Someone pointed out to me that feeble is spelled feeble, not feable. Since I'm not an illiterate monkey allowed access to a computer keyboard, I had to change the title of the blog, which means that this blog has a whole new address. Not that anyone reads this mindless tripe anyway.

When I was in high school, I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. Back then I didn't really catch his wit and humor, but I was able to follow the story. I've been re-reading it and now I'm catching his wit, humor, and philosophy. There's a much deeper meaning in it than I originally captured. Any digression attributed to the Hitchhiker's Guide is Douglas Adams' own philosophy on the universe. What makes this work so interesting is that he's able to portray that philosophy in a humorous manner. The use of characters to tell a story keeps the reader's interest while Adams subtley brainwashes you. A good example of this is Adams' own philosophy/belief in, what he calls, radical-athiesm. He uses an allegory of a sentient puddle of water. The water thinks to itself that it fits perfectly in the hole in which it's resting and somehow there must be a higher power in the universe that created the hole for it to rest in so perfectly. It looks up at the sky and sees the sun and starts to worship the sun and thank it for creating it and for creating the hole in which it rests. While all the time the sun is slowly contributing to the water's demise.

I'm not saying that I agree with his radical-atheism, but in a very humorous manner, Douglas Adams has described his belief and I understand his point-of-view. It takes a certain degree of genius to use such metaphorical symbolism.

Not that I could even hold a candle to Douglas Adams, but I'm going to attempt to describe things using allegories, parables, metaphors, and any other literary devices that obscure my real intent. I'll leave it to the reader to decipher the real meaning. There is one particular subject that is pressing on my mind quite a bit at the moment and I will write about it when I've had some time to consider it.

OK, so this post isn't all that funny. Like I said, who reads this mindless tripe any how? And for those that do, I spell checked it, you pedantic gits.

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