Burn,
Maybe you could display it in the same case as your rare "Age of Reason".
A bit too rich for me. It is tax season.
Anyway, the Bloomsbury Book Auctions always make much more on their high end items than they project. I bet this reaches 50K.
HS
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Einstein on God....Rare Letter At Auction
by hillary_step inthis rare letter gives us a good insight into the 'religious' views of einstein, oft quoted by mainstream religionists in the hope that they could glean from him some allusion to his belief in a conventional 'god'.. why his views on god or even the rear end of marilyn monroe would be of much interest has always eluded me, but it is just as well that we all know that einstein did not believe in any god, at least not in the conventional sense, so that defenders of the bible and a god free of sociopathy are not tempted to haul his einsteined majesty before the court of debate again.. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20080513/einstein_letter_080513/20080513?hub=scitech.
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Einstein on God....Rare Letter At Auction
by hillary_step inthis rare letter gives us a good insight into the 'religious' views of einstein, oft quoted by mainstream religionists in the hope that they could glean from him some allusion to his belief in a conventional 'god'.. why his views on god or even the rear end of marilyn monroe would be of much interest has always eluded me, but it is just as well that we all know that einstein did not believe in any god, at least not in the conventional sense, so that defenders of the bible and a god free of sociopathy are not tempted to haul his einsteined majesty before the court of debate again.. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20080513/einstein_letter_080513/20080513?hub=scitech.
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Vinny,
I know that you seem to have trouble deciphering the most simple of statements, but I cannot help you with this one as it is so simple that even you should be able to comprehend it. As you do not seem to be able to, I suspect that the reason is that it is your good self who frequently puts Einstein on a pair of rollerskates and pushed him onstage in one of your more ludicrous attempts to prove the existence of your particular notion of God and the validity of 'its' embarrassingly compromised 'Word'.
Einstein did not believe in a 'conventional' idea of God, as I noted. He describes the Bible and its God of theology as childish and the expression and product of human weakness.
Only you could see a bolstering of your own beliefs in his facile and contradictory statements regarding religion and of course. You are not bright enough to note that the reason that I posted this thread was to suggest that anything Einstein may have said about religion is suspect, hence my Marilyn Monroe comment, but no surprises there.
The only thing that we can be sure of is his 'God' is very different from your own, as his his view of the Bible, so perhaps you had better stop using him as an example to fellow Christians lest another letter be discovered that suggests he only talked about God when he needed money for his next project. ;)
HS
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Einstein on God....Rare Letter At Auction
by hillary_step inthis rare letter gives us a good insight into the 'religious' views of einstein, oft quoted by mainstream religionists in the hope that they could glean from him some allusion to his belief in a conventional 'god'.. why his views on god or even the rear end of marilyn monroe would be of much interest has always eluded me, but it is just as well that we all know that einstein did not believe in any god, at least not in the conventional sense, so that defenders of the bible and a god free of sociopathy are not tempted to haul his einsteined majesty before the court of debate again.. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/articlenews/story/ctvnews/20080513/einstein_letter_080513/20080513?hub=scitech.
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This rare letter gives us a good insight into the 'religious' views of Einstein, oft quoted by mainstream religionists in the hope that they could glean from him some allusion to his belief in a conventional 'God'.
Why his views on God or even the rear end of Marilyn Monroe would be of much interest has always eluded me, but it is just as well that we all know that Einstein did not believe in any God, at least not in the conventional sense, so that defenders of the Bible and a God free of sociopathy are not tempted to haul His Einsteined Majesty before the Court of Debate again.
HS
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Can Hermann Hesse Be Considered A "Prophet."
by Rapunzel ini just finished reading hesse's steppenwolf; and as anyone who has read it can tell you, it is a truly vertiginous book.
it makes the reader dizzy for several reasons, including the fact that it is full of profound psychological, aesthetic, and cultural insights.
it is also dizzying due to its continually shifting narrative perspective.
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Burn,
HS, I find it amazing that someone as gifted and intelligent as you could get sucked into the JWs. Mind boggling, and I hope I don't sound offensive.
No offence taken. It boggles my own mind too, but times were very different back then. The Sixties were an exciting time of experimentation, perhaps I just took the experiment too far and in the wrong direction. I should have stuck to drugs. ;)
I have actually met some very intelligent JW's who are just, as I was, very stupid about certain things. I think those who were 'born in', like Narkissos, alanF and Duncan for example, have far less reason to be puzzled at why they, as exceptionally intelligent people, became attached to such a high-control religion, but as for myself, I honestly have no clue. Perhaps intelligence is not the issue, but idealism is, who knows.
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Can Hermann Hesse Be Considered A "Prophet."
by Rapunzel ini just finished reading hesse's steppenwolf; and as anyone who has read it can tell you, it is a truly vertiginous book.
it makes the reader dizzy for several reasons, including the fact that it is full of profound psychological, aesthetic, and cultural insights.
it is also dizzying due to its continually shifting narrative perspective.
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I am ashamed to admit that I read all of Herman Hesse in the late 1960's including 'Wanderung', before I became a JW. Why I became a JW is another story. I always blame the riots in Paris in the Spring of 1968 for unnerving me enough to become cult fodder - I have to blame something after all. ;)
The books of Hesse had a dramatic effect on me, especially in my teenage years and I tried to imbue what I described as a 'melancholy hopefulness' in many of my songs and some of my poetry at the time, a feeling which I gained from the writings of Hesse, especially 'Narziz and Goldmund'. I am especially attracted to his descriptions of nature, 'the Springs winds moaning in heavy air', 'the birch leaves falling as the curling dreams of the night'.
Siddhartha is of course his classic and it should be on the reading list of every emerging JW as it opens minds that have been closed too long to a bigger and more mysterious world. I am happy to own all his books in the true first German editions, including a very rare pamphlet that he printed in 1913 and which I am able to find out very little about.
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...and the JWD beat goes on...
by hillary_step inburn the ships: osama bin laden has long blonde hair and a tattoo of jesus on the left orb of his arse.. hs : no he has not...got long blonde hair i mean.. burn the ships: you admire osama so why should we believe you?
in fact as you admire osama why should we believe that god does not exist or that the republican party is not a gigantic cuban string vest?.
hs: where have i said i admired osama burn?.
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Flying,
Thank you for your diligence.
I only wish that my veracity was established before Kings and Princes rather than Burn and Journey on...lol
HS
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Personal Experience I've Never Shared - I Hope it Helps Some Here !
by flipper ino. k. how do i start ?
i will preface the start of this first by saying this happened many years ago - in 1985 when i had just become a new father myself to my dear son flipper junior, i'll call him.
when i explain this to you, some of this may appear comical, in fact, now that i overcame it years ago, i can laugh at it, but when you see the totality of the story- when it happened then to me- it was no laughing matter.
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Flipper,
These were guys I considered my friends , and here they are trying to pull my underwear off, in front of the 8 to 10 year old boys and slap my a$$ ! I fought like hell ! 3 of them couldn't bring me down ! I kicked and yelled , and told them to stop, knock it off, but they just kept at it ! Finally 4 of them held me down, and with my bare a$$ exposed they spanked me in front of the 8 to 10 year old boys watching. Talk about humiliating ! I was so mad I could spit
I must say that it was out of order to do this in front of your son.
Perhaps they thought that you took yourself a little to seriously and were trying in their own ham-fisted way to get you to loosen up a little.
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President Obama and a Democrat Congress Will....
by owenfieldreams in1) raise taxes, and not just capital gains.
income taxes will be raised as well.
and if you make more than $200k/yr, you are "rich", and defined as such you will get soaked; thus, you will have little incentive to keep earning what you do now,--the opportunity to make a nice profit will simply not be there....and all of us working stiffs fortunate enough to make over $50 k/ yr, you better hold on to your wallets as well... we are going to pay for the social security bailout.
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Burn,
Sacco and Vanzetti hold a larger place in the imagination "over there" where HS is posting from. There were riots in Europe after the American judge handed the verdict.
God Burn, I am so tired of correcting you all the time. For Pete's sakes when you read a post, read it carefully. Think about it, then head for your Wikipedia paradise. I suspect that you had not heard of Sacco and Vanzetti until this morning. I state this as when I mentioned them you tried to minimize the part that they played in US politics and the Socialist movement in the US after their execution, minimized I suggest through an ignorance of the actual facts. You then raced around the Internet looking for information.
Sure there were marches all around the world. This further indicates that these two men were not as you suggested a mere blip in the American Dream, but this is not relevant anyway.
I stated that there were marches, some 100,000 strong in the US. Boston for example had 25,000 march in protest at the execution. There were marches and riots in the US and you had better accpet this rather than try your usual intellectually dishonest and proud attempts to obfuscate the issues.
They were, incidentally, Anarchists.
Yeah...well read...lol. Thank God for Wikipedia aye?
Problem is, that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter. Their deaths galvanized the Socialist groups that had previously been splintered and garnered sympathy from a previously opposed public.
Thinking on your feet like some street-corner skunk-pusher might impress some people Burn, but I find it bloody irritating - so save it for others.
As I keep telling you, you are capable of better than this, so stop acting the Wikipidiot.
HS
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...and the JWD beat goes on...
by hillary_step inburn the ships: osama bin laden has long blonde hair and a tattoo of jesus on the left orb of his arse.. hs : no he has not...got long blonde hair i mean.. burn the ships: you admire osama so why should we believe you?
in fact as you admire osama why should we believe that god does not exist or that the republican party is not a gigantic cuban string vest?.
hs: where have i said i admired osama burn?.
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Stilla,
you forgot to mention my sexual frustration HS
lol....that is true, but I got you first time around.
HS
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...and the JWD beat goes on...
by hillary_step inburn the ships: osama bin laden has long blonde hair and a tattoo of jesus on the left orb of his arse.. hs : no he has not...got long blonde hair i mean.. burn the ships: you admire osama so why should we believe you?
in fact as you admire osama why should we believe that god does not exist or that the republican party is not a gigantic cuban string vest?.
hs: where have i said i admired osama burn?.
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beks,
Hillary, your "real one" didn't have a single reference to christianity, or how god will smite Osama's wig. Your R. Crusoe was far too straightforward. And your Burn was too polite.
lol...I am glad that at least I do not have to explain the parody at the heart of my post to everyone. We used to regularly have 'A day In the Life Of JWD' as a thread in the past, just to prove that each time we log in we play with insanity. Farkel was the master, but I suspect that even he would have been taken seriously.
What can I say....Lord, the world is going to the humans.
HS