Guest guest Report post Posted August 26, 2004 “If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgement on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to him?” -Albert Einstein Out of My Later Years More in http://www.americanatheist.org/supplement/freewill.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted August 27, 2004 Of course there is fate and no free will.If there is no fate,then god can't be all knowing,right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dravidian 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2004 I agree and believe that what we call free will is merely the reactions of prakriti. The actions of this world are manifested/manifesting reverbirations from something deeper. A deeper vibration causes all that occurs here. we are the result of what has already occurred. Free will is a way to look at things in a temporary and limited paradigm. But ultimately in the grand scheme of things fee will is an illusion. But many of us are not able to comprehend this deep precept given to us from ages past. And so we were also given a way to understand ourselves within a "free will" paradigm. Hence we have rules of conduct and moral practice to prevent "chaos" and "evil". But eventually one will find that all that happens is necessary and the universe tends to unfold as it should. We are to observe and understand ourselves. Understand that all that happens is meant to and that the only Will is that of the One Almighty. Punishment and reward are simply consequences, the reactions of prakriti, karma. It is said that we must eventually become indifferent to these and move beyond worry of consequences through detachment of ego or identity from the confines of prakriti. All is God. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted August 27, 2004 Einstein was atheist or agnostic, and DOES believe in free will. Which is what I believe he was. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted August 28, 2004 verify the weblink given in the link.He advocated no freewill.He spoke against it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dravidian 0 Report post Posted August 28, 2004 Einstein was not athiest or agnostic. He did believe in God. You obviously haven't read much on Einstein as a person. Plus his theory of relativity and modern phsyics resonate with vedic philosophy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Einsten wasn't atheist, he did believe in God, though not as a personal god but as an impersonal ultimate reality (like the Brahman of Hinduism). His thoughts on God and the universe were in line with Vedantic teachings. He spoke about the Bhagavad Gita :- "When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." He also said "We owe a lot to Indians who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites