LOL Yeah I don't recall ever seeing the questionnaire, either. Funny how 
atheists always let you know that they are, too, as if rank ignorance is now a 
badge of pride. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote:
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> > > > 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. 
> >
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