Posted by Ted (152.163.205.71) on August 11, 2001 at 15:45:37:
In Reply to: Is this the way it is supposed to be? posted by skylark on August 11, 2001 at 14:31:35:
THE MEANING OF LIFE
Why are we here, what's life
all about?
Is God really real, or is there some doubt?
Well tonight we,re going to sort it
all out,
For tonight it's the Meaning of Life.
What's the point of all this hoax?
Is it the chicken and the egg time,
are we just yolks?
Or perhaps we're just one of God's
little jokes,
Well ca c'est the Meaning of Life.
Is life just a game where we make
up the rules,
While we're searching for
something to say,
Or are we just simply
spiralling coils,
Of self-replicating DNA?
In this life, What is our fate?
Is there Heaven and hell? Do we
reincarnate?
Is mankind evolving or is it too late?
Well tonight here's the Meaning of Life.
For millions this is a sad
vale of tears,
Sitting round with nothing to say,
While scientists say we're just
simply spiralling coils,
of self-replicating DNA,
So just why, why are we here?
And just what,what,what,what
do we fear?
Well ce soir, for a change,
it will be made clear,
For this is the Meaning of Life
-c'est le sens de la vie,
This is the Meaning of Life.
Or, maybe your answer is in the movie's closing scene:
LADY PRESENTER:
Well, that's the end of the film. Now, here's the meaning of life. Thank you, Brigitte. M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special.
Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations, and, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their fucking arses and back in the sodding cinema. Family entertainment bollocks. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats-- Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight.
VOICE OF MAN IN PINK: [singing]
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth