The God statement from a physicist?

[lightbulb27]

What does this statement say to you... and what does it do for your life?

“But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” (Bible 2 Peter 3:8).

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Einstein was a very strict determinist to my understanding so he didn't believe in concepts like metaphysical free will, instead believing that all of our human behaviors were entirely constrained by the material nature of the universe.

I lean in the same direction although I still think it's a useful illusion that we're "altering" the future with our present actions. That's still a fundamental part of our psychology and the way our consciousness experiences time in a linear fashion.

[lightbulb27]

either the future already happened and we are immaterial, or we are altering future... or there is no future.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I prefer the altering future view and possibly even an immaterial one although not necessarily based on beliefs in the supernatural but simply what I think is psychologically optimal.

We can derive more value through our conscious experiences if we can see things as more than the sum of their parts, like a human being as more than just flesh and blood and bone but a "soul" (in a poetic sense, not a supernatural one), in the same way we can appreciate a painting a lot more if we see as more than just oil pigment on canvas: the sum of its material components.

It's not really a matter of what's technically correct to me despite being very much an empiricist. It's more a matter of helps us to find a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.

[Dongie]

I like Einstein but that just pisses me off.

[IslaTheWitch]

It connects to the time idea from Arrival movie... I would like to experience time this way

[strateguy632]

i doubt a. e. said something so vague

[lightbulb27]

apparently he did... https://www. scientificamerican. com/article/time-s-passage-is-probably-an-illusion/

not too far from this one:
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

[AngryCarl]

So you're saying Einstein wrote the Bible?

[lightbulb27]

nope