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Old 01-08-2012, 06:15 PM   #1
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Default Isaac Newtons confessions discovered

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1190714.html

Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity, revolutionized optics and co-invented calculus, but as a teenager he saw himself as a sinner.

Brain Pickings found a list of confessions that the pious genius wrote at age 19, and it's equal parts endearing and disturbing. On the one hand, the lifelong virgin seemed to be worried about every little thing, including "Making pies on Thy day." But there's a darker side to these private confessions as well, including the fact that he admits to "Striking many" and "Punching my sister."

The confessions were digitized as part of The Newton Project, an ambitious attempt to make accessible all of Newton's writings, from the groundbreaking math that made him famous to the alchemy and mysticism of his later years. It's a vast trove, so don't be surprised if we share more interesting stuff from the writings of the man many consider the world's greatest scientist.

Here's the list:

1. Using the word (God) openly
2. Eating an apple at Thy house
3. Making a feather while on Thy day
4. Denying that I made it.
5. Making a mousetrap on Thy day
6. Contriving of the chimes on Thy day
7. Squirting water on Thy day
8. Making pies on Sunday night
9. Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day
10. Putting a pin in John Keys hat on Thy day to pick him.
11. Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons.
12. Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command.
13. Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them
14. Wishing death and hoping it to some
15. Striking many
16. Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.
17. Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer
18. Denying that I did so
19. Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it
20. Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
21. A relapse
22. A relapse
23. A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper.
24. Punching my sister
25. Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
26. Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
27. Glutiny in my sickness.
28. Peevishness with my mother.
29. With my sister.
30. Falling out with the servants
31. Divers commissions of alle my duties
32. Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times
33. Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections
34. Not living according to my belief
35. Not loving Thee for Thy self.
36. Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us
37. Not desiring Thy ordinances
38. Not long [longing] for Thee in [illegible]
39. Fearing man above Thee
40. Using unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
41. Caring for worldly things more than God
42. Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors.
43. Missing chapel.
44. Beating Arthur Storer.
45. Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter.
46. Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
47. Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
48. Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:19 PM   #2
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that's a pretty good idea

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:26 PM   #3
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newton and leibniz didn't co-invent calculus. they both developed different methods independently.
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:27 PM   #4
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Why don't you call arianna huffington and let her know mooney

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:28 PM   #5
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so he was pretty neurotic huh

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:28 PM   #6
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it would be long distance, that's why. and i'm scared of the telephone.

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:29 PM   #7
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so he was pretty neurotic huh
neurotic to the bone. no doubt about it.

http://musicblog.napster.com/wp-cont...08b970b-pi.jpg

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 06:33 PM   #8
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billy joe is a girl!

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:01 PM   #9
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he reminds me of this lesbian i know

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 07:11 PM   #10
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he barely looks human with all that powder on his god damn face

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 08:03 PM   #11
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Ha ha he died a virgin!

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 10:04 PM   #12
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neurotic to the bone. no doubt about it.

http://musicblog.napster.com/wp-cont...08b970b-pi.jpg
goddamn he looks awful

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 10:26 PM   #13
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maybe his sister left the kitchen

 
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Old 01-08-2012, 10:36 PM   #14
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This Isaac Newton guy doesn't sound like much of a free thinker. Never even got laid, and beholden to the opiate of the masses.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 01:57 AM   #15
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Moody today

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 03:16 AM   #16
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These are Ike's confessions
Just when he thought he said all he could say
His chick on the side said she got one on the way
These are Ike's confessions
Man, he's thrown and he don't know what to do
I guess we gotta give part two of Ike's confessions
If we gonna tell it then we gotta tell it all
Damn near cried when he got that phone call
Ike's so throwed and we don't know what to do
But to give you part two of his confessions

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 11:29 AM   #17
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um. every serious historian of science is already well aware of newton's extreme religiosity. he probably spent more time contemplating theology than physics

science vs religion my botty

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 12:23 PM   #18
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Wayne Newton's confessions would be a better find.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 04:57 PM   #19
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um. every serious historian of science is already well aware of newton's extreme religiosity. he probably spent more time contemplating theology than physics

science vs religion my botty
galileo probably would have rather not have been convicted of heresy for suggesting that the earth revolves around the sun and that biblical quotations should not be used as a basis for science.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:01 PM   #20
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moody not mooney

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:03 PM   #21
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if galileo was so smart how come HE didn't invent gravity, huh

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:05 PM   #22
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if galileo was so smart how come HE didn't invent gravity, huh
gravity is just a theory. same as evolution. both blasphemy.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:06 PM   #23
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moody not mooney
botty not booty.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 05:15 PM   #24
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neurotic to the bone. no doubt about it.

http://musicblog.napster.com/wp-cont...08b970b-pi.jpg
i find it more fascinating than newton's writing the process that would go through mooney's head when considering making this post
completely incomprehensible to me
as in i can't comprehend it
he saw the word neurotic and just had to not only quote green day but get a picture of their singer which makes sense in that if you were going to choose just one member you would pick who sang and presumably wrote the lyric but i don't follow even having the idea let alone executing it and i can't believe that the image is hosted on napster.com which really shouldn't even exist

 
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i find it more fascinating than newton's writing the process that would go through mooney's head when considering making this post
completely incomprehensible to me
as in i can't comprehend it
he saw the word neurotic and just had to not only quote green day but get a picture of their singer which makes sense in that if you were going to choose just one member you would pick who sang and presumably wrote the lyric but i don't follow even having the idea let alone executing it and i can't believe that the image is hosted on napster.com which really shouldn't even exist
thought process: anytime i hear or read the word neurotic it reminds me of this lyric from the second cd i ever owned and listened the shit out of. i was just going to post the lyric, but thought it would be perhaps be a bit ambiguous so i included a visual aid. i never actually thought about whether or not it would be worth posting or not, though. sorry.

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 06:22 PM   #26
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i bet most of the board would have gotten it without the picture

dookie was the first cd i owned. my sister gave it to me

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 06:28 PM   #27
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Dookie was def. in my early CDs/tapes, along with nevermind, Aerosmith get a grip, and weird al food album

 
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Old 01-09-2012, 08:28 PM   #28
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galileo probably would have rather not have been convicted of heresy for suggesting that the earth revolves around the sun and that biblical quotations should not be used as a basis for science.
what a cliche. galileo was a firm believer in christianity and by no means the only or first person who thought that scripture and observation cannot contradict each other.
and of course, the whole earth-around-the-sun thing is traditionally ascribed to copernicus, a catholic canon

 
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what a cliche. galileo was a firm believer in christianity and by no means the only or first person who thought that scripture and observation cannot contradict each other.
and of course, the whole earth-around-the-sun thing is traditionally ascribed to copernicus, a catholic canon
this wasn't an argument about the first person to postulate heliocentrism, that happened in like 300-something b.c. copernicus was chicken shit and didn't publish most of his works til on his deathbed because he knew the church would burn him at the stake, but thanks for helping flesh out my argument.

 
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Old 01-10-2012, 11:51 PM   #30
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I'm a big fan of #28

 
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