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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Bloooody(m): 12:11pm On Dec 05, 2018
priest54:
only a foolish man says in his heart that there is no God..€... you may be highly educated yet very insufficient in scholarship...where is Uty Etuk sef?
Does Albert sound any where near foolish?
You Christians are dullards.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by countryfive: 12:12pm On Dec 05, 2018
HappyPagan:
God is a mirage.


Just like man.

Stop deceiving yourself God is real
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by HappyPagan: 12:12pm On Dec 05, 2018
enemyofprogress:
ewoooooooooooo shocked shocked, his boy do you want to die young and go to hell? Kneel down let me pray for you
Jesus died young... And he was God's Son... According to that weed he smoked in the wilderness.

Long life is a privilege, death has everyone's address. You should kneel and thank me for wisdom.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Bloooody(m): 12:13pm On Dec 05, 2018
Mccullum:
He had confirmed the existence of God since when he was buried and auctioning of his letter would be reminder to angels that will use severe punishment on him in order to let him regrets his decisions of writing letter to ridiculed his creator.
So the angels will punish someone who made one of the most significant changes and help to man kind?

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Grupo(m): 12:16pm On Dec 05, 2018
priest54:
only a foolish man says in his heart that there is no God..€... you may be highly educated yet very insufficient in scholarship...where is Uty Etuk sef?

Yes o, Einstein is a very foolish man. Imagine, how could he not believe that snakes were talking in the past, donkeys were speaking, and there was a flood that destroyed the whole world? Coincidentally, all these happened in a small enclave in the middle east. Einstein the foolish man.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by TruthinAction: 12:18pm On Dec 05, 2018
PhenomenalMorgan:
The way white people auction things at super high prices marvels me, put that letter for auction in Nigeria and see if they will price it up to 200k!!

Nobody will even buy it. Will the letter put money in your pocket. Foolish letter that carries foolish content. The white men don't know what to do with money.
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Okoroawusa: 12:18pm On Dec 05, 2018
Growing up I was told that God created man in his own image.Later I found that it is

actually man that created God in his own image
God has human attributes:God is a male,God sees,God speaks,God is jealous, God is angry etc.

God has never said anything. All u have heard God said is actually man telling u that "God said"


I would really love to read this Einstein letter.Just finished Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not A Christian"

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Mccullum: 12:19pm On Dec 05, 2018
Bloooody:

So the angels will punish someone who made one of the most significant changes and help to man kind?

Yeah because God gave him the brain he used to make those changes and for him to be arrogant and denied the existence of God, it's punishable sin in the kingdom of heaven.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by CharlesJok3r: 12:22pm On Dec 05, 2018
“The word God is for me nothing but
the expression and product of human
weaknesses,” Einstein wrote.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by kazyhm(m): 12:23pm On Dec 05, 2018
kereman1:
Altho I hvnt read d Quran, and I don't know much about d religion. But I feel d Bible is a story book made up by d Roman or whatever nation, for them to blame their inefficient and shortcomings on some1 or something,
Right from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, why did he plant d apple tree in their reach?
Wat is d usefulness of d tree?
Why sud God punish every1 for one person's mistake.
Why do we have more than one religion wit diff God and method of worship.
The Bible is simply filled with stories that never existed,

I also don't believe in diabolical this, harvesting humans part for ritual, charms, all those thgs are bullshiit.


If you've read the bible, you need not read the Quran as its just names, town and language that is the major difference.

The confusion though is cultural expression in interpretation.

The beginning of the two books has no difference.....But some will argue its not. My conclusion is one was and the other was a bit modified to make it look original

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Okoroawusa: 12:24pm On Dec 05, 2018
Grupo:


Yes o, Einstein is a very foolish man. Imagine, how could he not believe that snakes were talking in the past, donkeys were speaking, and there was a flood that destroyed the whole? Coincidentally, all these happened in a small enclave in the middle east. Einstein the foolish man.
Abeg no make me laugh......

all that happened in the Bible didn't pass the middle east...Na Europeans cause all this nonsense.They left it n we Africans don carry am for head
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by NessaBoo(f): 12:24pm On Dec 05, 2018
Grupo:


Yes o, Einstein is a very foolish man. Imagine, how could he not believe that snakes were talking in the past, donkeys were speaking, and there was a flood that destroyed the whole? Coincidentally, all these happened in a small enclave in the middle east. Einstein the foolish man.

Ohhh!! You mean Noah and his amazing zoo boat. grin

Lol

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by LeHMaR(m): 12:24pm On Dec 05, 2018
PhenomenalMorgan:
The way white people auction things at super high prices marvels me, put that letter for auction in Nigeria and see if they will price it up to 200k!!
200k ke?, so i should carry my 200k and buy letter?.. Even if i win lotto.
TAA!!!, i better use am place multiple bet of 5000 odd. grin
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Okoroawusa: 12:27pm On Dec 05, 2018
kazyhm:



If you've read the bible, you need not read the Quran as its just names, town and language that is the major different.

The confusion thought is culture expression in interpretation.

The beginning of the two books has no difference.....But some will argue its not. My conclusion is one was and the other was a bit modified to make it look original
I couldn't have put it better than u have just done
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Okoroawusa: 12:28pm On Dec 05, 2018
Mccullum:


Yeah because God gave him the brain he used to make those changes and for him to be arrogant and denied the existence of God, it's punishable sin in the kingdom of heaven.
So it's no longer kingdom of hell?

una no serious

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Bloooody(m): 12:30pm On Dec 05, 2018
Mccullum:


Yeah because God gave him the brain he used to make those changes and for him to be arrogant and denied the existence of God, it's punishable sin in the kingdom of heaven.
So God was the one who made him to spend those sleepless nights studying?
Those parties he missed just to study?
The hard work he put into everything?
The sweat?
The stress?
Man some people aren't normal on this site.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Grupo(m): 12:30pm On Dec 05, 2018
NessaBoo:


Ohhh!! You mean Noah and his amazing zoo boat. grin

Lol

Are you trying to mock the word of God?
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by HappyPagan: 12:31pm On Dec 05, 2018
Grupo:


Are you trying to mock the word of God?
God couldnt have written that nonsense xalled the Bible... Just a bunch of people smoking weed and seeing strange things....

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by BlackManta(m): 12:32pm On Dec 05, 2018
HappyPagan:


Lol.

Since bad thing go happen to me, make I talk all the bad thing wey dey my mind

Jesus' mother was a lying hoe.

Jesus' father Joseph was an idiot. How will he believe his wife slept and woke up pregnant?

Jesus was a bastard. Still is... Thats why on the cross he screamed "Father, father, why have you forsaken me"?

Virgin Mary was not a virgin. Just like the Bible is not a Good Book.


May the evil you wish upon me, the evidence of your calling, be a sweet smelling sacrifice to your God.

Jesus was also gay.

That is why he hangs out with 12 men and ends his prayers with ah-men!

Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by HappyPagan: 12:32pm On Dec 05, 2018
Grupo:


Yes o, Einstein is a very foolish man. Imagine, how could he not believe that snakes were talking in the past, donkeys were speaking, and there was a flood that destroyed the whole world? Coincidentally, all these happened in a small enclave in the middle east. Einstein the foolish man.
Very foolish man.
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by novexme(m): 12:33pm On Dec 05, 2018
call me for your large supply for plastic party spoons purchase. check my signature for my contact.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by henrixx(m): 12:35pm On Dec 05, 2018
kereman1:
Altho I hvnt read d Quran, and I don't know much about d religion. But I feel d Bible is a story book made up by d Roman or whatever nation, for them to blame their inefficient and shortcomings on some1 or something,
Right from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, why did he plant d apple tree in their reach?
Wat is d usefulness of d tree?
Why sud God punish every1 for one person's mistake.
Why do we have more than one religion wit diff God and method of worship.
The Bible is simply filled with stories that never existed,

I also don't believe in diabolical this, harvesting humans part for ritual, charms, all those thgs are bullshiit.
alaye enter one bush for ota or ijebu you go know if rituals is real

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by JomoGbomo1Akpos: 12:38pm On Dec 05, 2018
A fool says in his heart, there is no God.
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Okoroawusa: 12:38pm On Dec 05, 2018
Princeofnigeria:
for this word you just wrote if something bad didn't happen to you before this year ends know I'm not called
Never knew u r the custodian of bad things that happen to ppl.


Tell us exactly the bad thing that will happen to him...that is how pastors keep deceiving u ppl.A pastor will look at thousands of ppl n "prophesy" that,"someone here will buy a car this year!" n all of u will chorus "Amen!"
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by vaxx: 12:45pm On Dec 05, 2018
I notice the op did a lazy job by not including the letter here, therefore creating a false impression Abraham Einesten reject God. Well, he do reject God, the kind of personal God that entire abrahimic theology surround.

This is the full letter , read it yourself and understand his thought.

"" 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""


http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/word-god-is-product-of-human-weakness.html?m=1
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Yankiss(m): 12:46pm On Dec 05, 2018
kereman1:
Altho I hvnt read d Quran, and I don't know much about d religion. But I feel d Bible is a story book made up by d Roman or whatever nation, for them to blame their inefficient and shortcomings on some1 or something,
Right from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, why did he plant d apple tree in their reach?
Wat is d usefulness of d tree?
Why sud God punish every1 for one person's mistake.
Why do we have more than one religion wit diff God and method of worship.
The Bible is simply filled with stories that never existed,

I also don't believe in diabolical this, harvesting humans part for ritual, charms, all those thgs are bullshiit.
I understand that you need a little guidance. Sometimes I think like you do, but honestly there reigns an Almighty God. what we think is immaterial. God exists. How did life come about here on earth? By chance? Look at the sophistication of human beings design - our eyes, ears, brain, etc and the complex functions they perform. Doesn't this show you that a being greater than us was responsible for all that intricacy of design? Was ever a building that was never conceived and built? Have u ever seen a car that no one labored at to bring to being? The bible is factual. Places mentioned in the bible are still here with us - the ruin of Babylon, Jerusalem, Syria, Egypt, Persia ( present day Iran), Mesopotamia, etc. That we do not understand certain things doesn't mean they are irrational or doesn't exist. It only means that our knowledge has limits. Look at the immensity of the universe. The stars, the planets, etc. Human beings are yet to unravel them all. In fact the proportion of the visible universe we have known is only less than one billionth of the universe. Think of all these. That I do not understand Latin or Greek doesn't mean these languages are unintelligible.

Again, a devil exists. It also has powers. But God is far greater. The devil gives you gifts that add sorrows. God gives of His fullness. Thus while you may have to sacrifice and do rituals to propagate demonically, God gives you freely and in all fullness. The choice is yours.

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by olisaEze(m): 12:48pm On Dec 05, 2018
kereman1:
Altho I hvnt read d Quran, and I don't know much about d religion. But I feel d Bible is a story book made up by d Roman or whatever nation, for them to blame their inefficient and shortcomings on some1 or something,
Right from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, why did he plant d apple tree in their reach?
Wat is d usefulness of d tree?
Why sud God punish every1 for one person's mistake.
Why do we have more than one religion wit diff God and method of worship.
The Bible is simply filled with stories that never existed,

I also don't believe in diabolical this, harvesting humans part for ritual, charms, all those thgs are bullshiit.

Ur beliefs are solely based on ur own opinions. Just make sure those opinions are what You’ve searched out for urself and not what you’ve been made to believe by someone else’s opinions, as u may not know how he/she arrived at them. Morning bro
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by GreatrAnalyst: 1:02pm On Dec 05, 2018
openmine:
God does not play dice - Albert Einstein

Thank you.
It is surprising that Einstein wrote something like that. My first time of hearing it.
He as enigma had many quotes attributed to existence of the Divine God...most likely towards the end of his life his hyper intelligence, IQ, got the better of him.
Charles Darwin too started a believer then until something happened in his latter years. Sometimes Too much knowledge and grand personal achievements can be dangerous.

God is R E A L and much more!

Don't quote me if your belief is contrary. Argument, not today
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Damsyjay(m): 1:11pm On Dec 05, 2018
ijaw1stson:
Atheists will gather here now. As for me, I believe that God Almighty exists. Argue with your keyboard
Thank you
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by Thugaa: 1:16pm On Dec 05, 2018
vaxx:
I notice the op did a lazy job by not including the letter here, therefore creating a false impression Abraham Einesten reject God. Well, he do reject God, the kind of personal God that entire abrahimic theology surround.

This is the full letter , read it yourself and understand his thought.

"" 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""


http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/word-god-is-product-of-human-weakness.html?m=1
so did he accept god by this letter? You need to read and read that letter until you understand it. You can not get to the level of Eistein and still believe in fairy tales religious stories and beliefs. But everyone will get to that height of mind energy, we are all growing

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Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by enemyofprogress: 1:22pm On Dec 05, 2018
HappyPagan:

Jesus died young... And he was God's Son... According to that weed he smoked in the wilderness.

Long life is a privilege, death has everyone's address. You should kneel and thank me for wisdom.
to use you do ritual just dey hungry me
Re: Albert Einstein Letter Doubting God Auctioned For $2.89m by uchelouis45(m): 1:23pm On Dec 05, 2018
Valfrankie:
Why didn't the buyer just write another letter upholding his theory?
cheesy cheesy

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