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Talking with God

Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer. In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I’m still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. Got myself a nice window seat, no screaming brats or drunken hooligans within earshot.

http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal

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http://www2.marketocracy.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Portfolio.woa/ps/FundsOverviewPage/bfix=1/source=AjKoBoPiEbJdMlLbMaKiAbDe

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wikipedia

Transformation forces

The Mind and other Dangerous Things

Simple Symmetry, Complex Solution

docein

Are Humans Turning Into Gods?

Our friend Jason Silva—writer, filmmaker and founding host/producer of Current TV—is making a new documentary celebrating humans reaching their ultimate potential, the inexorable evolution that is turning us into gods. He's quite optimistic about it. I'm not so sure-JD Turning Into Gods is, like evolution, a work in a progress. The aim of the documentary is to explore and celebrate mankind's journey to 'play jazz with the universe'... it is a story of our ultimate potential, the reach of our intelligence, the scope of our scientific and engineering abilities and the transcendent quality of our heroic and noble calling.

I can't wait until this comes out. by thalarct Dec 29

Factual Aspects of the Coming Changes

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/mayan-culture/

The Mayan culture belongs to the Mayan civilizations, which is one of the oldest civilizations. Art of weaving, handicrafts and wood carvings are the special features of Mayan culture. Interestingly, the Mayans never disappeared. Set in Mexico, the Mayans descendants are living with distinct ideologies than the others who settled there.

consumerisms

Singularity (things leading up to it)

delicious

Interview with Elijah I know this sounds kind of strange, but remember, physicality originally was just a way of tightly focusing in on divine energy. Making abstract ideas more “concrete,” so to speak.

Heaven Exposed - Sci-Fi & Fantasy

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/443979/jewish/Heaven-Exposed.htm

socio-political economics (domestic & intl.)

organization tools etc

imperative events

science

Science Story | Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything'

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2010/09/hawking-mlodinow-no-theory-of_30.html

Physics Buzz: Hawking & Mlodinow: No 'theory of everything'

In a Scientific American essay based on their new book A Grand Design , Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow are now claiming physicists may never find a theory of everything. Instead, they propose a "family of interconnected theories" might emerge, with each describing a certain reality under specific conditions. Most of the history of physics has been dominated by a realist approach. Scientists simply accepted that their observations could give direct information about an objective reality. In classical physics, such a view was easily defensible, but the emergence of quantum mechanics has shaken even the staunchest realist. In a quantum world, particles don't have definite locations or even definite velocities until they've been observed.

space

Invertebrate Astronauts Make Space History | Wired Science | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/invertebrate-as/

It’s one small step for Tardigrada , and one giant leap for the animal kingdom: The toughest creature on Earth has survived a trip into space. Except for a few hardy strains of bacteria, any other creature would have been destroyed — but tardigrades handled the voyage as though it were a dry spell on their local moss patch. “They have claws and eyes. They are real animals.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-12/researchers-find-evidence-other-universes-cosmic-microwave-background

Researchers Find Evidence of Other Universes Lurking in the Cosmic Background | Popular Science

Just when the search for exoplanets looked like the undisputed fashionable field of study for 2010, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is stepping to the forefront of astronomy and cosmology. Last month, it was Oxford’s Roger Penrose claiming that he’d found evidence of a cyclical universe in patterns of concentric circles in the CMB, suggesting our universe is just one of many that have come before it (and will come after it). Now, another group of researchers are claiming the CMB contains evidence of other universes that exist concurrently (and outside of) our own.

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Psychology

Neuroscience

Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neuroscience of Selfhood: Scientific American

SELF REFLECTION: Bodily illusions teach neuroscientists about the sense of self. Image: crimfants, flickr.com Where are you right now?

Neuroscience

Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neuroscience of free will refers to recent neuroscientific investigation of questions concerning free will . It is a topic of philosophy and science . One question is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions or decisions.

The main purposes of this review are to set out for neuroscientists one possible approach to the problem of consciousness and to describe the relevant ongoing experimental work. We have not attempted an exhaustive review of other approaches. Clearing The Ground We assume that when people talk about "consciousness," there is something to be explained. While most neuroscientists acknowledge that consciousness exists, and that at present it is something of a mystery, most of them do not attempt to study it, mainly for one of two reasons: We have taken exactly the opposite point of view.

Consciousness and Neuroscience

Whenever AR sees a face, her thoughts are bathed in colour and each identity triggers its own rich hue that shines across her mind's eye. This experience is a type of synaesthesia which, for about one in every 100 people, automatically blends the senses. Some people taste words, others see sounds, but AR experiences colour with every face she sees. But on this occasion, perhaps for the first time in her life, a face is just a face.

Hypnosis reaches the parts brain scans and neurosurgery cannot | Vaughan Bell | Science | guardian.co.uk

human evolution

Evolution

SAN FRANCISCO — The greatest extinction in the history of life may have been caused, in part, by ozone-depleting gases spewed in a massive volcanic eruption, a new study suggests. Geologists have found surprisingly high amounts of the elements fluorine and chlorine in Siberian lavas dating back 250 million years — when about 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial species went extinct. Benjamin Black, a graduate student at MIT, and his colleagues described their theory Dec. 13 in a poster presentation at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Researchers have long struggled to explain the “Great Dying” that occurred at the end of the Permian period. Some think that the extinction was a long, drawn-out affair caused by multiple factors — perhaps gradual changes in oceanic or atmospheric chemistry ( SN: 5/28/05, p. 339 ).

Massive Volcanism May Have Caused Biggest Extinction Ever | Wired Science | Wired.com

Singularity (things leading up to it)

tech

Antarctic Ice Sheet Preserves Invisible Mountain Range | Wired Science | Wired.com

Buried deep beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, the Gamburtsev Mountains are the world’s most invisible range. New research suggests that overlying ice like that hiding them from view today could have preserved their rugged topography for the past 300 million years. The work bolsters the counterintuitive notion that glaciers, rather than just carving down young peaks into eroded hills like a buzzsaw, could sometimes protect high jagged terrain.

News Story | Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1

Computer, Technology

Alex Abella: Rand Corporation, The Shadowy Think Tank That Shaped Our Modern World ! Genetically Re-Engineered Man And The Rise Of The Scientific, Technocratic Dictatorship New World Order! « Socio-Economics History Blog

Tablets / Computers

Illustration: Oksana Badrak The four horsemen of the apocalypse can afford to be smug bastards. They have transportation. But after they gallop off into the sunset, you—assuming you’ve somehow survived—are still going to need a ride. The good news: Since civilization will be in ruins, waiting in line at the DMV won’t be an issue.

Michael Hoggard: Solomon’s Key Revealed, Masonic Secrets, Neo Nephilim Man, Remaking of Man Via Stem Cell Genetic Engineering…. « Socio-Economics History Blog

A Decade of Discovery

The Big Picture