XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math, alt.atheism   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   In order for one today to continue to be an atheists...one needs to   
   'pretend' that God does not exist. It's the only way one can survive   
   being an atheists.   
      
   Keep on trucking..   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   On Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:47:31 -0800, The Starmaker   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:38:55 -0800, The Starmaker   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:25:14 -0800, The Starmaker   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>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   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>More...I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>"In a sense," he added, "we can hold no one responsible. 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."   
   >>   
   >> "Don’t you believe that man is a free agent, at least in a limited   
   >>sense?"   
   >>   
   >> Einstein smiled ingratiatingly. "I believe with Schopenhauer: *We can   
   >>do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.* 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.   
   >>   
   >> "I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his   
   >>crime; nevertheless, I must protect myself from unpleasant contacts. I   
   >>may consider him guiltless, but I prefer not to take tea with him."   
   >>   
   >> "Do you mean to say that you did not choose your own career, but that   
   >>your actions were predetermined by some power outside yourself?"   
   >>   
   >> **The Danger of Too Much Analysis**   
   >>   
   >> "My own career was undoubtedly determined not by my own will, but by   
   >>various factors over which I have no control—primarily those   
   >>mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life:   
   >>our internal secretions."   
   >>   
   >> "It may interest you," I interjected, "that Henry Ford once told me   
   >>he, too, did not carve out his own life, but that all his actions were   
   >>determined by an inner voice."   
   >>   
   >> "Ford," Einstein replied, "may call it his inner voice. Socrates   
   >>referred to it as his *daimon.* We moderns prefer to speak of our   
   >>glands or internal secretions. Each explains in his own way the   
   >>undeniable fact that the human will is not free."   
   >>   
   >> "Don’t you deliberately ignore all psychic factors in human   
   >>development? What, for instance," I asked, "is your attitude toward   
   >>the subconscious? According to Freud, psychic events registered   
   >>indelibly in our nether mind make and mar our lives."   
   >>   
   >> "Whereas materialistic historians and philosophers neglect psychic   
   >>realities, Freud is inclined to overstress their importance. I am not   
   >>a psychologist, but it seems to me fairly evident that physiological   
   >>factors—especially our endocrines—control our destiny."   
   >>   
   >> "Then you do not believe in psychoanalysis?"   
   >>   
   >> "I am not," Einstein modestly replied, "able to venture a judgment on   
   >>so important a phase of modern thought. However, it seems to me that   
   >>psychoanalysis is not always salutary. It may not always be helpful to   
   >>delve into the subconscious. The machinery of our legs is controlled   
   >>by a hundred different muscles. Do you think it would help us to walk   
   >>if we analyzed our legs and knew exactly which of the little muscles   
   >>must be employed in locomotion and the order in which they work?   
   >>   
   >> "Perhaps," he added with the whimsical smile that sometimes lights up   
   >>the somber pools of his eyes like a will-o’-the-wisp, "you remember   
   >>the story of the toad and the centipede? The centipede was very proud   
   >>of having one hundred legs. His neighbor, the toad, was much depressed   
   >>because he had only four. One day, a diabolic inspiration prompted the   
   >>toad to write a letter to the centipede as follows:   
   >>   
   >> *Honored Sir: Can you tell me which one of your hundred legs you move   
   >>first when you transfer your distinguished body from one place to   
      
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