psyreporter wrote: ↑June 19th, 2022, 9:44 pmIn my very first forum I created a topic which discussed the claims about the existence of gods. It became the most popular and longest running topic in that forum, in a time when the subject was hardly discussed locally. It was rich with posts from both sides of the issue, but one day the moderator, which some of us got to know who he was (it's a small country), and his Christian affiliations, wiped out the entire thread. His rationale: he was just freeing up space!! No one would suggest it was part of a systematic effort from Christians groups to control discussions sensitive to their beliefs.Count Lucanor wrote: ↑June 19th, 2022, 9:10 pm After decades in public forums, dealing with the authority of moderators, which are imperfect humans as anyone else, and as such, can abuse their powers for reasons only found in the intricate mysteries of the human condition, I can easily sympathize with you. I know what the feeling is and how the whole situation resembles a kind of institutionalized, bureaucratic environment, where dissent is rapidly dissolved with apparently impersonal, objective administrative measures. It's like a Kafka novel. But ultimately, there's nothing really as systematic as it may seem.While that may be so, and I certainly didn't intend to suggest a conspiracy, a systematic tendency is something that can be perceived to be the case when sufficient incidents give a mere rise for consideration of such.
The cited incidents are of such a nature that it would justify such a consideration.
Instead of a 'closure' which is normally done, the post (an apparent popular and qualitative discussion with dozens of participants) was 'deleted'. And upon a next - decent written - post about the use of ESP for Cosmology, my account was banned.
I have perceived many similar questionable incidents and it simply caused me to wonder what could be an explanation.
psyreporter wrote: ↑June 19th, 2022, 9:44 pmI don't think there's convincing arguments to show that the motives behind Einstein's change of mind remain unanswered. It may be still the subject of speculation, but one should not get carried away with speculations. In the same article you posted from Physics Central it is said that Einstein changed his mind gradually. Misspelling Hubble's name can easily mean that he had not paid that much attention to him as the myth said.Count Lucanor wrote: ↑June 19th, 2022, 9:10 pmWhat about the additional fact that Albert Einstein's profound critical stance with regard the expanding Universe theory - two years after the discovery by Edwin Hubble - was just a year before he 'suddenly' admitted to priest Lemaître that he was wrong.psyreporter wrote: ↑June 19th, 2022, 1:05 am With regard the story about Albert Einstein. The questions asked seem valid and whether or not it concerns a conspiracy, the questions remain to be answered.I don't share your concern and level of suspicion in the Hubble/Einstein issue. Einstein's change of mind can be explained as a gradual process and by different motives, and there's nothing strange about it, only if one wants to force an explanation to fit the narrative of a conspiracy.
What was his motive?
Einstein then uses the public argument that he was convinced by 'listening' to a beautiful creation story, and then, which in my opinion is exceptionally questionable in the face of the preceding facts - for example the habitual misspelling of Edwin Hubble's name in a scientific paper that was mysteriously lost and found in Jerusalem half a century later - joins priest Lemaître on a tour across the USA to promote the Big Bang theory.
I do not agree that the above information is suggestive of a conspiracy or that it is justified to argue that the facts - when seen in combination - are not questionable.
The question "what was Einstein's motive to promote the Big Bang theory?" seems valid, relevant, unanswered (I have spent several years on it already) and potentially also important.
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