What Happens When I Die? Art by Alex Grey In order to answer the question, "What happens when I die? " I feel it is important to take a look at something a bit less speculative and that is the question of what happens when we live. There is no way to understand death if you don't know what life is. What happens between the moment you take your first breath and the moment you draw your very last? Who is it that is looking out through your eyes? Is it not the same quality of awareness that existed right before you read these words? And that awareness, the pure state of awareness was there before you could form words or even knew your name. The essential self is not contained within the boundaries of worldly identification, although it plays in those fields. The essential self is not limited in perception by the five senses, although it enjoys experiencing them. The self that is eternal is not limited by space and time, although it uses space and time to creatively express its essence.
You are not your thoughts. Peace, 16. A Guide to Logical Fallacies. By Paul Newall (2005) Expanding on our fourth discussion, we'll now look at the kinds of moves—rhetorical or otherwise—that can be made when setting out or defending an idea and countering others. We'll also consider some common errors in reasoning that come up in philosophical arguments from time to time, like anywhere else.
The purpose of this piece is to provide a toolbox of concepts to use or refer back to when reading through and evaluating pieces of philosophy. Making an argument Although often we make arguments to try to learn about and understand the world around us, sometimes we hope to persuade others of our ideas and convince them to try or believe them, just as they might want to do likewise with us. What is the best (or most effective) way to persuade people of something?
In a philosophical context, then, we need to bear in mind that arguments may be flawed and that rhetorical excesses can be used to make us overlook that fact. Fallacies Argumentum ad hominem Quote. Apple Events - Apple Special Event October 2011. How To Get The New Google Bar on Chrome. Native Client turns Chrome into high-end gaming platform | The Download Blog.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --Google's new technology to secure the Web and make browsers significantly more powerful got its first public demo tonight at the company's headquarters south of San Francisco after three years under wraps. Calling it Native Client, Google says that integrating technology into Chrome is essential for the future of Web browsers. To show that Native Client is road-ready, the company used its event to announce several new Chrome-only versions of games known for their rich and processor-intensive graphics, available immediately. It also revealed that the browser currently has more than 200 million users worldwide. The first public demonstration of Native Client started off with Ian Ellison-Taylor, director of product management for the open Web at Google, giving an overview of the questions that led to Native Client's creation.
(Credit: Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) The popular Xbox game Bastion has been ported to Google Chrome using the new Native Client technology. WebGL. Design[edit] Like OpenGL ES 2.0, WebGL does not have the fixed-function APIs introduced in OpenGL 1.0 and deprecated in OpenGL 3.0. This functionality can instead be provided by the user in the JavaScript code space. Shaders in WebGL are expressed directly in GLSL. History[edit] WebGL evolved out of the Canvas 3D experiments started by Vladimir Vukićević at Mozilla. Vukićević first demonstrated a Canvas 3D prototype in 2006. By the end of 2007, both Mozilla[6] and Opera[7] had made their own separate implementations. In early 2009, the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group started the WebGL Working Group, with initial participation from Apple, Google, Mozilla, Opera, and others.[4][8] Version 1.0 of the WebGL specification was released March 2011.[1] As of March 2012, the chair of the working group is Ken Russell.
Early applications of WebGL include Google Maps and Zygote Body.[9][10] More recently[when?] Support[edit] WebGL is widely supported in modern browsers. Security[edit] Marilyn Manson. BBC Nature - Chimpanzees consider their audience when communicating. 29 December 2011Last updated at 17:01 By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature The chimps made soft "hoo" sounds to warn individuals that had not seen the threat Chimpanzees appear to consider who they are "talking to" before they call out. Researchers found that wild chimps that spotted a poisonous snake were more likely to make their "alert call" in the presence of a chimp that had not seen the threat.
This indicates that the animals "understand the mindset" of others. The insight into the primates' remarkable intelligence will be published in the journal Current Biology. The University of St Andrews scientists, who carried out the work, study primate communication to uncover some of the origins of human language. To find out how the animals "talked to each other" about potential threats, they placed plastic snakes - models of rhino and gaboon vipers - into the paths of wild chimpanzees and monitored the primates' reactions. "They also tend to sit in one place for weeks.
Robin Williams Hijacks TED BBC conference. In Focus: Mexico Drug War, Five Years Later. Posted Dec 21, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare19 A graphic picture is emerging in Mexico five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his all-out assault on organized crime: Mass killings as cartels fight each other for territory and civilians caught in the violence; police unable to prevent the mayhem or to investigate the aftermath. The government needed to act decisively, he said, to prevent organized crime from taking over the country. Over the next five years, he deployed 45,000 troops, made major hits on the leadership of at least five cartels and spent nearly $46 billion fighting organized crime, his defining domestic policy. Since then, chaos has exploded on the ground in once-quiet places across the country, including Veracruz.
The warring splinter groups have allowed two major cartels to take over most of the territory. Meanwhile, drugs continue to flow into the United States. Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. Google Chrome Uses Graphics Card to Accelerate SVG, CSS. One t-shirt essentially started the Half-Life 3 rumor train that, for now, has come to an abrupt end. Earlier this month, a Valve employee was spotted by Chandana Ekanayak, art director and executive producer at Uber Entertainment, at a local game development event wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt.
While the logo itself was inconsistent with the design of the Half-Life 2 logo (reversed actually), the shirt clearly read "Half-Life 3" underneath the design. Since then, numerous Half-Life 3 rumors have surfaced. One stems from a website located at www.black-aperture.com that, at this moment, features nothing but a blank, black page. But at one time it featured the correct Half-Life 3 logo, and the logos for Steam, Valve and Source lined along the bottom. A hidden Aperture Science logo was also reportedly seen within the Half-Life 3 symbol by slightly tilting the screen.
"You are being trolled," he writes. "I just want to say this so there is no confusion," he added. Bummer. Save Tom's, Stop SOPA. Here at Tom’s Hardware, you know we don’t typically get political because with the heated debates between AMD vs. Intel who needs Donkeys vs. Elephants? We’ve got no agenda beyond providing the best hardware news and reviews we can dig up. But here at Year’s end, there’s a subject we want to share with you that may come to affect how you experience us and the rest of the internet.
It’s called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate. Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. As an example, imagine a user posts a video clip to the Tom’s Community of a step-by-step guide on how to set up water cooling on an overclocked i7 CPU. Check a Man's Sperm Count. Shovel Snow Like a Pro. Get Your Music Off of Your iPod. From Wired How-To Wiki Dumping your entire music collection onto an iPod is a simple, one-click process. But what about getting your music off an iPod? You'll find that's not so easy. Apple's iTunes software only lets you put the music onto the player, and not the other way around.
The iPod/iTunes combo was designed with this restriction built in to prevent piracy and illicit trading. However, there are a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from your iPod to your hard drive. Fortunately, there are many applications you can use to get your tunes off your iPod. What You'll Need 1. 2. The simplest method for grabbing tunes off of your iPod is also the geekiest. How To (Mac) Simple On a Mac, you'll need to enable hidden folders in the Finder. 1. 2. Defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUEkillall Finder 3. Advanced Mac users with no fear of using the terminal can do this with a couple of UNIX shell commands: How To (Windows) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A. How To: Move Music from iPod to PC in 5 Easy Steps. I’m a big fan of the iPod but what I don’t like is Apple not being very forthcoming about how to move music from the iPod back to the PC.
They’re quick enough to tell you how to move the music from your PC to your iPod but when you want to do the opposite, Apple clams up tight. Their reasoning is probably that the only reason you’d want to take your music off the iPod is to copy it and illegally distribute it. But that is really an insult to the music buyer. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why you would want to move your music from the iPod back to the PC. For a start, what if your hard-drive crashed and the only copies of the music were on your iPod?
Or you accidentally deleted a song from your hard-drive and you wanted it back, without having to buy another copy? It has taken me ages to work out how to get the music off the iPod and onto the computer but I have finally got it. The easy five-step guide to moving your music from your iPod to your PC 1. 2. Double-click on that. 3. The Fox and the Grapes. The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668 "The Fox and the Grapes" is one of the traditional Aesop's fables and can be held to illustrate the concept of cognitive dissonance. In this view, the premise of the fox that covets inaccessible grapes is taken to stand for a person who attempts to hold incompatible ideas simultaneously.
In that case, the disdain the fox expresses for the grapes at the conclusion to the fable serves at least to diminish the dissonance even if the behaviour in fact remains irrational.[1] Before "cognitive dissonance" was invented there was a moral to the story and the moral was "Any fool can despise what he can not get"[2] The fable[edit] Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. La Fontaine's Le Renard et les Raisins[edit] The gallant would gladly have made a meal of them But as he was unable to succeed, says he:
Sour grapes. Sour grapes Sour grapes may refer to: Rhetorics[edit] An expression originating from "The Fox and the Grapes," one of Aesop's Fables. It refers to making a false pretense to form a Rationalization, i.e., not to care for something one wants, but does not or cannot have.An allusion to the line in Jeremiah (31:29) and Ezekiel (18:2) (KJV): "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. " Music[edit] Books[edit] Other[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Cognitive dissonance. In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.[1][2] Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency.
When inconsistency (dissonance) is experienced, individuals tend to become psychologically uncomfortable and they are motivated to attempt to reduce this dissonance, as well as actively avoiding situations and information which are likely to increase it.[1] Relationship between cognitions[edit] Individuals can adjust their attitudes or actions in various ways. Adjustments result in one of three relationships between two cognitions or between a cognition and a behavior.[1] Magnitude of dissonance[edit] The pressure to reduce cognitive dissonance is a function of the magnitude of said dissonance.[1] Reducing[edit] E. The real 'invented' people. It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel's legitimacy as a state would buy into former Speaker Newt Gingrich's argument that Palestine is an "invented nation".
The singular triumph of the Zionist movement is that it invented a state and a people - Israel and the Israelis - from scratch. The first Hebrew-speaking child in 1900 years, Ittamar Ben-Avi, was not born until 1882. His father, the brilliant linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, created a modern language for him to speak by improvising from the language of the Bible. The founder of the Israeli state was Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), an assimilated Viennese writer who was convinced by the Dreyfus trial in France - and the horrendous right-wing anti-Semitism that resulted from it - that Jews had to get out of Europe.
In 1897, he wrote the book that would essentially inaugurate the Zionist movement. He didn't specify where the Jewish homeland should be. The reaction to Herzl's idea was primarily that he was a bit crazy. _lwcrqaPNAm1qiah0po1_500.jpg (471×640) Bitch Slappin Batman - i think people can relate to my post think again. I Said No to My Student Loan: One Borrower's Decision to Stop Paying. December 4, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. I’ve been in a panic these last few months. Making minimum payments on my student loans serviced by Sallie Mae Inc. was no longer merely a challenge – it was getting impossible.
I am aware of the total lack of consumer protection associated with student debt. But I took a long, hard look at the numbers, and I realized that I am already a slave. Here is a screenshot of the current status of my Sallie Mae loans as of November 27, 2011 (click to enlarge): Notice anything? Original balance: $37,099.00 Current balance: $35, 908. 41 I’ve been in repayment since 2006. Because Sallie Mae helpfully provides a payment history, I was able to whip out a calculator and count up the exact amount I have paid over these last few years. That amount is $23, 449.65 I was done before I even knew it. Of course, the lending industry has its own arguments. Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind.
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