Shadows of Infinity

He who ?

2009-10-27T04:07:00.000-07:00

On the notion of Afterlife.

2009-10-14T03:40:00.000-07:00

I would dare say that majority of earth's population disbelieve in the existence of a life after our own. Just like most of our ancestors, the common reason seem to be the difficulty of grasping the possibility of a life after our biological reduction to waste materials, and further enhanced by the absence of solid evidence of such a life – no 'returners' to narrate its existence.

So no chance of 'another' life ? Well, examine these theories that feed the possibility.

Nick Bostrom, Oxford professor and philosopher, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, known for his paper 'The Simulation Argument' . The argument postulates the possibility (a rather high one) that we may be living in the likeness of a computer simulation, controlled from another dimensional level,when asked about certain implication of the simulation hypothesis, here is what he had to say : " The last section of the original paper speculated about certain parallels that could be drawn between traditional religious conceptions and our relations to our hypothetical simulators. These simulators would have created our world, they would be able to monitor everything that happens here, and they would be able to intervene in ways that conflict with the simulated default laws of nature. Moreover, they would presumably be superintelligent (in order to be able to create such a simulation in the first place). An afterlife in a different simulation or at a different level of reality after death-in-the-simulation would be a real possibility. It is even conceivable that the simulators might reward or punish their simulated creatures based to how they behave, perhaps according to familiar moral or religious norms (a possibility that gains a little bit of credibility from the possibility that the simulators might be the descendants of earlier humans who recognized these norms). "

In that analogy, death is nothing but a transfer from one simulated existence to another, and we are but characters, downloaded from one existence , ending our presence in it, only to be uploaded to another, to continue the existential progression.

Similarly, The Dream Argument , which eventually leads to the query : How do you distinsguish a dream from reality, as Rene Descartes puts it "there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep", given that in a dream all your senses can be fully engaged, and – thus – how do you know that we are not living a dream, and hence 'waking up ' to a new world at our final eye lid closure ?

To be Continued…..

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Did you know ....

2009-08-06T06:28:00.000-07:00

- That Isaac Newton refused Trinitarianism and was accused of heresy by the orthodox church ?

- That Isaac Newton wrote more about religion than he did about natural sciences?

- That Max Planck the founder of Quantum Physics was an ardent believer in God, and is quoted to have said " Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the ediface of every generalized world view. "

- That Charles Babbage, the father of programmable machines, was also an ardent believer in God, and wrote a treatise named " On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation"

There was once a judge ......

2009-08-05T07:04:00.000-07:00

There was once a judge who was trying a relative of his

And there was striking evidence to convict him

But the judge did not want that

He kept saying "Maybe there is something else"

"Maybe it is someone else"

They are just questions to be answered.

And he kept scrapping alternative scenarios

No matter how improbable

And he never submitted

Although it was the truth,

and the just thing to do .

Admit your limits

2009-08-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

Man cannot do whatever he wants, nor get whatever he desires. He can sure work hard to achieve some of his wants, but there are things that are out of bounds regardless of the vigorousness of his pursuit.

We are governed by factors that many are out of our hands. We are governed by our genetics, upbringing, social, physical and cultural environment, and other unplanned events that we experience through out our lives. Man has to employ what is within his control to utilize it along with its surrounding to the best good, but inevitably there maybe things that are out of reach. And at those times he has to be humble enough to say I can't .

An envious salute

2009-06-28T01:35:00.000-07:00

I recently viewed an interview by Charlie Rose summoning Warren Buffet, Bill and Melinda Gates. I was forced by whatever goodness pulsating in me to salute them, albeit with an envious bitterness.

These are examples of people who are – I percieve– at a nobler rank, giving the money that they sweated their foreheads and stormed their brains for to the welfare of other human beings, trying – to their best – to insure their donation is utilized to the best cause and in the most efficient manner towards the benefit of the disadvantaged.

The enviousness comes from my belief that every penny spent in God's cause is eternalized, and these three have poured so much in a major tributary flowing towards His pleasure. So how much will I compete with ? Probably not as much as them…..

How accomplished are we

2009-06-28T01:16:00.000-07:00

By the age of ………

22, Isaac Newton discovered the generalized binomial theorem

22, Albert Einstein published his first paper in one of the prestigious science journals

16, James Maxwell had his first paper, Oval Curves, presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which he was too young to present, so his tutor stood for him

23, Marck Zuckerberg created and headed Facebook, an online community with over 150 million users, making him the youngest self-made billionaire in history

17, Britney spears released the best selling debut album by a female act in history

22, Thomas Edison filed his first patent for an electric vote recorder

23, Guiglielmo Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over an open sea

20, Denilson, a brazilian football player, was bought by Real Betis club for approximately 20 million dollars

21, Bill Gates started Microsoft

What Did We Accomplish ?

Fairy Tale

2009-06-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

One day we'll live the fairy tale
Fly up the skies with nightingales
Flowing like rivers above the seas
Riding the birds, and diving with whales

Up through the clouds
Between the mounts
Around the globe
In rounds and rounds
This is the day that
You have waited for
At last it's found

One day we'll live the fairy tale
Re-unify with who passed away
From all the beauties take off the veil
Let your self loose on a joyous trail
I realize, we've been long in jail

Ecstasy's flowing in my veins
And it only builds up and it gains
Over is the era of the worldy pains
No more, No more, No More
You are now the Lord
Of these green plains

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Some thoughts regarding Hawking's ideas

2009-03-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

I recently viewed some of Hawking's lectures and I was stopped by two main propositions he puts out…

- The dilemma of what was before the Big Bang started - which is called upon as an evidence for an initiator by believers in God - is dismantled due to the "No time before Big Bang " notion, therefore it is meaningless to ask what comes before. He relates the paradox to the question of what is south of the south pole ?

To me, it does'nt interest me much what was before the big bang, but rather what caused, triggered or prompted the explosion ? It had to be another incidence that exists outside our spacetime frame.

- The second proposition is that he compares the expanding universe, to bubbles in boiling water. Some of these bubbles fail growing to a stable size and collapse down, and some succeed in doing so. In that proposal, Hawkings succeeded – perhaps not deliberately – in putting out another proposal : Many big bangs occur, and very few succeed to being a stable universe; a state which only occurs when these bangs initiate at the correct conditions

To me that is a possibility, but it is just like the one that says that amongst the many, many planets, earth – by chance – had the conditions to survive, and amongst the many, many chemical reactions in the earth's early stages, life – by chance – came to existence. So yes, at least he provided a way in which given belief in extreme improbabilities along with extreme number of chance shots, one can imagine life without intelligent creation. And I believe that convincing people to believe in such extreme improbabilities is the unbelievers best shot, and I believe it is kind of like a quest to try to explain how explosions in a scrap yard - over many years - can lead to the formation of a Boeing 747.

God - Programmer Analogy

2009-03-08T04:37:00.000-07:00

To imagine God's control over this universe, imagine a programmer's control over a computer program, doesn't he control every bit of information that is being processed ? Can't he – using his program – switch it from 1 to 0 or vice versa?

God controls every sub-atomic particle in this existence, he can turn its existence on or off. He can switch any of the physical laws on or off. In doing that he controls all matter and all the laws governing it,

He controls the atoms, molecules, fluids, solids, salt crystals, sand particles, stones, computer chips, apples, goldfish, television, kidneys, rats, humans, elephants, buildings, cars, planes, grass hills, mountains, rivers, clouds, robots, sun's inner core, the milky way, the stars, the supernovae, the entire cosmos.

He holds power over the laws of Newton, conservation of energy, conservation of mass, electromagnetism, nuclear fission and fusions, relativity, thermodynamics, etc…

He holds power in switching what we consider unchangeable rules in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, psychology, astronomy, and other sciences.

I would not believe that any person can break God's laws, yet it fits my logic that He; their imposer – whenever He wills – can.

After all it doesn't matter

2009-03-08T04:31:00.000-07:00

If you had the money of Rockefeller, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the intelligence of Einstein , it won't matter after you die.
If you had the inventions of Edison, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the ladies of Heffner, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the attraction of Presley, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the power of The Hulk, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the beauty of Monroe, it won't matter after you die.
If you had every worldly desire, it won't matter after death.

All worldly experiences will vanish at death,
Both good and bad ones,
Regardless of their magnitudes,
For you-they end.

And the only thing that matters
Is He, and what relates to Him.

Who is He

2009-03-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

He is the author of the story of existence

He is the director of movie of life

He is the artisan behind the scenes of nature

He is the composer of the nature' melodies

He is the computer

He is the programmer

He is the aerospace engineer who designed big birds and flying insects

He is the nuclear engineer who designed the sun

He is the civil engineer who stabilized the continents and designed the 100m tall trees

He is the mechanical engineer who designed all moving organisms

He is the thermal engineer who controls thermal necessities of organic and celestial bodies

He is the electrical engineer who designed our neuronic system

He is the computer scientist who programmed our intelligence

He is the computer engineer of the world's most capable computer; Human brain

He is the physician who created the most vital medicament system, immune system

Quotes from Cosmologists

2009-03-05T05:47:00.001-08:00

If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time,

The explosive vigour of the universe is thus matched with almost unbelievable accuracy to its gravitating power. The big bang was not evidently, any old bang, but an explosion of exquisitely arranged magnitude.

Paul Davies, chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics

In its standard form, the big bang theory assumes that all parts of the universe began expanding simultaneously. But how could all the different parts of the universe synchronize the beginning of their expansion? Who gave the command?

Andre Linde , Dirac medal honoree, and founder of the "inflatory universe" concept.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility."

Einstein

The Vow of the Sincere

2009-03-05T05:24:00.000-08:00

Dear Self,

Vow to seek the Truth all the time.

Vow to never end questioning yourself, your path, your ways.

Vow to maintain an inner creed of "I might be wrong " , and declare it often.

Vow to always ask " How can I be wrong ? , What may be better ? " , and ask it often.

Vow to seek all opposing opinions, one by one, for one may hold the Truth.

Vow to be strong enough to admit your errors, and do it often

Vow to be strong enough to say " I was wrong" , and say it often.

Vow to be strong enough to say "Teach me ", and say it often.

Vow to never give up critiquing yourself till the moment you die.

Vow to change if you see the truth elsewhere, even if one breath is left in life.

Vow to keep your ultimate loyalty to the Truth.

Vow to defy your self, family, society, heritage if they oppose your Truth pursuit.

And if you don't do that, then you are hurting none but your self, and fooling none but your self.