[xrotaryguy]

I just thought it might be interesting to perhaps have a little enlightened conversation about ideas from the mind of the father of modern (or at least nuclear) physics.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Einstein', 'N')othing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

[Narz]

It's not for everyone but it would certainly reduce the amount of land usage we needed for food.

Not saying that all the grain we grow is at all sustainable or ecologically healthy though. Of course, much of that grain (and soybeans) goes to feed food animals anyway, so with more vegetarians we'd ironically need less.

Certain types of fruit & nut trees provide more calories per acre than grains and most are far easier to maintain (an avocado tree will produce year after year with little maintainance, unlike a field of wheat).

On a personal level, it's best to get as much of your own food as possible. Me personally I'd rather milk a goat & take eggs from a chicken than have to slaughter either of them (though I would if I had to). I'm lazy so I prefer to get my calories from plants and animals that give freely (fruit & nut trees, chickens - eggs, milkable creatures). The meat & grain (and industrial dairy) industries are by far the worst for the planet, IMO.

[jasonraymondson]

As smart as ole einstein was... I don't exactly remember hearing about him being an expert on nutrition

[Geko45]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')nce you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein

[xrotaryguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('einstein', 'O')n quantum theory I use up more brain grease than on relativity.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'A')s smart as ole einstein was... I don't exactly remember hearing about him being an expert on nutrition

[jboogy]

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings which increase with the years. One becomes sharply aware, but without regret, of the limits of mutual understanding and consonance with other people. No doubt, such a person loses some of his innocence and unconcern; on the other hand, he is largely independent of the opinions, habits, and judgments of his fellows and avoids the temptation to build his inner equilibrium upon such insecure foundations. (Albert Einstein - Ideas and Opinions, 1954)
I be diggin' this quote big-time . You guys at PO have filled all my needs for socialization , imagine how hard it would be to find people that resonate in your immediate community. I don't think there's anyone within' 50 miles of here that could understand the way I think, I left all my lifelong friends in PA and I'm not big on telephone conversations. If it weren't for the internet I'd have probably lost my sense of who I am by know , at least to some degree. I love you man ! now gimme' your fuckin' beer!

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')e who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')ne had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

[Offshore]

I don't know how you vegetarians can live with yourselves eating up innocent plants and recklessly consuming the environment like that. Plants have feelings too.

[xrotaryguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Einstein', 'a')nd have never belonged to my immediate family

[xrotaryguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Einstein', 'I') could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt. (Comment after the bombing of Hiroshima, regarding his letter to Roosevelt warning of the possibility of the development of a nuclear weapon.)

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('xrotaryguy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Einstein', 'I') could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt. (Comment after the bombing of Hiroshima, regarding his letter to Roosevelt warning of the possibility of the development of a nuclear weapon.)

[NEOPO]

"Imagination is more important then knowledge"

and if I was a real blue meany I would point out the thread where Zardoz scoffed at this quote and the utilization of my own imagination yet I am not really like that, am I ?
Ok I am yet my buddy Jim Beam says it is late and Z simply aint worth the Mother FN effort


Wow, imagine, an "anti semite" quoting Einstein

And oh btw ole albert left a few notes of regret for enlightening the americans. Perhaps true brilliance is knowing when to shut up yet true faith has alot to do with letting the reins go to the unfolding thus if he had faith in mankind then he understood that this new power is just one of many that will either be our downfall or our overcoming...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hile watching a German military parade in the 1880s with his parents, young Albert became terrified by the almost mechanical movements of the soldiers who seemed to have no minds of their own. His parents had to promise their frightened son he would never have to become a soldier. Einstein despised militarism and the use of force his entire life—although he later recognized that in some situations, there is no alternative but to "fight for peace."

Einstein denounced World War I and after the war became an outspoken pacifist. But the rise of Nazism and the horrifying events of World War II forced him to reconsider his anti-war position. Concerned the Nazis were building an atomic bomb, he urged the United States to build one first. Six years later, when the bomb was dropped on civilians, Einstein openly regretted his action and became a champion of nuclear disarmament for the rest of his life.

[xrotaryguy]

I don't doubt that.

Here's another.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Einstein', 'I') don't pretend to understand the universe - it's much bigger than I am.

[NEOPO]

Are you the keymaster?

[greenworm]

I feel shame for I don't have a quote.

But I do have an interesting fact 33.3 repeating.

He was reading worlds in collision by Immanuel Velikovsky on his death bed.

[SinisterBlueCat]

'All your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options, combine and coalesce into one noise including laugh and whimper, scream and sigh, forever and forever repeating, in any tongue we care to choose, whatever lessened, separated message we want to hear. The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am'

ian banks

[NEOPO]

And yet what is our purpose in this grand scheme?

More specifically what is my purpose and where is that fucking key master!!!

Maybe you are the keymaster only thinking that you are something else and I am god only pretending that I am neo, doh!

Numerology

Comparative Numerology: The Numbers One to Ten: Fundamental Powers

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')The only real valuable thing is intuition." Funny looking jewish guy

[greenworm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd yet what is our purpose in this grand scheme?