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The Neural Buddhists - New York Times

the genetic and neuroscience revolutions would affect public debate. They would kick off another fundamental argument over whether God exists.

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the militant materialism of some modern scientists.

To these self-confident researchers, the idea that the spirit might exist apart from the body is just ridiculous. Instead, everything arises from atoms. Genes shape temperament. Brain chemicals shape behavior. Assemblies of neurons create consciousness. Free will is an illusion. Human beings are “hard-wired” to do this or that. Religion is an accident.

In this materialist view, people perceive God’s existence because their brains have evolved to confabulate belief systems.
the genetic and neuroscience revolutions would affect public debate. They would kick off another fundamental argument over whether God exists.
The cognitive revolution is not going to end up undermining faith in God, it’s going to end up challenging faith in the Bible.
This new wave of research will not seep into the public realm in the form of militant atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism.
First, the self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships. Second, underneath the patina of different religions, people around the world have common moral intuitions. Third, people are equipped to experience the sacred, to have moments of elevated experience when they transcend boundaries and overflow with love. Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is.
In unexpected ways, science and mysticism are joining hands and reinforcing each other. That’s bound to lead to new movements that emphasize self-transcendence but put little stock in divine law or revelation.
the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate.
The real challenge is going to come from people who feel the existence of the sacred, but who think that particular religions are just cultural artifacts built on top of universal human traits.

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words - Print This Story News Story - WCVB Boston

A Picture Worth A Thousand Words Newspaper Criticized For Publishing Photo Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist

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MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder

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GVC 2008.5 - Freeware Files.com - Audio & Video Category

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Special Health Section - The New York Times

A Guided Tour of Your Body - learn the best that science and medicine can offer for taking care of yourself

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on the outskirts of Anchorage, they decided to build a sturdy, colorful playground for their 3 and 4 year old sons, with smooth-stone gravel all around it to avoid knee scrapes and other injuries. They finished building it on Saturday evening, and the following morning, as mom was about to wake up the boys and have them go out to play in their new play center, this is what she saw from the upstairs window:

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DVDVideoSoft.com: Download FREE DVD, iPod, YouTube video converter and editor software and freeware

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A free-form text, images and objects organizer, with multi-user/network support, incorporating an intuitive system of Keyword Indexing to ensure accurate and fast searching.

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XXCLONE, A New Way of Cloning the Windows System Disk

The simple way to clone a Windows disk. Happens to be a quicker way in daily backup.

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Free Video to MP3 Converter: How to extract audio from video to MP3

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XXCLONE, A New Way of Cloning the Windows System Disk

The simple way to clone a Windows disk. Happens to be a quicker way in daily backup.

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Rad Geek People’s Daily – Politics

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those of us who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation are men who want the crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. … This struggle may be a moral one or a physical one, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. —Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and feminist

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Z Communications

Z Magazine is a radical print and online periodical dedicated to resisting injustice, eliminating repression, and creating liberty. It addresses international relations, ecology, economics, gender, race, culture, politics, etc. 2007 is ZMag's twentieth anniversary year in print and it now also appears online for Z Sustainers.

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The Long Night by Charley Reese

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The only safe environment for a human being is under a weak government with very restricted powers. Normal people don't need much to be happy – food, shelter, dignity and freedom from marauders. They need a rule of law that applies to everyone equally and at all times and in all circumstances.
In our time, when people are saying we must sacrifice liberty for security, that scrapping the Constitution is necessary to win the "war" against terrorism, I would suggest that you take your choice of genocides in the past 100 years and remind yourself what happens when people buy into the false proposition that the end justifies the means. People who preach that are always more interested in the means than in any end.
There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the "greater good."
A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny.
Americans are on the edge of a long night. We had better wake up and step back before it's too late.

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