Ever wish you met Einstein?

[3Hotdogs]

What would you say to him? What would you ask of him?

I bring this up because of my neighbor --- been dead now for about 10 years. He lived across the street. He was over our house quite a few times and us over to his. He lived by himself, divorced for the last 25 years of his life.

He worked in AT&T's Bell Labs. I asked him what he did there but his explanation made no sense to me. I had no idea what da fuck he was talking about. He had a Ph.D in astrophysics. So I never again brought up his work.

He was disabled so he didn't get out much or go anywhere except to work. It was around 1975 that our families went on vacation together. His wife packed the back of their car with all kinds of computer shit --- took up about 1/3 of the back of the hatchback. Computers were BIG, then. It made sense for him to take all that stuff on vacation... the computer stuff was his fun and he wasn't going to leave the cabin during the week anyway, so what the hell. It would give him something to do while the rest of us were swimming or sightseeing.

Three weeks ago, I came across some of his papers from a "New Age" organization he belonged to. Rather than just shit-can the stuff, I figured he would want the organization to have it. To entice them into accepting the stuff, I figured I would research his work and tell the organization about who he was.

Wikipedia described him as being one of the first developers of the theory of artificial intelligence.. William Gale.

[True Dough]

1. Wanna do my taxes,

Einstein?

[Skittles]

2. I wouldn't ask him a question

I would just tell him......he was right

*my interpretation of "generation" here is.......republicans

[Karadeniz]

3. I was fascinated by the recent post about the correspondence between Einstein and Freud.

Between the two of them, they were arriving at the knowledge I've been preaching lo these several years. They wanted to understand man's split personality, good and bad, creative and destructive, loving and hateful, peaceful and bellicose. Freud called the positive side Eros, didn't name the negative side, but why not Ares? Freud determined that Ares would always be present, making trouble.

I'd talk to Einstein about my own experience, seeing soul and witnessing Mind, about Mind not needing our physical senses to perceive the physical (out of body, near death accounts), about Mind and soul existing without the body, about Mind responding to both the brain, which is responsible for the Ares urges, and the soul, producing what Freud called Eros.

Jesus recognized this same split personality. His teachings promote the development of the soul so we can counter the influence of the brain (greed, lust, materialism, racism, hate, etc.). Jesus often used financial terms... pay, interest, debt...to describe soul status in the parables. When he said that the poor would always be with us, he wasn't really talking economic status. He was talking tiny soul status. In Freud's letters, he concluded the same thing.

I'd love to talk to Einstein!!!

[3Hotdogs]

4. --- mind without the body.

Bill was interested in interstellar exploration, using just the mind/intelligence or however he envisioned it, to explore and/or settle the universe. Voyager excited him as a possible first stage of his vision. As far as I could understand, he wanted intelligence to be encapsulated and then set off to explore and colonize. He worried that intelligence would be lost when our planet was no longer inhabitable.