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Einstein Letter Goes on Sale
ErkDemon writes "For any Slashdotters who want a piece of frameable Einstein memorabilia, a letter from A.E. to Eric Gutkind goes on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions today (May 15th). The content of the letter mostly deals with Einstein's views on religion. (Einstein pronounces himself rather unimpressed by the whole idea and rejects it as "childish.") The Guardian has printed a translated excerpt from the letter."
.. believing is .. the same as not believing.
Since, you still believe. You believe that there's God or you believe that there isnt a God.
Anyway, objectivization of God is not good (but some people like that), and I think Einstein said that he don't believe in "the man on the sky with a beard", but he hasn't been specific about it.
Anyway, IMHO, the only true path is to doubt/question everything, but it's easyer to believe that someone is watching us, and that we will "live" after death, since it gives us a meaning and security.
God is the mind of the universe. Is that better?
Or, God is the collective mind of all beings in the universe. Is this more clear?
And this mind intelligently designed the universe.
Well, naturally. Spend enough time with these people and you'll realise that everybody of interest accepted Jesus Christ on their deathbed, and renounced all the heretical doctrines for which they are famous, and said so only to some unattributable Christian who was apparently there at the very end despite appearing in no other accounts.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
The universe is just information in our minds. A far as self awareness goes, particles like electrons which flow in our brain are not exacly solid, in fact we aren't even sure if electrons are particles or waves or what they are. We just know that all thoughts come from neurons which are charged.
What you don't understand is, all of your science is based on your primitive perception yet you believe in it. But somehow when I tell you the entire universe is based on primitive perception you seem to think that this theory is impossible even when it's based on the same observation you use for scientific method?
Einstein described a Universe that needs no god to function.
Heck, he wrote formulas about it.
Things in the universe just work, no god required.
If you don't understand why the opinion of such person is important we can't help you there.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
So he should have phrased it differently?
"A mythical invisible bearded man does not play dice with the universe."
If atheism is a religion, than bald is a hair color.
So the atheists are trying to beat on the theists by proving that a really smart guy was one of them?
No, it's to lay to rest, once and for all, the idea that Einstein was a theist. He wasn't. Get over it.
And try getting over your martyr complex while you're at it.
The letter is interesting, the full version even more so, but it would be very helpful to read the letter that he is responding to. It sounds to me as if he's answering a specific question.
I also wonder if this whole issue as to what einstein's religious beliefs were isn't driven almost entirely by his famous god and dice quote? That single very well-known quote, and his iconic position as "greatest science genius ever" is what makes these revelations concerning his true beliefs news.
And please, moderators, don't encourage all these pointless sophomoric attempts at metaphysics, they're off-topic and tiresome, it's like Philosophy 101.
"I'm real but you're not!"
"Nothing's real unless we think it is!"
Please. It's real. It's out there. Get over your own puny monkey-brain thoughts already, would ya?