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If you are here to promote pseudoscience, fundamentalism or conspiracy theories, we're not interested in what you have to say. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:54, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tgeorgescu (talk) 01:52, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Tgeorgescu. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Talk:Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 01:58, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Why are you threatening me in that talk section of that page for posting primary source references that contradict the current fraudulent conclusions of Einstein's personal religious beliefs he published? Is it because it goes against common Atheist dogma that wishes to conclude Einstein was more of an Atheist than the Christian he claimed he was through Spinoza's God?

"We may be able quite to comprehend that God can communicate immediately with man, for without the intervention of bodily means He communicates to our minds His essence; still, a man who can by pure intuition comprehend ideas which are neither contained in nor deducible from the foundations of our natural knowledge, must necessarily possess a mind far superior to those of his fellow men, nor do I believe that any have been so endowed save Christ. To Him the ordinances of God leading men to salvation were revealed directly without words or visions, so that God manifested Himself to the Apostles through the mind of Christ as He formerly did to Moses through the supernatural voice. In this sense the voice of Christ, like the voice which Moses heard, may be called the voice of God, and it may be said that the wisdom of God (i.e. wisdom more than human) took upon itself in Christ human nature, and that Christ was the way of salvation."

- Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 1677, p. 12

Of that Einstein said scientists could not be Atheists because of they're "blind" faith "religion without science"?

"Religion and science go together. As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. ... And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God."

— Albert Einstein, Third conversation (1948): William Hermanns, Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man (1983), p. 94 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfbmod (talk • contribs) 22:37, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Fringe Theories Noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Fringe theories/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Tgeorgescu (talk) 02:04, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Talk page guidelines
Hi. Please do not modify comments to which someone already replied as you did here. See wp:REDACT. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 20:46, 12 June 2019 (UTC)


 * And please do not attack other editors like you did at Talk:Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein. Moreover, not only was the inquisition Christian (although I'm not saying that it represented the views of most Christians), but it was responsible for much suffering and many deaths.  It is ridiculous to compare the processes of an encyclopedia and the actions of its editors to such atrocities.  — Paleo  Neonate  – 23:37, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:00, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Tendentious editing
Okay, clearly you're not going to provide us with 2ndry sources as requested. Further innuendo unrelated to that is unwelcome. El_C 21:11, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for for tendentious editing and for making personal attacks ("bigoted viewpoints") towards other editors. You have been testing our welcome and patience, but you've gone too far this time. I caution you that, for the remainder of the block, you may only use this user talk page for an unblock request. Any other comments are likely to see your access to this talk page being revoked. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. El_C 00:25, 14 June 2019 (UTC) -- I have increased the block to one week due to block evasion. El_C 22:06, 14 June 2019 (UTC) -- As mentioned, while blocked, you may only use this talk page to submit an unblock request. Since you've failed to do so, your access to editing this talk page has been revoked. El_C 22:22, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Unblock request
The level of vitriol and invective in this unblock request is excessive, to say the least. You have failed to understand our no original research policy and instead doubled-down on the personal attacks and innuendo. From experience, I estimate the likelihood of your unblock request being granted to be approaching zero. El_C 22:36, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

does not address reasons for block. banned six months from UTRS -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 00:23, 18 November 2023 (UTC)