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Re: Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife

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Post by wildranter » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 9:05 AM UTC

wildranter wrote: post #90

To the individuals who are defending Einstein's behaviour towards his wife, I'm sorry to inform, you'll be ripped off of everything you have in a messy divorce. If you really think that's the right way to treat a person, please do a favor to humanity, marry your hand. Now that aside, looks like Einstein was human after all. And one full of behavioural defects for that matter. He could've handled that in a much more c…

To the downvoters, I meant it as a personal advice. However, your disaproval yield two things:

Firstly, I'm right. Down voting what I said doesn't alter the truth embedded within. Unless you change your mind and grow your heart, you're gonna get screwed by a divorce lawyer.

Secondly, it's just a freking integer on my screen, I like better floats! No mater how much that counter gets decremented you're still looking at it from the wrong perspective.

Re: Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife

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Post by theorique » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 2:22 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #188

theorique wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cultivated men are still jerks today, as a general rule. Extraordinary claim. What evidence do you have for this one?

> What evidence do you have for this one? My eyes.

Cultivated men look like jerks?

I must have missed it.

Re: Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife

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Post by Shorel » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #126

jacquesm wrote: post #87

Lots of judgments in this thread. Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. And keep in mind that we're looking at all this from almost a century later and that society has moved on quite a bit. Things that my grandparents would have considered perfectly a-ok would look ridiculous to you and me. Context is everything. In plenty of places in the world this would be an 'amicable arrangement' even today…

Since I seem to be the target of this comment I'll respond. Einstein was human. The purpose of using the phrases "womanizer" and "demanding jerk" was emotional -- we think of our heroes in pure terms. To associate them with negative judgmental phrases (such that we might easily use with anybody else in the world we meet) causes us distress. And from what I understand, Einstein chased women all his life, even during h…

"How can such a great man speak like this to one who loves him?"

There's your problem. You are supposing the existence of a feeling where it was probably another, probably opposite, feeling.

All your rant is based on a probably false premise.

Re: Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife

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Post by sh_vipin » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

Ilmarinen wrote: post #141

Why is this piece of celebrity gossip on hacker news?

Probably because it was after his divorce we got the famous quote ( which applies so well to entrepreneurship ) - "A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."