Comments on: The Answer Is Always 42 http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/ popular culture no longer applies to me Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mcarp http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3977 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:57:39 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3977 In deacons quorum a few months ago, the instructor was teaching the Plan of Salvation lesson and he asked, “Have you ever wondered what the purpose of life is? Why we are here? Why the universe exists?”

One bookish deacon replied, “42.”

I about fell off my chair laughing. When I stopped, I noticed that the bookish deacon had a pleased look on his face, but everyone else (including the two other adults) was looking at me like I should be carted off to an asylum. I said, “What? Nobody else reads Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?”

More blank stares.

]]> By: Tim http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3976 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:10:02 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3976 You clearly lack the ability to speak two languages. You just need to be who other people need you to be. For the school say “We believe the answer is 42″ if you’re somewhere else say “I know the answer is 44″. That way you can always be telling the truth.

]]> By: ff42 http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3975 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:38:56 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3975 Hey! The answer IS 42. 8-)

]]> By: Odell http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3974 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:14:36 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3974 Transfer schools.

]]> By: runtu http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3971 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:52:11 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3971 I’m happy to leave them with their answers, but I don’t get the same courtesy.

]]> By: Chris http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3970 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:08:29 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3970 Such is the ways of the religion… Coherence or reasonableness isn’t a prerequisite for religious truth. If the gods say that 4 x 11 is 42, then so be it. You just have to rely on faith.

]]> By: Course Correction http://runtu.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-answer-is-always-42/#comment-3969 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:34:11 +0000 http://runtu.wordpress.com/?p=924#comment-3969 Interesting analogy. But knowing that 4×11=44, why care that one group of people insists the answer is 42?

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