--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > --- 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.
I wonder when they handed out the questionnaire asking the world if they were atheists or not and then who bothered to publish this list and then who cared enough to read it. >
