XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, sci.math   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:44:12 -0800, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >Einstein's God (a cosmic religion) is called Spinoza's God , the God   
   >Einstein believes in.   
   >No Free Will   , human free will is an illusion; our choices are   
   >determined by natural causes.   
   >   
      
   Here are some quotes by Albert Einstein  that appear to me was   
   influenced by  Spinoza's God:   
      
   If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the   
   earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly   
   convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the   
   strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being,   
   endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching   
   man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting   
   according to his own free will.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
   I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what   
   he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all   
   situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of   
   others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the   
   lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too   
   seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my   
   temper.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
   Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free   
   agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
   So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect   
   intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion   
   that he was acting according to his own free will.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
      
   I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are   
   concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an   
   unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he   
   does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
   I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free   
   will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom   
   of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I   
   must act as if man is a responsible being.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
      
   I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews   
   believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I   
   reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.   
   Albert Einstein   
      
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