Albert Einstein. Sobre la existencia de Dios y sobre la creencia en Dios. / GUARIDA DE LOS POETAS: William Burroughs, One God Universe.

Sobre la existencia de Dios y sobre la creencia en Dios

"...Tu pregunta es la más difícil del mundo. No es algo que pueda responder con un simple sí o no. No soy ateo. No sé si pueda definirme como un panteísta. El problema en cuestión es demasiado vasto para nuestras mentes limitadas. ¿Puedo contestar con una parábola? La mente humana, no importa que tan entrenada esté, no puede abarcar el universo. Estamos en la posición del niño pequeño que entra a una inmensa biblioteca con cientos de libros de diferentes lenguas. El niño sabe que alguien debe de haber escrito esos libros. No sabe cómo o quién. No entiende los idiomas en los que esos libros fueron escritos. El niño percibe un plan definido en el arreglo de los libros, un orden misterioso, el cual no comprende, sólo sospecha. Esa, me parece, es la actitud de la mente humana, incluso la más grande y culta, en torno a Dios. Vemos un universo maravillosamente arreglado, que obedece ciertas leyes, pero apenas entendemos esas leyes. Nuestras mentes limitadas no pueden aprehender la fuerza misteriosa que mueve a las constelaciones. Me fascina el panteísmo de Spinoza, porque él es el primer filósofo que trata al alma y al cuerpo como si fueran uno mismo, no dos cosas separadas..."

Albert Einstein

Entrevista, 1930, fuente: Glimpses of the Great de G. S. Viereck

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My comprehension of God comes from the deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world. In common terms, one can describe it as “pantheistic” (Spinoza).

In answer to the question, What is your understanding of God?

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I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

In answer to Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein’s telegram, published in the New York Times, April 25, 1929. (Spinoza reasoned that God and the material world are indistinguishable; the better one understands how the universe works, the closer one comes to God.) Goldstein felt this answer was evidence that Einstein was not an atheist. See Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics, 17. Einstein Archives 33-272

GUARIDA DE LOS POETAS

A One God Universe

Consider the impasse of a one God universe.
He is all-knowing and all-powerful.
He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.
He can't do anything since the act of doing presupposes opposition.
His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death,
To keep his dying show on the road.
Sooner or later, "Look boss we don't have enough energy left to fry an elderly woman in a flea bag hotel bar."

"Well, we'll have to start faking it."

Joe looks after him sourly and mixes a bicarbonated soda. "Sure, start faking it. Sure, and leave the details to Joe."

Now look, from a real disaster you get a pig of energy: Sacrifice, Heroism, Grief, Separation, Fear and Violent Death, and remember one violent death yields more energy than a cancer ward.
So, from a energy surplus you can underwrite the next one.
So, from a energy surplus you can underwrite the next one.
But the first one's a fake, you can't underwrite a s***house!
Trying to explain to God Almighty where His one God universe is going.
The a****** doesn't know what b***ons to push or what happens when you push them! Abandon ship, god d*** it every man for himself!

Recollect Pope John XXIII saying, "Like a little soldier, I stand at attention in the presence of my captains." The old army game from here to eternity: Get there firstest with the brownest nose.