Week Fourteen: Science Fiction Parody and Satire

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

What is the meaning of life? How many times have you asked yourself that question? How important is knowing the answer? The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy seems to revolve around these questions. This book tries to flip your preconceived thoughts about the meaning of life on its head to make you really think deeply about yourself and your importance in anything. We are nothing but a spec in the whole scheme of things, but yet when someone does you wrong it is the end of the world to you. Why? Why do we think we are so important?

People have a natural longing to know the answer to the meaning of life. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this is addressed. Arthur confesses that he has had this feeling that everything must have meant more. Slartibartfast explains that everyone has that feeling and it means nothing, nothing means anything. This book is just trying to get you to think, but if nothing means anything then why do anything? The belief that this world, the people on it, and the choices we make matters is not just a delusion to make ourselves feel important, it’s a belief and faith that what we do matters and we have a significance to the greater good.


As a Christian, I believe that God has put every one of us on this earth for a reason. It is your choice weather to do what you were put on this earth to do or not. The fact that the creator of everything chose and has a plan for every single human being on this earth is beautiful. This is something I really believe in, not because it gives me a sense of hope and security, but because it’s evident in everything around us. I have faith in this, what do you believe?

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