I forgot to mention this from last night's dinner conversation. Don told a joke, actually an old Jewish proverb, that is absolutely hilarious. Here it is:
4 Rabbis are out golfing and as they play, they're arguing about some fine point of interpretation about a Hebrew scripture. After a while it becomes clear that 3 of the Rabbis are on one side and the 4th is on the other side and he cannot convince them that he's right. So finally he stops and lifts his hands to the sky and says, "God, please tell these men that I am right in my interpretation. Give us a sign." The sky opens up and a bolt of lightning flashes across the sky, out of nowhere.
He says, "See? A sign from God that I am right." One of the other rabbis says, "Oh nonsense, that doesn't mean anything." The first rabbi says, "Okay God, we need a more explicit sign, something that can't be mistaken for a natural occurence." The sky opens up and four bolts of lightning shoot out, setting four trees ablaze near the 4 rabbis. The rabbi says, "There you go. Proof that I am right." The three rabbis say, "That doesn't convince us at all."
Finally the rabbi yells, "Lord, please just tell them I'm right." A loud voice booms from the sky, "He's right. Listen to him", it says. The rabbi says, "There, what do you have to say about that?". One of the other rabbis says, "Okay, so it's 3 to 2 now."
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hehehe....good one. :)
Moses, Jesus and an older gentleman were playing golf one day when all three shanked a ball off the tee into a pond. Jesus walks across the water, swings his club and lofts the ball onto the green, inches from the hole. Moses stands at the shore and with a flamboyant gesture, parts the water and procedes to chip onto the green as well, coming to within a hair of the hole.
Finally it's the the older gent's turn, and he does nothing. Just then a hawk swoops down and grabs a fish from the water. While flying over the green, the hawk squeezes the fish and the ball pops out of it, bouncing right down into the cup.
Moses turns to Jesus and says, "You know, I hate playing with your dad."
I have heard this joke before, several times -- only instead of rabbis, they were physicists. Usually Einstein is the man in the minority. I guess it's supposed to be a tweak at the presumed single-minded arrogance of those atheist materialist reductionist physicists. You know.
Sastra:
Except that Einstein was himself an atheist or agnostic--he referred to his views using both terms in correspondence with Guy H. Raner:
Raner, G.H. and Lerner, L.S., "Einstein's Beliefs," _Nature_ 358:102.
The full text of the letters from Einstein summarized in the above may be found in
Michael R. Gilmore, "Einstein's God," _Skeptic_ vol. 5, no. 2, 1997, pp. 62-64.