Comments on: Great Americans

By: acid_monkey1

acid_monkey1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:44:45 +0000

Well I always suppoused that north amercians have an idelogy. and that idea of mine was reinfiroced with that image. People from other places having ideas in usa and usa getin the credit for it. Ie Einstein. But i supouse Im wrong… rigth?

By: Caio

Caio — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:03:11 +0000

What ideology?

By: acid_monkey1

acid_monkey1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:52:44 +0000

well as I said before is something that I heard. but thanks for the advice. I have a cuestion to this matter. what do you mean by being american the ideology or just the birth place?
because somtimes its seems that is more important the ideology or am I wrong?

By: Sublyme

Sublyme — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:12:08 +0000

I know it’s been stated on here somewhere, but just to get this across, Einstein is quoted with saying, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe,” as a response to the theory of quantum physics. He’s also not even fucking American.

By: Kendo_Bunny

Kendo_Bunny — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:26:39 +0000

Making advances for genocide doesn’t strike me as something that should be admired. Mengele was an atheist too- I definitely wouldn’t peg him as representational of the philosophy, but that’s what he was. He made some important medical discoveries (usually purely by accident, since he was much more interested in finding out how twins “work” than he was in science).

Margaret Sanger founded PP as part of her quest to exterminate “undesirables”.

By: reboot

reboot — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:09:52 +0000

@vygramul
Here the context of that quote:
www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm
Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
He’s not really talking about God or Religion in the traditional sense.

By: vygramul

vygramul — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:03:14 +0000

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” –Einstein. That doesn’t sound like something an Atheist would say, but I’m crazy that way.

By: Caio

Caio — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:01:40 +0000

Arg, typo mania. You get the gist.

By: Caio

Caio — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:00:48 +0000

@Magnus: You’re the first person to use the word ‘Genius’ here. And considering this person seems to be looking for positive atheist role-models to prove atheist worth, than yes.

A Great Industrialist is not necessarily a Great Person. I certainly would pretend that Ford was part of my group just to score some points. Also, Margaret Sanger was a dickhead who hurt humanity by merely existing, not a genius.

@acid monkey – no no no no no. Penn and Teller and American. Alba means ‘Scotland’ in Scotish Gaelic, but his middle name was Alva. He was born in Ohio and his parents were of Dutch extraction. Billy Joel was a Jew, born and raised in Long Island (way to propagate stereotypes, Billy). Hepburn was born and died in Connecticut, she just put on a posh New England accent. lern2google

By: acid_monkey1

acid_monkey1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:45:49 +0000

Aint Penn or teller Canadian? And Thomas “alba” edison i heard that he was either spanish or someway latin-american(alba is in spanish and means dawn i belive not sure) same with billy joel as i heard. hepburn while she was alive (and young) she was really hot. and yes she was from england. by the way einstein was a religous amn(just a little) but later when the nuklear bomb exploded he become a little or complete atheist not sure.
but heck ask thier zombies.