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Death is not a flight, it's not a trip, it's not a journey, it is the obliteration of you where you cease to exist the moment your brain cells have died.

"What happens after you die? Nature is a harsh mistress indeed.

What happens after death is very clear, your body rots as it’s being recycled by Nature and “you” are permanently and utterly obliterated you cease to be no magical heaven, no roasting hell, you just cease to be when your brain stops working that’s it nothing more.

What happens when you take something apart, such as a car? As you begin to remove non-critical pieces it’s still a car, you can take the roof off and it’s still a car, you can take the hub caps off and it’s still a car, you can even take the doors off and it’s still a car; taking the wheels off and while it’s still a car it’s now a disabled car but at some point as you remove parts – critical parts – it’s no longer a car; and if as you take those parts off the car and destroy them so there is no chance of putting it back together either that’s what happens with humans and other living things at some point a critical component or critical components are removed or cease functioning that are critical for it to be alive and that’s it that is the moment you cease to be – when your brain stops functioning, just like a car ceases to be.

Now to be sure, did the car go to “car heaven”? Nope, it simple ceased to be, it vanished it’s car-ness is no more it existed from the point that it’s critical parts made it a car and was a car while it was a car and then it ceased to be after it was disassembled at that critical moment when enough parts where removed that it ceased to be

Enjoy being alive. It is all that matters. Everything else is meaningless.

There is no mystery about death. Only people who don’t want to face it or those that don’t like it make it mysterious and invent alleged gods and being saved by jesus to a futile pitiful attempt to defy the objective reality of Nature in it’s harshness and cold fact of obliterating end of life.

Science wins over mythology. If after reading the attached article/document you still believe in the resurrection of jesus you know that you’re highly delusional and denying the facts of life in the objective reality of Nature.

BE. Even BE kind to others. For no other reason than the shocking horror of our own ceasing to be.

Here is the science:"
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2010/07/29/what-happens-after-you-die/

"US Federal Appeals Courts ten years ago declared pepper spraying peaceful protesters to be an illegal violation of their 4th amendment rights to be free from excessive force and that officers who cause such felony assault are liable for their actions and do not receive protection of sovereign immunity as their actions are excessive use of force which the 4th amendment prohibits."
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2011/11/21/pepper-spraying-peaceful-protesters-is-illegal-excessive-force-so-says-us-federal-appeals-court or http://wp.me/ps3dI-1nW

"A Long Island woman Monday became the first Occupy Wall Street protester to file a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the NYPD of arresting her without cause at a Citibank branch after she closed her account in protest."
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/ows-protester-from-li-sues-over-arrest-1.3337955

"The complaint in Carpenter v. City of New York, filed in the Southern District of New York today, alleges violations of the Fourth Amendment resulting from false arrest and excessive force. "
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2011/11/occupy-wrongful-arrest-and-police-brutality-lawsuits-begin.html

"A new ruling by the Supreme Court in Canada will allow journalists and bloggers greater protection from defamation lawsuits, establishing the new defence of responsible journalism.

If sued for defamation, journalists will be able to defend themselves by proving that they acted in the public interest and that they acted in a responsible way to gather the information. This rule will still apply even if particular facts are found to be false." - Canadian Supreme Court Strengthens Press Freedom"

http://pathstoknowledge.net/2010/01/09/the-new-defense-of-responsible-journalism

online videos: algebra + calculus
http://justmathtutoring.com/
http://www.mathtutor.ac.uk/
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.graderocket.tv/index.php

Uni Maths Videos
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/
http://press.princeton.edu/video/banner/
http://academicearth.org/subjects/mathematics
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/calculus-video-lectures-bonus-basic.html
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ (requires iTunes download)

Resources from Universities
http://www.germanna.edu/tutor/helpful_handouts.asp?menuchoice=Helpful%20Handouts (wow)
http://mathforum.org/

Free online books:
http://www.jamesbrennan.org/algebra/systems/solution_set.htm
http://cnx.org/content/m18205/latest/?collection=col10624
http://www.jirka.org/diffyqs/ (Differential eqns)
http://www.purplemath.com/
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

PowerPoints
http://www.online.math.uh.edu/HoustonACT/

Tutoring services
http://www.nutshellmath.com/

Collections of Links
http://math.about.com/od/mathhelpandtutorials/Math_Help_and_Tutorials_by_Subject_and_or_Topic.htm
http://pathstoknowledge.net/

Problems
http://projecteuler.net/

Some computer Resources
http://www.graphmatica.com/
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/

http://www.pathstoknowledge.net/ has a large collection of links to math and other science videos available from universities. Look down the right side and you'll find the links way down under "Science Info Educational Videos". A lot of great courses all free, with many from major universities.

NO I'm not a skeptical person with regards to the CLAIMS of science! I'm a scientist that DEMANDS PROOF OF ANY AND ALL scientific CLAIMS! When I see claims that are unsupportable given the counter evidence then it's very difficult to accept those claims. I need actual evidence not political propaganda pretending to be science. The claims of the AGW Hypothesis are very much like the claims of Young Earth Creationists, all the counter evidence is dismissed. As you'll see the AGW hypothesis has been disproven now, at least enough to require HARD EVIDENCE beyond refute before it can be taken seriously.

Of course I know as most people do that a white surface reflects more heat off of a surface than a black surface does. You shouldn't insult people like that.

Your experiment is lacking in finesse to reproduce the effect with enough confidence to know for sure that it models reflection off the Earth's surface and through the atmosphere.

Well there is a chance that you might be right about the reflection of the radiation back into space, I'll grant you that. I'll have to study the materials you pointed me to in depth.

"I guess that you think of yourself as being a "skeptical" person with regards to the claims of science."

No not at all. I am a scientist.

It's clear that what Chu has been saying has little relevant science to back it up as it's mostly political nonsense designed to bring in more political control systems under the pretense of the faulty AWG Hypothesis which has now been disproven (see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/24/disproving-the-anthropogenic-global-warming-agw-problem/).

However, it's been calculated that only ~1.5% of the surface of the Earth cities or towns and even if everything in every town and city was painted a perfect reflecting color that's simply not enough to correct the increasing temp of Earth.

Besides your and the others are proceeding on a false assumption that humans have caused global warming and even on the faulty assumption that global warming is a bad thing! It's not. In fact our human civilizations have benefited tremendously from warmer temperatures in the past than it is now. The ice core records from Greenland show that it's been much warmer than it is now for thousands of years about 8,000 years ago. Then during the roman age about ~4,000 years ago through ~2,000 years ago the temperature started deceasing by about 2.5c but they still didn't reach the recent bottom as there was the medieval warm period where it got warmer. It wasn't until ~140 years ago that the temperature of earth reached bottom in what is know as the little ice age. The temp has been climbing since way before man started driving cars and emitting C02 (an essential plant nutrient). See the video here: http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/proofs-against-anthropogenic-global-warming/ . The point is that the Mann hockey stick graph distorts the facts by not looking at the last 10,000 year record and by the use of statistical games and bizarre weirdness in his temperature proxy data selection policy that it's essentially useless except to promote lies that we are doomed.

I'm not a skeptic for skeptics sake. I'm simply not one to take anything on belief. I will take correction when I make mistakes. If it turns out that you are right about the reflected light staying the same (that would imply a perfect reflective surface that doesn't alter the frequency nor absorb too many photons) then I'll admit I'm wrong.

To think that AWG is "proven" is folly. In fact the counter evidence is tremendous and damningly so.

Oh, now you come out with claims that I have monetary motives in stating my opinions! How typical of the nut jobs. No I don't make any money. Have you seen my web site, http://w

Of course I know as most people do that a white surface reflects more heat off of a surface than a black surface does. Dah!

Your experiment is lacking in finesse to reproduce the effect with enough confidence to know for sure that it models reflection off the Earth's surface and through the atmosphere.

Well there is a chance that you might be right about the reflection of the radiation back into space, I'll grant you that. I'll have to study the materials you pointed me to in depth.

"I guess that you think of yourself as being a "skeptical" person with regards to the claims of science."

No not at all. I am a scientist.

It's clear that what Chu has been saying has little relevant science to back it up as it's mostly political nonsense designed to bring in more political control systems under the pretense of the faulty AWG Hypothesis which has now been disproven (see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/24/disproving-the-anthropogenic-global-warming-agw-problem/).

However, it's been calculated that only ~1.5% of the surface of the Earth cities or towns and even if everything in every town and city was painted a perfect reflecting color that's simply not enough to correct the increasing temp of Earth.

Besides your and the others are proceeding on a false assumption that humans have caused global warming and even on the faulty assumption that global warming is a bad thing! It's not. In fact our human civilizations have benefited tremendously from warmer temperatures in the past than it is now. The ice core records from Greenland show that it's been much warmer than it is now for thousands of years about 8,000 years ago. Then during the roman age about ~4,000 years ago through ~2,000 years ago the temperature started deceasing by about 2.5c but they still didn't reach the recent bottom as there was the medieval warm period where it got warmer. It wasn't until ~140 years ago that the temperature of earth reached bottom in what is know as the little ice age. The temp has been climbing since way before man started driving cars and emitting C02 (an essential plant nutrient). See the video here: http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/proofs-against-anthropogenic-global-warming/ . The point is that the Mann hockey stick graph distorts the facts by not looking at the last 10,000 year record and by the use of statistical games and bizarre weirdness in his temperature proxy data selection policy that it's essentially useless except to promote lies that we are doomed.

I'm not a skeptic for skeptics sake. I'm simply not one to take anything on belief. I will take correction when I make mistakes. If it turns out that you are right about the reflected light staying the same (that would imply a perfect reflective surface that doesn't alter the frequency nor absorb too many photons) then I'll admit I'm wrong.

To think that AWG is "proven" is folly. In fact the counter evidence is tremendous and damningly so.

Oh, now you come out with claims that I have monetary motives in stating my opinions! How typical of the nut jobs. No I don't make any money. Have you seen my web site, http://www.pathstoknowledge.net/ which is all about science and debunking the gooey mind poo that gets spit at us all from all directions? Not a single advertisement! No, I'm simply a humble human being who doesn't like stupidity being shoveled at him from government dummies with their agenda of control. I also ask questions and find out the answers.

Objective reality is my guide not belief, not faith, not some hidden agenda. My only agenda is living a healthy and happy life and learning as much about objective reality as possible and to share that knowledge. I work in the computer field doing computer science so yeah I'm not as much a

The not-so-good news is that in a "compromise," the board also voted to require that students "in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations... including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."

Excellent! Science is all about the pursuit of the truth of objective reality. Every assumption needs to be questioned otherwise it's not science but rather it's dogma if you're not allowed to question the science.

Score one for the Discovery Institute.

Utter NONSENSE. These and other anti-science and anti-science-education crowds LOST in Texas: Discovery Institute, Intelligent Designer proponents, Creationists, Religionists, Our-Science-is-Correct-and-we-Don't-Have-to-Prove-It-And-If-You-Ask-Questions-Crowd-You're-Automatically-A-Denier-(anti-science)-Crowd and Delusional of all sorts had a huge loss.

Asking questions leads people to give up their delusions if they get the power of asking questions. Sure some imaginary friend delusionals will use that to attempt to push their religious agenda but in the end what will happen is that the battle ground shifts to critical thinking skills where it belongs!

Sharpen your pencils girls and boys and get ready to educate people who don't know about science, about your field of science, in the ways and means of science, the scientific method and critical thinking skills.

The fostering of asking questions and learning to think that my Roman Catholic parents encouraged in me helped me deprogram their attempts to bring me into their faith. Thank ERG (pardon the expression) for all those science books at home and at school.

Without getting the power of critical thinking anyone is lost in today's world of magical claims, weird fake science, television, government, bogus medical claims, con men of all kinds, parents, friends and family who are constantly attempting to pull you into their delusions.

Every CULTure you interact with has it's own delusions and often those are the very ones that people use to justify their killing of others one way or the other. Do you even know how many different CULTureS you're embedded within? How many? How can you tell? What are the beliefs of your CULTure? How do they blind you?

The Human Belief Engine we call the brain-mind is the culprit not what is in a book and the sooner that people realize that the better. Critical thinking skills are the only path to knowledge devoid of delusions, or at least with minimized delusions, about objective reality.

http://www.pathstoknowledge.net/

http://www.godlessaccident.com/

"According to Peirce's doctrine of fallibilism, the conclusions of science are always tentative. The rationality of the scientific method does not depend on the certainty of its conclusions, but on its self-corrective character: by continued application of the method science can detect and correct its own mistakes, and thus eventually lead to the discovery of truth".

A guiding principle for accepting claims of catastrophic global events, miracles, incredible healing, invisible friends, or _fill_in_the_blank_ is:

"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

Sagan's Principle applies to ALL FIELDS OF SCIENCE as well as ALL wacko claims by non-scientists. To say differently is to assert that any part of science should not be questioned! Asking questions is the fundamental core of science. "Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." - Alfred Korzybski

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