Strangely Ironic Book Meme
Sean the Blogonaut posted an open-invitation book meme:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
The closest book to me was one just perched off the end of my bookcase: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It was quite literally the closest piece of literature to me in my room, and it also just happened to be my favourite book (so I luckily avoid #5).
What happens next is strangely ironic given the content of this blog. I opened the book to page 56, and was greeted with the popular argument against God (the one about the Babel fish). The next 7 sentences read:
`”Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
`”Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
`Most leading theologians claim this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
`Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.`
Arthur let out a low groan. He was horrified to discover that the kick through hyperspace hadn’t killed him. He was now six light-years from the place that the Earth would have been if it still existed.
Now I realise I’ve already tagged some people this week in an earlier meme, so I’m going to tag absolutely everyone who reads this post. If you are reading this and you own a blog, it is now your internet duty to carry the meme torch that little bit further.
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Gah! *goes off to find the nearest book to her computer…*
I'm warning you right now, it'll probably be a computer game manual or something…
Book located: World of Warcraft Dungeon Companion. See, what did I tell you?
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/11/strange...
I can't believe "It is now your internet duty" actually worked…
That was quite funny. Speaking of strange coincidences I happened to be waring my Electronic Frontiers Foundation t-shirt to the market to today and bumped into a board member of the EFA(Electonic Frontiers Australia) and we had a 10 minute convo on the federal governments plans to filter at the ISP level. Strange in the sense that in Alice Spirngs I live thousands of km from anywhere.
Actually, Sean got me too, back on the 17th or so XD I refuse to do it again, because it'll be the same book!
http://justawhisperinthewind.blogspot.com/2008/11...
Here's mine, http://sinnersaintshiksa.blogspot.com/2008/11/boo...
I only select the finest :)
Eeek, my first meme!!
It's here!
I did this on facebook the other day and the book I had was "Isaac Asimov's Guide To The Bible" and here's what I found:
"If we add up the ages, it would seem that Abram, the son of Terah, was born 292 years after the Flood, or, roughly, 2100 BC."
Interesting meme, no?
Mine was a Cool Book
By Napoleon Hill "Think & Grow Rich" Needing that motivation lately, I have
The Law of autosuggestion, through which any person may rise to altitudes of achievement which stagger imagination, is well described in the following verses:
If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not you don't.
If you like to win but you think you can't it is almost certain you won't.
If you think, you'll loose, your lost, for out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellows WILL — It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are, you've got to think high to rise, you've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or the fastest man, but soon or late the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Dudes my battles are largely in the mental realm, Fighting Mind Control USA now for 9 years, leaving with my self pretty much intact. Knowing just a touch of that switch could wipe me out, well that is the fear of loosing, But fighting to keep body and mind together, Hell that's just old hat by now.
I have always known that THEY need to figure when to back off, What I have become there seems no going back from, only going forward, So I always think that keeping the thing up and never never never giving up must work, Hell the least I've done is to help them re-evaluate us all as serfs. Bet by now htey have a whole bunch that are just problem children
Winning is everything, even when they know it all. Dudes Fighting's Fun
http://blog.undeadsoftware.com/2009/07/book-thing/
Done and Done