Early Lives Of The Scientists: Teen Isaac Newton Admits to His Sins
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[QUOTE]The Newton Project, a UK organization that's putting the complete works of Isaac Newton online, is featuring an amazing list of 48 "sins" that 19-year-old Isaac committed in 1662, according to a list he wrote. The young genius was both very pious and very peevish, having punched his sister, poked Iohn Keys with a pin, and even threatened to burn down his stepfather's house.
And all this before Whitsunday!
Here is the complete, and completely scandalous, list:
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Vsing the word (God) openly
Eating an apple at Thy house
Making a feather while on Thy day
Denying that I made it.
Making a mousetrap on Thy day
Contriving of the chimes on Thy day
Squirting water on Thy day
Making pies on Sunday night
Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day
Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him.
Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons11
Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command.
[B]Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them[/B]
Wishing death and hoping it to some
[B]Striking many[/B]
Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.
[B]Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer[/B]
Denying that I did so
Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it
Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee
A relapse
A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper.
[B]Punching my sister[/B]
Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar
Calling Dorothy Rose a jade
Glutiny in my sickness.
Peevishness with my mother.
With my sister.
Falling out with the servants
Divers commissions of alle my duties
Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times
Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections
Not living according to my belief
Not loving Thee for Thy self.
Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us
Not desiring Thy ordinances
Not long {longing} for Thee in {illeg}
Fearing man above Thee
Vsing unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
Caring for worldly things more than God
Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors.
Missing chapel.
[B]Beating Arthur Storer.[/B]
Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter.
Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday[/release]
A kimnel is a large wooden tub for brewing, kneading, and salting meat, according to Merriam-Webster.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/early-lives-scientists-teen-isaac-newton-admits-his-sins[/url]
"Thy Day" = Sunday, by the way.
[quote]Squirting water on Thy day[/quote]
Pissing on Sunday is a sin? Interesting.
At least I assume that's what it is.
[QUOTE=GetBent;34087999]Pissing on Sunday is a sin? Interesting.
At least I assume that's what it is.[/QUOTE]
Maybe he's referring to what he made his lady friend do...
:v:
[QUOTE=GetBent;34087999]Pissing on Sunday is a sin? Interesting.
At least I assume that's what it is.[/QUOTE]
I think he might mean jacking off since I don't see how taking a leak on Sunday could in any way shape or form be considered sinning, however I could be wrong.
[QUOTE=GetBent;34087999]Pissing on Sunday is a sin? Interesting.
At least I assume that's what it is.[/QUOTE]
Damn, I wish I could piss pure water. All I piss is piss.
He must've shat himself when an Apple fell on his head, he might've thought it was an Apple of Eden, a sign of God.
[QUOTE=Kendra;34088167]He must've shat himself when an Apple fell on his head, he might've thought it was an Apple of Eden, a sign of God.[/QUOTE]
I just imagined a man screaming like a small girl... over an apple.
[quote]Twisting a cord on Sunday morning[/quote]
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That's all? Bitch please, I've had worse.
[quote=Issac Newton]Eating an apple at Thy house[/quote]
Hardcore man.
so people spend their time looking to see sins that people who are dead did while they were alive?
...wow that's fucking stupid
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[QUOTE=DSG;34088332]so people spend their time looking to see sins that people who are dead did while they were alive?
...wow that's fucking stupid[/QUOTE]
That's not what they do. Read:
"The Newton Project, a UK organization that's [B]putting the complete works of Isaac Newton online[/B], is featuring an amazing list of 48 "sins" that 19-year-old Isaac committed in 1662, according to a list he wrote."
"Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer"
and then "Beating Arthur Storer".
What the hell did Isaac have against the Storer's :(
[QUOTE=VeniVidiVici74;34089375]"Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer"
and then "Beating Arthur Storer".
What the hell did Isaac have against the Storer's :([/QUOTE]
It's the rival gang.
Haha those lame ass storers sure got shown
[quote]Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday[/quote]
why wasnt he hung for this monstrous act of the devil
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[quote]Making pies on Sunday night[/quote]
my god.
How the hell is making a pie on Sunday night a sin...
Welp, that must mean Grandma's in hell now!
Now imagine if Newton didn't stop his research because he thought there were some things unable to be explained as they were done by God.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;34089989]How the hell is making a pie on Sunday night a sin...
Welp, that must mean Grandma's in hell now![/QUOTE]
Going along with the "squirt" comment, I'm guessing he means "cream pie" :v:
... That is utterly confusing.
Why didn't you bold "Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese."
Sounds like he had some wet thoughts, and dreams.
[QUOTE=Rich209;34090098]Why didn't you bold [B]"Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese."[/B][/QUOTE]
Happy?
I almost want to think this is satirical, and Newton wrote half of those to show how bullshit the Christian religion is.
It's almost like he's trying to say "Cooking on Sunday is a sin in this crazy ass religion? But it's okay as long as you confess to Jesus. LOL"
I don't know enough about Newton to know if that was in his character or not.
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Peevishness with my mother.
With my sister.
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I don't know if the "With my sister" is a continuation of the previous line, or if he means that as in "Intimately" with his sister.
Sounds like a badass to me.
I'm sure it had a bit to do with Sabbath and the way you are not to tire yourself or work during that particular day/days. In his case, Sunday, the day of worship
People today take the Bible word for word and Jesus himself in the Bible said you do not need to busy yourselves with all these rules.
[quote]With my sister.[/quote]
I can't believe he thought that with his sister was a good idea.
So basically he was a saint by today's standards?
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