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Please, Mr. Einstein [ reviewed ]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, December 17, 2006 | reviewed by Reagan Upshaw

Posted on 12/18/2006 10:16:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Using Einstein's recorded utterances, Carrière crafts a loving if slightly idealized portrait of a great man. (Einstein's failed marriage and his indifferent parenting are alluded to only offhandedly, and there is no mention of what his otherworldliness must have cost those around him.) Because of his search for understanding and his recognition of the human being's place in the cosmos, we find Einstein still very much a needed figure for our times, with nationalism still virulent, religious conflict occupying more and more space in the newspapers, and the awful prospect of atomic weapons in the hands of zealots.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: stringtheory

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1 posted on 12/18/2006 10:16:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; FairOpinion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...
Oh, c'mon, I had to...

2 posted on 12/18/2006 10:16:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Don't bother, I haven't updated my profile since 11/16/06. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

with nationalism still virulent, religious conflict occupying more and more space in the newspapers, and the awful prospect of atomic weapons in the hands of zealots.

= = =

NOTE: The globalists will be beating these drums increasingly incessantly toward obliterating and/or turning upside down all such things:


1. Nationalism . . . evidently, beginning with the USA and the North American Union

2. Religions--especially Christianity. They seem to be setting up Islam to remove a bunch and then will, in the end remove Islam in favor of worship of the world ruler. The Bible is quite clear on that latter issue.

3. They'll use atomic weapons and their scheduled use "by zealots" to motivate the masses to accept the above as well as a world government to make us safe from ourselves and to handle/cope with/negotiate with/fight ET.


3 posted on 12/18/2006 10:27:08 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: SunkenCiv
My favorite Einstein book is Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

The author drives the guy who autopsied Einstein from Princeton to Los Angeles with the brain in a Tupperware container.

Really.

(95 reviews @ the link)

4 posted on 12/18/2006 11:10:22 PM PST by skeptoid (BS, AE, AA)
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Wow, thanks for ruining Tupperware for me. ;')


5 posted on 12/19/2006 8:25:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Don't bother, I haven't updated my profile since 11/16/06. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: skeptoid

Didn't it spoil?

(The Tupper-wared brain, I mean)


6 posted on 12/19/2006 8:27:07 AM PST by bannie
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To: bannie

formaldehyde


7 posted on 12/19/2006 8:34:21 AM PST by skeptoid (BS, AE, AA)
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To: skeptoid

aaaah, thank you.

(Yes, I really am that dumb!)


8 posted on 12/19/2006 8:40:31 AM PST by bannie
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To: SunkenCiv
Einstein still very much a needed figure for our times

Political correctness would have sunk his career if he were around now.

9 posted on 12/19/2006 8:44:52 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: bannie

Oh, ...pshaw!


10 posted on 12/19/2006 4:30:05 PM PST by skeptoid (BS, AE, AA)
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