sparrowhawk9 64M
184 posts
7/7/2019 4:47 pm
Einstein quote


Once Einstein wondered aloud to his assistant Ernst Strauss,

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World".

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Lily20145 60F
887 posts
7/8/2019 11:46 am

interesting .....sometimes even we have choices in life that we may still pick the wrong one. Therefore, it's not down to the choices I guess.

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sparrowhawk9 64M

7/8/2019 5:34 pm

Einstein approach to discovery was intuitive and creative, thinking he would follow "the beauty of the truth". Assume that God created nature and its inherent Truth and Beauty, it is a divine reflection. I think Einstein thought himself fortunate to be first one to glimpse nature's inherent sacred sanctity and he developed a reverence for The Laws following non-euclidian math-developed by Riemann decades earlier---for the internal beauty of the mathematical forms.

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sparrowhawk9 64M

7/8/2019 9:15 pm

And about choices, are there really any choices? We do the best we can with what we know at the time, either rationally or emotionally. I trust cold rationality is just as bad a choice as hot emotional choice. Smile, it works out because the path taken can never be reworked---it is like in the Matrix film with the choice of the red or blue pill...if you choose you may actually never remember that you ever had a choice. so, in a circular reasoning way---once the choice is made you cannot take it back, and do overs are not allowed---forgiveness is though. Time is really not reversible and the road not taken I can assure you from personal experience, is not available as you remember it-because it too changed...the road it going forward only..smile!

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Lily20145 60F
887 posts
7/8/2019 11:46 pm

Perhaps, it's down to the timing ? Have you watched the 90s movie "Sliding doors" starring Gwyneth Paltrow. How 10 minutes difference can change how we walk our living path.

I have no regret in life even though I may not chose the right decision from the past. But I trust any challenges throwing to me are only do me good.

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sparrowhawk9 replies on 7/9/2019 4:14 am:
Chaos Theory---Butterfly Effect, or sensitivity to initial conditions, The reason we cannot predict very far into the future the weather (Lorentz Effect).

Living a good life is challenging enough...I try to deal with it and enjoy it as it is presented.

Lily20145 60F
887 posts
7/9/2019 11:54 pm

Confucius : "At 15 I set my heart on learning, at 30 I know where I stood, at 40 I have no more doubts, at 50 I knew the will of Heaven (life’s purpose), at 60 my ears were attuned (i.e. my moral sense was developed), and at 70 I followed my heart’s desire without crossing the line.”

Now, good life for me is good health and yes it's time to enjoy every moment in life.

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