Creation Museum

[Castle]

Castle really does have a persecution complex. I doubt our Spanish would be any better but at least we would state from the outset that we are trying to learn the language I am thinking.

You quoted twice: "Castle really dose have a persecution complex" Which has negative meanings, Like the whole world is against you, a sort of paranoia form of mental illness yet may function fairly well in society.

"We are trying to learn the language":Ah..Un pazzo Intellegente OR Non e pazzo, veramente.:

It's not the words , it the Attitude and behavior that matters. Where you guys come off with all these blinded, nonsensical, downing comments anyways. Is that what they teach you here, then reward you with kudos?

How would it be possible for me to have this irrational fear that other people are plotting my downfall? You don’t take in any consideration about my character, which has managed to win hundreds of international competition in sports and in the arts. ( Welsh noted a little) Yet all secondary to what really matters, loving what you do. You think I was full of fear and paranoia traveling or working in the 94 countries, nahhh. I must admit being mugged by 40 monkeys had me on the ropes.

Only got rid of two very negative people in my life, GW Bush and my ex Aztec Mexican wife. Everything else has been base on grounded good sense and responsible for all of my own actions.
I’ve said repenting, not against anyone because everyone is god. Things were going along OK on this forum until I quoted atheist downside is lame imagination and pre warned you all. This comment had me kicked off 3 different atheist sites. So many atheists went through the roof and not one atheist replied with not one downside about atheists. You talk about PARANOIA!!!? In which only confirms my theory. What do I care about kudos points so I too can badger other monolithic religions, what would I win, nothing.

Cool it baby! Live and let live, yet still question the hell out them.Just because I find Atheist and monolithic religion extreme, they also define my middle ground balance better than anything else. Even within my own immediate family, a pastor brother and an atheist mother we still love each other very much. Being an artist who works mostly in historical and fantasy topics, Atheist would think I’m utterly ungrounded in reality. Yet, can ensure you, it’s always wise to have one foot firmly on the ground and would not ever hurt you. The main purpose of leaving the forum is that I’m too busy building this eco village and want to explore and research with other kinds of groups.

[The Grand Nudger]

If you're wondering where the comments spring from, it probably has something to do with statements like "We are all god", or insinuating that there is some middle ground between what exists and what does not. Without providing any evidence for either claim. We know more about your monkey wrestling escapades than why you make these claims. There are still others, such as atheists having no imagination, which are so ridiculous that you deserve ridicule for offering them up. It wouldn't matter what language you offered them up in. You could be speaking !kung and I could be criticizing you in swahili. It would still be the same exchange. You're right, it's not the words, but it's not even the behavior or attitude either. It's the evidence that matters.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Of course I must admit that Castle is the spitting image of his skydaddie:

he makes BIG promises all the time and never ever fulfills them.

[ElDinero]

I'm sure he said something about leaving. More empty promises.

[Welsh cake]

God in all and all in God? Oh please, not that nonsensical poetic garbage again...

Where's a barf smiley when you need one?

How would it be possible for me to have this irrational fear that other people are plotting my downfall? You don’t take in any consideration about my character, which has managed to win hundreds of international competition in sports and in the arts.

I agree, so in commemoration of your brilliantly 'insightful final post' and unrivalled 'intuition' I'm pleased to present you with yet another award to add to your already impressive collection of accomplishments.

Cherish it well and don't forget to include it on your ever growing résumé.

[Castle]

[quote='Castle' pid='182797' dateline='1316829066']Where in that letter did Einstein claim he is an atheist.
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In fact where did Einstein write, show me one thing where Einstein claimed he is an atheist. Other than what atheists for obvious reason, claimed him as an atheist.

Here:
[quote]The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses,

Monolithical religion can help weak minds yet to dominated the world, then I too , find much of this true, I lack monothical belief in GOD also, dose that make me an atheist?

"Not believing and/or worshipping a god makes one an atheist. "

Out of context again. Einstein was born a jew, swictching views, agnostic theist, a deist, pantheism, or to agnostic yet never self proclaim himself as an atheist, why would he be afraid to say so , he lived in America too, land of the free. If Einstein was not deeply religion why did Dawkins claim he is deeply religion like Einstein was?


I’ve been given many list of greatest atheist in human history by many atheist, on average half of these great atheist men, are not self proclaim atheist either that or I am not doing my non bias paying job right in the history display museum..

"Quoted In his last days Einstein made it transparently clear he did not believe in any god"

Show me the third hand me down letter that said so or claim he was an atheist?

You can take the 99% unknown world and Universe and boil it all down to “ if you don't believe in a single deity or deities you are by default, an atheist, whether you accept that term/label or not is irrelevant. I'm sorry but you can't have both.” WOW! You can do that, I can just throw my mind into the garage and follow you, thank GOD.

The point is, how do you know the 'unknowable' in the whole context in GOD, all I know is what this godlike imagination dose work for my personal growth. Then why do atheist tell me I am totally nuts to think that there could be a god yet I don’t claim to know all about god that would be avastive and deluted. If Einstein was intentionally ambiguous how do you know for sure he is an atheist? It's easy for someone well versed in English or German to misunderstood, like in my case also.

[The Grand Nudger]

Quzote tizags mah nizzle (take that babelfish!)

[Cyberman]

Regarding Einstein and religion: the following is quoted verbatim from The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature by Heinz R. Pagels, in the chapter headed "The Last Classical Physicist":

Einstein’s mother and father encouraged the young boy’s curiosity. In a psychoanalytic study of Einstein’s childhood, Erik Erikson called him “Albert, the victorious child.” Something in Einstein’s character and upbringing encouraged a profound sense of trust in the universe and life. That trust and the confidence it brings is the foundation of the autonomous mind living at the boundary of human knowledge.

His family had a liberal secular orientation. They were not especially intellectual but they respected learning and loved music. His parents, not being religiously observant, sent the young boy to a Catholic school, where he became involved with the ritual and symbolism of religion. This involvement was not to last. He wrote about his early emotional and intellectual odyssey from religion towards science when he was sixty-seven. These “Autobiographical Notes” display a simplicity and strength that characterizes his prose:

"Even when I was a fairly precocious young man the nothingness of the hopes and strivings which chases most men restlessly through life came to my consciousness with considerable vitality. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. Moreover, it was possible to satisfy the stomach by such participation, but not man in so far as he is a thinking and feeling being. As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came – despite the fact that I was the son of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents – to a deep religiosity, which, however, found an abrupt ending at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a sceptical attitude towards the convictions which were alive in any specific social environment – an attitude which has never again left me, even though later on, because of a better insight into the casual connections, it has lost some of its original poignancy.

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the ‘merely personal,’ from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspections and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in devoted occupation with it. The mental grasp of this extra-personal world within the frame of the given possibilities swam as highest aim half consciously and half unconsciously before my mind’s eye. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past, as well as the insights which they had achieved, were the friends which could not be lost. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has proved itself as trustworthy, and I have never regretted having chosen it."

What this passage reveals is a conversion from personal religion to the ‘cosmic religion’ of science, an experience which changed him for the rest of his life. Einstein saw that the universe is governed by laws that can be known by us but that are independent of our thoughts and feelings.

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

Based on earlier posts, I feel the need to point out that I am a painter, and an atheist. It may be that atheistic artists are less common because they feel as if they have a 'gift', and are therefore more open to religion.

[downbeatplumb]

I am fairly sure Bansky will not turn out to be a fundamentalist christian.

Gilbert from gilbert and sullivan, (the comic opera people) was an atheist.
He was once at a party where a lot of clergy were present and quipped.
"I feel like a lion in a den of daniels"