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Thursday, 14 August 2008 08:38 |
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Was Albert Einstein an atheist? The most famous scientist of the XXth century and one of the most brilliant minds that the mankind ever had, Albert Einstein, used to consider all religions as being primitives and childish, expressing his beliefs everytime he had the opportunity.
Religion, a result of mankind's weaknesses The man that revolutionized the world with his views about space, time and reality, wrote in a letter destined to a friend, in 1954, that "God, in my opinion, is nothing else than, the manifestation and the product of the human weakness, while the Bible, is just a colection of legends, respectable but primitives, which are,in any case, quite childish. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 August 2008 08:44 )
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The great pyramids of Egypt
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Monday, 30 June 2008 06:16 |
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Pyramids were pharaoh's graves and the zones where these constructions were placed, were centers of religious activity. It is believed that, it made monarhs passing to the other life easily. Pyramids had a square plan and four triangular sides that met in a top.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 July 2008 10:59 )
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Egyptian legends about the world making
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Monday, 30 June 2008 07:18 |
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A special places among the myths of ancient Egypt are the legends about the making of the world. According to one of them, the sun is born from a heavenly cow, another one says it raises from a lotus, and according to a third, it hatches from a goose egg. The common feature of all legends is perhaps only the notion about the initial chaos, from which slowly, different gods took birth and created the world in different ways.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 July 2008 10:56 )
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Monday, 30 June 2008 06:53 |
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Known as the feminine version of Dracula, in the XVIth century, Countess Elizabeth Bathory comes from a famous transylvanian family, her uncle, Stefan, was the King of Poland. The similitude with the famous character, Dracula, is due to her thirst for blood and desire to see people dying in pains. Despite a selected education, she expressed, since young, a volcanic temper and teribile crisis, signs of a possible epileptic disease. At 14 years she remained pregnant with a transylvanian peasant. Because of the shame caused to her family, her parents kept her isolated in a castle until she gave birth. It is believed that this gesture, and that her parents were blood relatives, have accentuated her deviant behaviors.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 July 2008 11:04 )
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