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TOLERANCE
Be nice to that weird kid in school. One day he might become famous and have unlimited access to high explosives, radioactive materials, and a security clearance second only to God.
(Albert Einstein)
Tolerance is big with people tight with God.
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Security clearance? He was German and an outspoken socialist during WWII. His FBI/CIA file probably took up an entire wall.
I like him better already!
Why does this seem to imply that one of the greatest minds of all time was a dangerous psychopath? Pretty sure Einstein was awesome.
I wrote a paper on Einstein last year. He wanted nothing to do with the atomic bomb, he refused a seat on the committee working on it, and was incensed that his research was being used for such purposes.
Name creativity fail there, bud.
Funny how a name can cause such controversy and discussion, and how it automatically discredits my view. I was looking for a name, and something in the Tag Cloud jumped out.
I’m not old and white, although I’m in Texas.
thats controversy and a deep discussion? rando saying name fail? thats deep? didnt discredit anything you said at all, just seems lazy, like VNV putting “super ultra mega liberal” as his name, or bitter troll useing a name like bitter troll
It’s the longest nesting I’ve ever seen on Pundit Kitchen.
You should be shot for that link.
I’m not clicking it then. What is it?
einstein was ‘a rock’.
Then you must be new here.
Best link ever.
Republican, you are seriously, seriously a douchebag for attaching that link. Not that it comes as any surprise (unlike that stupid, stupid link). Gah! Un-fecking-believable.
He was a German that came to the U.S. because he was afraid Hitler would kill him for being a Jew.
Yeah, basically. After the war ended he went back to teach in Switzerland for a while, then he came back to the US when he got bored with that. It’s to bad he went crazy eddie about 2/3 of the way through his career, though. If he had spent all the time and effort he did looking for a nonexistent factor that would remove the factor of randomness in physics doing research on something real, he would have undoubtedly made more scientific breakthroughs.
Or maybe he found it and the government has yet to tell us… hehehe…
Wow, n1am, you can be terribly hard to please …
Yeah, seriously, if Einstein isn’t good enough for you, then wow.
I’m just saying that if he had decided to accept the reality that sometimes things are random he could have done a lot more than he had already done. Instead he selfishly looked for a way to disprove reality. He had a habit of doing this, like the “universal constant” in his original theory of relativity. He had trouble coming to terms with the ugly truth.
Dude, we’re playing. Chill. LOL
SARCASM NO WORK THROUGH INTERWEBS!
just goes to show that if one of the smartest men on the planet thought socialism was a good idea, there might be weight to it.
i’d say think about what you say before you say it, but then i saw your name, so nevermind.
A counterargument in two words: Noam Chomsky.
That was just pissy. For no honest reason.
dhoti – never heard of him, but i did look him up and yeah.. and yeah some of his concepts were a bit extreme. didn’t get very far but it sounds like he did some interesting work in pychology and behavioral studies but this whole mess of libertarian socialism sounds a bit over the top.
Nesting fail?
it would appear that is the case
You were still pissy for the name calling.
Can’t we all just agree that socialism exists and get over it? Socialism isn’t pure evil, nothing is, and if it’s implemented properly it has been shown to be quite beneficial in moderate doses. So stop complaining about it, the cold war ended 18 years ago.
I can prove pure evil does exist. Ever read LOLcatspeak?
Heh, I guess you’ve got a point.
Don’t you hate it when jac makes you giggle just when you’re about to throw in the towel all together?
Yep. I was going to head for bed 20 minutes ago! Darn it!
See, I plan it that way.
I can has soshulizm?
No, you may not. It is strictly against the Constitution of the United States of America. In the great words of Benjamin Franklin, “A Government big enough to give you everything you want, is a Government big enough to take it away.”
Actually Socialism would work just fine if human nature wasn’t a factor. Human’s are by and large greedy and grasping, they will always be wanting more. (That’s the caveman coming out folks!) You cannot have a political system that states that everyone is equal, when the leaders live in near luxury. If everyone is equal, everyone should be seen to be equal. That’s why Communism didn’t work. There were too many greedy people in charge. (And besides which you had a two or three tier system – The High up Party Members, and the ordinary party members, and on the outside the Tourists. The High up Party members and Tourists in Russia had access to all the best stuff, and even had their own private Shops – the Russian Store Gum comes to mind. For those wondering about the system read 1984, that gives you a pretty good idea of what the system was like in Russia. (Kruschev (sp?) was in the midst of planning major changes, but he was discredited and was retired from his position.
Socialism is just the Caste system with a different name. They have it in India, and there are castes that it is illegal to educate. Sad. People who have actually experienced socialism would not think it great.
He didn’t like quantum physics, so I guess we throw that away, huh?
There are a lot of people that are amazingly smart at one thing, but clueless at others. I work in a place with some brilliant scientists and technical people but, seriously, there’s a mere handful I’d trust to watch after my pet for a weekend.
Yeah, he went a little wacko near the end. He just couldn’t stand the idea that sometimes events are just up to chance. It’s kinda sad.
He had an intuition. Since we still don’t have anything like acomplete ‘quantum’ theory after 100 years I think the jury is still out.
There’s no agreed interpretation for quantum theories still.
And you can’t just ‘go with the math’ and forget about it, since the math has never worked. We still use peturbative ‘approximations’ (they aren’t really approximations in any rigorous sense) and so-called ‘renormalizations’ to get anyting useful out of QCD.
He didn’t like it, but he understood it well enough to really put it through its proverbial paces. Einstein’s objections were a large chunk of the reason that QM was pushed as hard and shaken down as well as it was.
As far as not liking a theory, that’s his prerogative. It’s every scientist’s prerogative, in fact. Bucking the conventional wisdom is how science advances. (And in the end, Albert might be right after all: QM probably isn’t the *best* model for the universe, either. Every theory in science today is probably wrong, at least in the sense of being incomplete.)
Will you be my BFF for that comment?
There you go. Science is good stuff, but there was a time when people thought the sun revolved around the earth and THAT was scientific fact.
god ‘not playing dice’ is hard to reconcile with goedel’s second i think.
playing violin brought peace to the troubled mind that tried.
if there is no chance then there should be rules right?
‘the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine’ iirc
Would you prefer it if he were a fascist during WWII (which is unlikely, considering he was a Jew)? At least the socialists were fighting against Hitler.
Shhh. Don’t spoil his world view. He may think socialist = fascist.
The do have one thing in common.
Actually why don’t you talk to Germans who lived through the end of the Second World War. They’ll tell you that you average Socialist (i.e. Russian) soldier were just as bad as the Germans were, raping and pillaging innocent German civillians.
What does that have to do with political ideologies? Nothing. It has everything to do with human nature, as horrible as it is.
Nifty uniforms?
If you had a micro brain there might be a nice metaphor for thinking Einstein’s physics was partly right, and so were his politics (the anti-fascist part). But it was also wrong (like socialism!).
But since libertarianism and austrian economics are supposed to be correct a-priori (not exactly a scientific attitude) that doesn’t really work.
Well, many (zionist) jews had no problem with fascism which they equated with nationalism. They even considered coordinating action with Nazi Germany against the British over Palestine.
Some of thes people went on to be significant figures in Israeli politics post WW2.
Einstein was an anti-zionist, though.
Wellll… Nice joke, but was considered too much of a security risk to work on the bomb he recommended we work on. Something about him being a pacifist that the gubmint didn’t like…
Wrong, he never approved of the Manhattan Project. He simply co-signed a letter his friend, who came up with the idea of the atomic bomb, that was sent to the president. He was never directly involved in the project, and he later regretted that his research was ever used to create such a device. Still, you’re right, he didn’t have any government security clearance.
If he had no security clearance, how the heck was the Naval Bureau of Ordinance consulting with him regarding new weapons? No, he wasn’t on the Manhattan Project, but that also wasn’t his area. Still, he was a former patent clerk with a very good head for physics and who was willing to put his pacifism aside for an extreme case. And he almost certainly had a decent clearance to be seeing weapon plans.
Really? I never heard about that. I did a biographical report on him once for high school, but it’s been a while. I guess I’m a little rusty on that topic. Time for Wikipedia!
Before we get rolling here, I’d just like to point out that, unlike Darth Vader, Einstein was German, not Belgian. Also, his head was filled with theoretical physics, rather than hot air.
You sure you checked the colors of that tie? It may look striped to you, but to others, it could sum up an entire nationality!
I’m fairly positive he’s from Montana.
Yes, just to raise him up a crop of dental floss.
Raisin’ it up…..
Actually, by the time Manhattan started, Einstein was an American. Immediately before that, his only citizenship was Swiss. He had renounced his German citizenship in ‘33 when Hitler came to power.
Bubba Fett! LOL, I am picturing that armor with a beer gut hanging out….
sitting in his flying pick up truck the slave-1 talking bout how evolution is a lie and a big gun rack behind him with blasters
Hey dere, Vader. Ya got mah Han Solo? Frozen in carbonite huh? Okay, just throw him in that thar beer cooler next to the PBR and I’ll be on my way. I gotta hurry up and get home in time to watch Sebulba Earhardt Jr. on NASCAR Podracing.
And it certainly explains the kissing between siblings and the possibility of Darth Vader being your uncle daddy.
*shifty eyes*
I’m suddenly much more wary of this “Force” the keep telling me to let flow through me….
Okay, now Luke, try to pick up the cinder blocks using only your mind!
smart man with funny gay hair has great securtiy clearance with COBRA
The caption sucks. Einstein was never picked on as a child, the only thing different about him was that he viewed all subjects not related to math or science as a waste of his time. Do your research.
Huh. This is the first time I’ve seen someone’s name fit them so completely. Interesting.
history is not important, because lets be doomed to repeat stuff!
Actually, he had problems with his speech growing up. When I was in elementary a speech problem was the best way to get made fun of.
I am pretty sure that you didn’t go everywhere with Einstein while he was growing up. To say he “was never picked on as a child” is a really big stretch. I’m just saying you might want to check your “facts” before you slam someone else for not checking theirs.
There’s also a theory, with some fairly strong evidence, that he had Aspergers as well. And this was before the internet, so it lends a bit more credibility to the claim.
I’ve heard that as well, and as someone who has Asperger’s, that’s pretty damn good company.
Actually, Einstein’s contribution to the Manhattan project was limited to sending a letter to president Roosevelt encouraging him to Support research into the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction. He never held a security clearance and was not allowed anywhere near the project because he was both a socialist and a Jew.
he dropped out of high school. and he worked in a patent office. i doubt he was that weird nerd guy. even that guy wouldn’t drop out.
yeah, plus he never found out he liked physics until much later.
Fail #1: Tolerate people because you should fear them.
Fail #2: Einstein was a misogynist a-hole who married his cousin. Hardly the poster-boy of tolerance, unless you’re tolerating incest.
…Get a life…
A well turned parlance good sir!
Well, don’t you have anything better to do than badmouth dead people?
Don’t care for facts much?
He was an asshole in his private life, a womanizer and an appalling parent.
I’m not sure I would describe him as a misogynist though, those other (equally damning) words are more appropriate.
Someone can be a misogynist/racist/etc and be a pleasant person as long as people are conforming to your expectations. Einstein was not pleasant.
I concede your point.
“If I am proved correct, the Germans will call me a German , the Swiss will call me a Swiss citizen, and the French will call me a great scientist.
If relativity is proved wrong, the French will call me a Swiss, the Swiss will call me a German, and the Germans will call me a Jew.”
–Einstein
So you should all start bowing down to me…. right about now.
We bowed to you just last week.
No, that was more of a curtsy than a bow…
So why don’t you all just bow down… NOW!
I like Medarus. *hugs* You keep my favor when I’m fearfully remembering high school 10 years from now, and I’m the most powerful girl in the world.
Rando…. I hate curtsies. Mostly because I can’t do one. XD
Incest is the best!
just like grampa use to make….
I’m incensed at your insidious incidentals.
Now yew cut that out, Aunt Granma.
He was a socialist, but not a Marxist let alone a Leninist. He concluded his argument for economic planning in “Why Socialism?” with the condition that we must first find a way to do it that doesn’t suck.
-(note: individuals ranging from Stalin and Hitler to Peter Kropotkin and Benjamin Tucker and today from Chavez to the Zapatistas have identified themselves with the word socialism, without some modifying term the word means absolutely nothing, so everyone just chill out about socialism, you probably don’t really know what you are talking about anyway, especially if you are American.)
He spoke out publicly against McCarthy and the HUAC and had a 2000 page FBI file.
He wanted the U.S. to have the bomb before Hitler because he believed the U.S. would never use it, lamenting afterward that he should have burned his fingers off rather then write his letter to Roosevelt.
Be nice to that weird kid in school.
He might invent the weapon that will be responsible for obliterating you, your loved ones, and your entire neighborhood without a trace.
As has been stated, many times, Einstein only signed his name on a letter to Roosevelt written by Leo Szilard advocating the development of the bomb.
He had no hand in its designing or construction.
Just me, or do Albert’s lips move when *you* read the caption, too?
If Einstien was never made fun of I doubt he would’ve devoted his life to being the greatest mind and showing everyone who made fun of him that he can be partially responsible for the absolute distruction of two cities.