Posted by Gabbix2 on December 8, 2005, at 20:53:35
In reply to Einstein's Culture, posted by verne on December 8, 2005, at 19:20:00
> I didn't know that Einstein abused his wife. Was he German or Swiss?
>He was German, Ulm, or Uln I think.
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> For example: Noone in the family sits down to eat until the father sits down. When the father is through eating, everyone is through eating.
>> Most of them thought I was gay or a mental case. I'm not gay but I probably had more gay friends than straight friends when I was younger and still socializing. And I guess I am a mental case so they weren't far off.
>Well, uh, that sort of underscores the frequently arbitrary labelling of mental illness don't you think?
Yeah, they were fine, it was the way things are done in their culture, but YOU however are a "mental case"
Move somewhere where people think like you do, (in more significant ways than washing your own dishes, I mean) and you'll be CURED..Anyway, yeah Einstein was brought up in that culture, but he didn't seem to have a problem loudly denouncing it. He called himself a humanist, and a Pantheist, not likely anything he was brought up with : ) but somehow he still had that wife-beating problem..
Oh well everyone has their vice :[
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