This seems like a place for me. I'm a 40-something guy from Scandinavia, who loves science and philosophy, and I see myself as a hardcore atheist. Growing up, I had an encounter with evangelism, and that has actually helped me debunk religion, because I know it a lot better than most atheists.
I like to let the evidence take me where ever it leads. Even if I don't like what it suggests. For me evidence and logic is alpha and omega, no matter what they say.
Looking forward to meet you guys, and have interesting discussions
Welcome, if your username were abbreviated to QT (mine is usually abbreviated to KIR etc) it would sound like a term for those who are romantically appealing....you'd have a lot of work to earn that title methinks, new as you are, so I'll plump for QuT methinks...or QuantumT. Is your username a synonym for a minuscule evening meal, or perhaps denoting the difficulty one sometimes has deciding what to actually have for dinner...the uncertainty principle?
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! - Chicken Little
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that - Oscar Wilde
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
...but if I could formulate how fast I'm going, I wouldn't know where I am.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Perhaps you can help me with a question QuantumT - I once saw a documentary about legendary Copenhagen era quantum physicists, but can't remember the name of it. It featured one man who was very paranoid of being poisoned, and his wife tasted his food for him before he would consume it when out and about. There was another chap, or perhaps the same one, who suffered an existential psychological breakdown of sorts, said he "couldn't take it ANY MORE," converted to Christianity, gave away all his money and opened up his house to vagrants, who were not good to him, and lived out his few remaining years in utter penury. Might you know the fellow's name, by any chance?
[quote="Keep It Real";p="2708302"]Perhaps you can help me with a question QuantumT - I once saw a documentary about legendary Copenhagen era quantum physicists, but can't remember the name of it. It featured one man who was very paranoid of being poisoned, and his wife tasted his food for him before he would consume it when out and about. There was another chap, or perhaps the same one, who suffered an existential psychological breakdown of sorts, said he "couldn't take it ANY MORE," converted to Christianity, gave away all his money and opened up his house to vagrants, who were not good to him, and lived out his few remaining years in utter penury. Might you know the fellow's name, by any chance?[/quote]
^ Kurt Gödel, is yer man who was paranoid about food, KIR. Not familiar with the other tale, sry.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
... His problems seem to have started with hypochondria: he was obsessive about his diet and bowel habits and kept a daily record for two decades or more of his body temperature and milk of magnesia consumption. He had a fear of accidental and, in later years, deliberate poisoning. This phobia led him to avoid eating food, so that he became malnourished. At the same time, though, he ingested a variety of pills for an imaginary heart problem.
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Why don't you introduce yourself here? 
