--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > Doc, > > What a nice [first person] account. It's quite charitable > > and also reads like an invitation. Thanks Doc, this should > > be dragged over to the current parallel FFL atheist thread > > too where the atheistic sophists are splitting epistemological > > hairs again. Last weekend I was over in Chicago and got a > > tour of the FermiLab where incredibly high-minded research > > continues to split particles down and down. A kind of a very > > Large game in materialism. It is an amazing place and a temple > > in its own atheistic right but for an evident general lack of > > experience in what they are after. > > > > A brochure handed out at FermiLab has an explanation where the > > first director of Fermi Lab was asked how the laboratory would > > help defend the United States? Ans: "It has nothing to do > > directly with defending our country except to make it worth > > defending." > > http://www.fnal.gov/ > > > > Thoreau, 'A life worth living'. 'Fairfield', is like the > > ongoing basic research in spiritual practice even for the > > enlightened in life. > > You may know that Enrico Fermi was an atheist, but did > you know that Henry David Thoreau was, too? Here are a > few more atheists you may have heard of: > > Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Dave Barry, > Ingmar Bergman, Niels Bohr, Richard Branson, James > Cameron, George Carlin, John Carpenter, Asia Carrera, > Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Francis > Crick, David Cronenberg, David Cross, Alan Cumming, > Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Dawkins, Ani DiFranco, > Albert Einstein, Harlan Ellison, Richard Feynman, > Harvey Fierstein, Jodie Foster, Janeane Garofalo, Bill > Gates, Bob Geldof, Ricky Gervais, Ira Glass, Robert > Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Hepburn, > Christopher Hitchens, Eddie Izzard, Penn Jillette, > Billy Joel, Diane Keaton, Keira Knightley, John Landis, > Hugh Laurie, Richard Leakey, Bruce Lee, Tom Lehrer, > John Lennon, James Lipton, H.P. Lovecraft, Ernst Mach, > Seth MacFarlane, Bill Maher, John Malkovich, Barry > Manilow, Todd McFarlane, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur > Miller, Claude Monet, Julianne Moore, Rafael Nadal, > Randy Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Gary Numan, > Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Camille Paglia, Trey Parker, > Paula Poundstone, Terry Pratchett, Robin Quivers, James > Randi, Ron Reagan Jr., Rob Reiner, Keanu Reeves, Gene > Roddenberry, Henry Rollins, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, > Adam Savage, Brian Sapient, Erwin Schrödinger, Bob Simon, > Steven Soderbergh, Annika Sorenstam, George Soros, > Howard Stern, Matt Stone, Julia Sweeney, Studs Terkel, > Pat Tillman, Alan Turing, Eddie Vedder, Gore Vidal, > Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Steven Weinberg, > Joss Whedon, Ted Williams, and Steve Wozniak. > > Maybe their names are recognizable because they actually > DID things rather than sitting around believing in or > praying to guys who don't exist. :-) > A list can always be made, of those with some oddity to them. It is like making a list of all past members of Congress with wooden legs. Big deal.
These names appear significant on this list, because there are so *few* of them. You are dealing with a severe minority here. I am not sure how pointing that out helps your case. PS My guess is that you suck at chess, too.
