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- _niko0
Heresy trial called off as Atheist minister allowed to keep her job.
https://www.cp24.com/news/atheis…
good on her, I think she's on the right track here, teach the message of christ almost like a philosophy on life separate from any supernatural nonsense.
- not sure why she would want to be a christian minister if she's been an atheist for years, but okaymonospaced
- "Both parties took a long look at the cost-benefit at running a heresy trial..."Gnash
- she should just quit, ffs. why should the church have to pay her to run free motivational classes their space.Gnash
- lol, good point, hadn't looked at it like that i guess id be like running a nike store while selling starbury's or something_niko
- also, the United church would ordain a houseplant. serves them rightGnash
- jaylarson1
- any sane person wouldmonospaced
- Ricky Gervais Chooses Fogs Over...?!oey
- hoppa742
- I believe a precedent has been set...next time those Jehovahs Witnesses come round things are gonna be different.Morning_star
- such a fascinating island. suggested that they've been isolated for up to 50K years. they've yet to discover fire making.Gnash
- Agree, it’s amazing, no farming either. Amazing where the sharing of our collective knowledge has brought the rest of us._niko
- Also they were obviously seafarers at one point in their history but they've lost that knowledge?_niko
- their canoes can only do shallow water. perhaps 50K years ago the islands were much closer together (vis sea level variance)Gnash
- the in-breeding, though...Gnash
- Fascinating. I'm going to the andaman islands in a few weeks actually. Not there. I'll just profess my love for jesus on the safe islandsset
- safe trip. bring a shieldGnash
- What a selfish cocksucker. Good outcome.PhanLo
- A "volley of arrows", seems appropriate.futurefood
- I wonder what they believe in? what their gods are if any. They might have knowledge of neighbouring islands but little else. No idea how big their world is_niko
- to them, since all invaders have been repelled, they are masters of the universe, they have no idea they can be wiped out in the blink of an eye with no effort_niko
- I often think that our planet is like their island and we humans collectively are the Sentinelese ignorantly hurtling through space._niko
- I wonder what they make of helicopters or power boats? Probably what we make of Oumuamua lol._niko
- well, they make arrrow heads from the metal they scavenge from abandoned boatsGnash
- I think hollywood needs to make a feel good movie about a john candy character who takes the Sentinelese archery team to the olympics. Hilarity ensues when_niko
- ..they murder everyone lol._niko
- "Sentinelese songs contain just two notes and they can only count up to two above which they call everything else many. Their only form of art is body painting"Gnash
- "More than 100 of the Sentinelese live in palm-built lean-tos around the island, yet they have no community structure, no chiefs and no witchdoctors."Gnash
- "Their way of life is comparable to that of humans 15,000 years ago; it is possible that they have not evolved any further because they simply did not have to."Gnash
- interesting, they could have been way more advanced technologically in the past but distilled their way of life down to the bare necessities._niko
- ^^ Trilokinath Pandit, a director of the Anthropological Survey of IndiaGnash
- with no record keeping of any kind I guess it's impossible to build on progress. If we could drop some cameras on the island I'd watch the shit out of that show_niko
- thanks Gnash just watched this vid, fascinating. their mannerisms, expressions etc are no different than ours really
https://www.youtube.…_niko - They'll probably exist 1000's of years after our modern civilisation crumbles too.PhanLo
- God had a plan for himdrgs
- _niko8
- lol. what's this from?Gnash
- American Gods_niko
- Brilliant show, look up Orlando Jones' speechhelloeatbreathedrive
- would look better if the arrows would burn.neverscared
- https://www.nytimes.…utopian
- That happened to me last week.PublicVoice
- Ramanisky23
So I’m watching this crazy documentary about Jonestown and this commercial pops up .. no shit.
- confession: I would sign up shitty coworkers for samples of this and other junk mail.bezoar
- sarahfailin0
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/25/a…
This 27 year old man-child came from Washington state to this remote Indian island to evangelize a protected group of indigenous people. He shouted at them 'I love you! Jesus loves you!'They drove him back with arrows twice, shooting one through his Bible, before they killed him when he returned a third time.
This guy is an asshole for needlessly exposing the island to modern germs to which the people there have no resistance.
- PhanLo5
- I'm glad they've made this. I hope Sam Harris is a little less bombastic in his criticisms and he doesn't over inflate the problem of immigration in Europe.Morning_star
- Fucking communication. Right on!jagara
- _niko9
Einstein's Famous God Letter sells for $2.9 million
Princeton, 3. 1. 1954
Dear Mr Gutkind,
Inspired by Brouwer's repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me. What struck me was this: with regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from ego-oriented desires, for making life beautiful and noble, with an emphasis on the purely human element. This unites us as having an "unAmerican attitude."
Still, without Brouwer's suggestion I would never have gotten myself to engage intensively with your book because it is written in a language inaccessible to me. The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and whose thinking I have a deep affinity for, have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything "chosen" about them.
In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the privilege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision, probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolization. With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.
Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, i.e; in our evaluations of human behavior. What separates us are only intellectual "props" and "rationalization" in Freud's language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.
With friendly thanks and best wishes,
Yours,
A. Einstein
- He doesn't seem at all ambiguous about his full disbelief and disdain for religion. Interesting, as many religious people like to quote that he did believe.monospaced
- do we have a super hi res? ;)helloeatbreathedrive
- To be fair you don't need to be Einstein to figure out the giant sky monster isn't real.yuekit
- no but it always makes you feel smarter when people with higher brain functions have the same opinion on something as you.sted
- first time reading, and i'm more interested in the reply. its a nicely said fuck you and your religion, but we still can be friends if you cut the bullshit.sted
- lol, +1 yuekitfadein11
- very interesting read. thank you!
So good that Einstein did give a fu.. about religion!api - wait, there is something missing in the translation from the original i think when i read a high quality link http://media.zenfs.c…api
- again High Res Link: http://media.zenfs.c…api
- missing translation https://imgur.com/ga…api
- ah api thanks for the high res!sted
- Morning_star-2
Just so we're clear.
Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood.[1] Einstein stated that he believed in the pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza.[2] He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve.[3] He clarified however that, "I am not an atheist",[4] preferring to call himself an agnostic,[5] or a "religious nonbeliever."[3] Einstein also stated he did not believe in life after death, adding "one life is enough for me."[6]
- Regardless of the label it sounds like his views align pretty closely with what most modern day atheists/ agnostics believe.yuekit
- "A conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality and intelligibility of the world....represents my conception of God"yuekit
- (from your link) ... sounds almost like something Richard Dawkins would come up with.yuekit
- It does. Although, if you suggested to Dawkins he was Agnostic i think he'd throw a spaz. It's probably closer to where Sam Harris is at the moment.Morning_star
- We can all agree that he does not believe in the traditional Christian creator, and therefore, was not religious in any traditional sense, in any way.monospaced
- drgs0
https://www.wsj.com/articles/eme…
Lab-grown meat has sparked a debate among rabbis in Israel about whether cell-cultured is the same as conventional meat and should fall under the same guidelines for keeping kosher.
"There is a disagreement about it and there is a conversation. Also, definitely, there are new questions about lab-meat," says Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, an expert on kosher tradition and bioethics.
- chukkaphob3
- You're going straight to hell!BusterBoy
- jesus is a goddam junkie for the smacksarahfailin
- and that's how he gets to "walk on water"chukkaphob
- Nunchuks and a skull and random playing cards. This guy is a badass.i_monk
- Maybe he was a hitman for hire, but he wanted more..futurefood
- Wait your turn, Jesus — you're not being very Youian.Nairn
- Jesus looks so American.NBQ00
- whose arm is it tho?Krassy
- hold my beer.ApeRobot
- Whats the message of this painting?Bennn
- When you shoot up drugs, you're hurting Jesus.i_monk
- this is fucking hilariousmonospaced