Robert Lanza, M.D. – BIOCENTRISM » Is Death An Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End

After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right – death is an illusion. Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence. We believe in death because we’ve been taught we die. Until we recognize the universe in our heads, attempts to understand reality will remain a road to nowhere. Consider the weather ‘outside’: You see a blue sky, but the cells in your brain could be changed so the sky looks green or red. In truth, you can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Consider the famous two-slit experiment. Or consider Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle. Death doesn’t exist in a timeless, spaceless world. Bizarre? Arcane?

Rice Boy Tom Bissell reviews Spec Ops: The Line and explores the reasons why we play shooter games. In early June, at the E3 convention in Los Angeles, I attended a demo for a game called Splinter Cell: Blacklist. In the demo, I watched the Splinter Cell franchise’s long-established hero, Sam Fisher — operating somewhere in Middle Eastistan — enter a tent, kill two gentlemen, and grab a third. Sam asks this third gentleman where a certain colleague of his might be. We’ve arrived in a strange emotional clime when our popular entertainment frequently depicts torture as briskly effective rather than literally the worst thing one human being can do to another — yea verily, worse even than killing. I left the Blacklist demo sick and infuriated, which was a shame, because the person introducing the demo was a game designer I admire and have long wanted to meet. — Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War Shooters are very popular and thus very profitable. Not all shooter violence is violent per se. Metro 2033: Killing stuff is depressing as hell. Needs to be less glib.

Inside the foreclosure factory, they're working overtime Justin Sullivan / Getty Images A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home. Errors are being made in the process that lead lenders to foreclose on homes. By John W. In a quiet office in downtown Charlotte, N.C., dozens of Wells Fargo’s foreclosure foot soldiers sit in cubicles cranking out documents the bank relies on to seize its share of the thousands of homes lost to foreclosure every week. They stare at computer screens and prepare sworn affidavits that are used by lenders in courts across the country to seize homes. If they fall short, they face a verbal warning. Pressured to meet daily production quotas, they are likely making mistakes that inadvertently could toss a family out of its home and onto the street, according to these workers. State and federal prosecutors, in a recent settlement with five banks that included Wells Fargo, agreed. "These are mistakes that could cost someone their home," a Wells Fargo document preparer told msnbc.com. Are you a foreclosure document processor?