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: > > > > --- 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. > > >
