Remember when the owner of the domain name mono.net was in a relationship and they split up, and she went on holidays and he lifted her entire user database for his own dreams of an online musical magazine?

Allegedly.

How infrequently does one have to blog for it to be irrelevant...

I just got back to this again.

More of the same really.

*A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. *

I tend to base my opinion of someone's belief structure on as wide a range of source material as possible, combined with the over-arching philosophy of their work, their personal life, their interaction with others, and the opinions of those who knew them.

Then I screw it up in a little ball and throw it in the trash, because it doesn't really matter what I think of someone else's belief structure.

But my favourite part of that particular quote was this: ''I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being''.

I'd love to meet someone who was a fuckload more advanced and way ahead of his humility.

That film with Walter Matthau and Tim Robbins was amusing. Who knew Einstein's niece was like Meg Ryan when she was still cute?

I don't think I'd have called him an atheist or an agnostic.

I'd have gone for ''Herr Einstein'' or possibly ''Albert''.

Actually the quotation is as I wrote it, from a letter dated 1949. And there is nothing inconclusive about it, he is clearly stating, in no uncertain terms, that he does not believe in god.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal god is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervour is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being

--Einstein, 1949

Your hairs, let me split them.

HEY STINKY!!!!!!! YOU STINK!!!!!!!

*spray can of deodorant until it runs out*

*in his face*

Einstein was an atheist.

Are you sincerely suggesting that the Pagan philosophers based their thinking on Judaeo-Christian ethics?