re: Cooking Aubrey's Goose
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Sat, 8 Feb 1997 12:00:36 -0800
>"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or
>has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I
>nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical
>death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such
>thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and
>with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the
>existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a
>portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in
>nature."
>[Albert Einstein,_The World as I See It_]
>
> "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
>reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
>[Albert Einstein]
>
I wanted to bring out this particular portion of your post. Here we have
Einstein with his message above, yet he didn't believe that chance or chaos
created the world. So there are only two ways for the universe to have been
created. You figure it out.
Aubrey
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