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Old 08-21-2008, 08:16 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Gidget View Post
Half those quotes I wouldn't consider positive, and the other half I believe (as an active Mormon) so I guess I am indifferent to positive atheism (do I capitalize that?) If these quotes/affirmations help you sleep at night, I am happy, I mean that. I just hope you didn't run across this page in a late night web surfing session, and now it has become your "religion."
This was the first time I ever saw the page. I just know that Einstein has said some things that capture eloquently the modern and post-modern perspective shared by most thinking people of our age. There's nothing original or unique here. He wasn't a famous philosopher. I could have given you a bunch of quotes from David Hume, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Spinoza, Darwin or nonsequiter and many others and they'd have had the same message.
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