The FBI wrote a letter to Martin Luther King to commit suicide.
Martin Luther King.
Here is the letter.
FBI Letter to Martin Luther King ”Commit Suicide.’
Transcript.
KING,
In view of your low grade… I will not dignify your name with either a Mr. or a Reverend or a Dr. And, your last name calls to mind only the type of King such as King Henry the VIII…
King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes. White people in this country have enough frauds of their own but I am sure they don’t have one at this time anywhere near your equal. You are no clergyman and you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that. You could not believe in God… Clearly you don’t believe in any personal moral principles.
King, like all frauds your end is approaching. You could have been our greatest leader. You, even at an early age have turned out to be not a leader but a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile. We will now have to depend on our older leaders like Wilkins, a man of character and thank God we have others like him. But you are done. Your “honorary” degrees, your Nobel Prize (what a grim farce) and other awards will not save you. King, I repeat you are done.
No person can overcome facts, not even a fraud like yourself… I repeat — no person can argue successfully against facts… Satan could not do more. What incredible evilness… King you are done.
The American public, the church organizations that have been helping — Protestant, Catholic and Jews will know you for what you are — an evil, abnormal beast. So will others who have backed you. You are done.
King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do it (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance). You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
Now a hand written note by Einstein had surface where he explicitly says “the word God is ‘nothing more than the expression of human weaknesses’.
Einstein
A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which he calls religion ‘childish’ is to be sold at auction – with a starting price of £1.85million.
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist questions the existence of God in a letter penned to philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954.
The agnostic Jew goes on to say the Bible is a ‘collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish’.
He adds: ‘For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
Einstein Letter..
‘And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.
He added: ‘As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power.
‘Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.’
Science vs the divine: Despite being agnostic, Einstein felt an ‘affinity’ to the Jewish people
The letter, written one year before the German’s death in 1955, is commonly known as ‘The God Letter’.
When it was offered by Bloomsbury Auctions in 2008 it had an estimate of just £8,000. But a bidding frenzy resulted in one anonymous person eventually paying a staggering £170,000.
The letter has been stored in a temperature-controlled vault and will be sold through LA-based Auction Cause with a starting bid of $3 million (£1.85million). However, it has been estimated the letter could fetch as much as twice this figure.
Eric Gazin, president of Auction Cause, said: ‘This letter, in my opinion, is really of historical and cultural significance as these are the personal and private thoughts of arguably the smartest man of the 20th century.
‘The letter was written near the end of his life, after a lifetime of learning and thought.’
Einstein is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
His quotes on some subjects are provided here.
Because he was a Great Scientist does not mean that he is a Master of all Subjects and his views are Gospel!
(Like In India where Gandhi can speak on any topic and non should question it!)
I do not agree.
It is a matter of personal experience.
That’s all.
Einstein On Religion.
‘God does not play dice with the universe.” – Albert Einstein”Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein
“I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein
“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.” – Albert Einstein ‘The Human Side’, 1954
“Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” – Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here upon this earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.” – Albert Einstein
“There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.” – Albert Einstein
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player.” – Albert Einstein
“Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.” – Albert Einstein
“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.” – Albert Einstein
“I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.” – Albert Einstein”
You may note the Contradictions, at times he seems to agree on the Existence of God , at others ambivalent!
So let’s leave him at that, thinking along for clarity>
Nobel Prize has lost its sheen, if at all it has any.
Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has criticised female writers, especially Jane Austen, claiming they are ‘unequal’ to him.
Naipaul, known for his outspoken views, made the comments during an interview about his literary career.
The Trinidad-born writer said: ‘Women writers are different, they are quite different. I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think (it is) unequal to me.’
The gentleman in question had, on receiving emails from people who were hitherto unknown to him, demanded that people stop sending him emails remarking that those people were unknown to him( on being conferred the Nobel Award)
People of one’s country/state are normally proud the achievement of one who they consider their own and congratulate.
He could not understand that.
Now refusing to meet Modi because of Modi’s controversial image due to Godhrariots, is plain lack of manners and outright rude.
If he objects to Modi’s views/behavior, this is not the place and time.
People tend to develop arrogance and self righteousness once they believe they have mastered what they think they have.
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”-Newton.
Sources told TOI that efforts had been made to get Venki to meet Modi in Gandhinagar or Vadodara, but he is said to have refused apparently because of the CM’s tarnished image due to the 2002 riots.
According to sources, “Efforts had been made by the state education department and the chief minister’s office to arrange a meeting between the two, for 30 minutes or so, but it did not materialize because Venki did not agree.”
Linus Pauling is the prototypical example. A brilliant chemist who won two Nobel Prizes, one for chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize, in his later years Pauling became convinced that high dose vitamin C was a highly effective treatment for cancer and the common cold and, expanding upon that, came to believe in the quackery that is orthomolecular medicine. As a result, Pauling’s reputation was tainted for all time, and he became known more for his crankery than his successes. Since his death, Pauling’s successors have continued to chase his dream with minimal success because even massive doses of vitamin C have little or no effect on cancer and may even interfere with some chemotherapy regimens.
“The Nobel Prize system is dated and in desperate need of an overhaul, a group of top scientists and engineers said today (September 30) in a letter to the Nobel Foundation.” The Scientist-30/09/09
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Comments:
Economics seems to be as accurate as weather forecast.This category may be eliminated.
It seems only National Languages seem to be in the reckoning for Literature prize.Why not introduce for all Languages(translated, of course) say Indian Languages, like Telugu,Hindi,Tamil etc? Or is the category already in place?If so it is the best kept secret.
It is also pertinent to announce the practical or theoretical utility of prize winners’ contribution to their field, subsequent to their winning the prize
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