"... On Aug 26, 8:10 am, Pat <[email protected]>
wrote: ..."
> Yet, you also expressed what I could know. And I doubt that you have
> access to that outside of my telling you. That is, at least, as
> arrogant.
I think not. It is relatively easy to know what one does not know,
and it is as easy to know what other do not know. But as I said, it
takes humility rather than arrogance and I've not seem much of that
lately.
We think we know so much because we think we have huge vocabularies
and virtually all the knowledge in the world but the reality is that
our window on the universe is relatively very small and we actually
know very little. In fact our greatest knowledge is of how little we
really know.
> There's no "based on..." in the quote "God does not play
> dice with the universe." Of course, Albert firmly believed what he
> discovered to be true and we have found no evidence against it.
> Rather, we've proven him right, time and time again. It's a belief
> that I would (and may be forced to {if I piss off enough people with
> it}) die for, so I state it emphatically.
Many a man and woman have died for their beliefs. But that is all they
have died for. They did not die because they were right or wrong.
They died because they didn't know but rather believed they did.
> Another Einstein quote: "In human freedom in the philosophical sense I
> am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external
> compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's
> saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has
> been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual
> consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the
> hardships of life, my own and others'. This feeling mercifully
> mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes
> paralysing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people
> too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humour, above
> all, has its due place."
My statement about belief above stands in response to this as well.
Of course you have the freedom to believe what you will but you do not
have the freedom to enforce that belief on others as a truth unless it
be taken by fools.
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