The Idiot-in-Chief will bankrupt us

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Mav88, May 28, 2009.

  1. "The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
    ( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)

    Also, if you think einstein never had doubts about what God did or was or even existed you haven't read about the cosmological constant.
     
    #41     May 29, 2009
  2. First of all the evolution and creationism debate is stupid to begin with. They are attempting to answer different questions.

    It is not safe to make general assumptions based on proven facts. General assumptions and proven facts have a funny way being completely false. Look at general assumptions and proven facts of the past. The earth is flat was a provable fact. The earth is the center of the universe was a provable fact. So flat earthers like you, who do not have a skeptical view of the world really box yourselves in and you have no freedom of the mind.
     
    #42     May 29, 2009
  3. the flat earth idea was based on a reading of the bible. kind of silly to try and use it to imply the you religious types are open minded.
     
    #43     May 29, 2009
  4. this seems pretty clear to me. you people are always trying to get famous people on your side after they are dead and cant deny it.
    "Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday."
     
    #44     May 29, 2009
  5. That's pretty good. I like it. But read it objectively. It has nothing to do with the existence of, or belief in, a deity. If anything, it supports my earlier point that Einstein was a pantheist who, in his wonderment, essentially referred to nature as god. The "mystical" is the as yet unknown and, therefore, the "sower of all true science," as man endeavors to learn more about the world around him and how it works. And that, to Einstein, was a spiritual thing to which he devoted his life. No argument there.
     
    #45     May 29, 2009


  6. When it comes to questions universal, human knowledge is minute. We don't know shit in the grand scheme of things, and when you look at from a universal level, who simply ain't all that important. You self rightous libs, really have to get over yourselves. Running around saying that you did a rational analysis of things and figured it out is really arrogant.
     
    #46     May 29, 2009
  7. "you people", Which people? I'm not the one advocating a THEORY. You are the one believing with all your might. You are the one who clings to some form of unproven ideas to fulfill a psychological need. Maybe one day a perfect, all encompassing theory of the universe will be quantified. Until then, I prefer to stand on the sidelines and watch the dogmatists believers (you, Christians, muslims etc) fight it out to no end.
     
    #47     May 29, 2009
  8. Right, it wasn't mean to prove anything other than what you noted.
     
    #48     May 29, 2009
  9. We may not know much, but it's all we got. Close your mind to your cognitive reasoning capabilities, suspend your critical faculties, and you know even less; you don't move forward.
     
    #49     May 29, 2009
  10. Can you imagine the ignorance level of someone who asks you to provide a formal proof for a negative?



    Reality is not a belief. We do not take it on faith, it confirms itself whenever we see physics, chemistry, biology etc. working as predicted by their various empirically obtained rules. - Sternwallow
     
    #50     May 29, 2009