Stephen Hawking: ‘Heaven is a place for people afraid to die”

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I love science. However, I do believe that science is meant to hold hands with faith and the two ought in my opinion be like dear friends. Popping off against one or the other just seems wrong to me. Love this post though Shaun. ~ Eric

Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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My previous articles discuss how we can change our own brains (as God intends) to improve on being compassionate loving men and women.

I myself fix my sights on being loving right here;
but I am sure there is a place called Heaven for those that believe.

Here are a couple of guys that say there is an afterlife and heaven is real:

• afterlife — part one: Colton Burpo
• afterlife — part two: Dr. Eben Alexander
  for them it is real…

Stephen Hawking, eminent physicist says: no god; nor is there fate; no heaven. He is stating an opinion for effect – for press time. He is misusing his position to stir up controversy. Here is an article based on real facts of science that proves that science cannot support even one of Hawking’s claims…

How the Universe Works (in 25 minutes) 

Science looks into the possibility of an afterlife; perhaps mostly because knowing about an afterlife is compelling for some of us. Also, how our universe works is important for many areas of scientific inquiry. How does scientific research occur? Scientific research begins with someone that has empirical evidence and a theory… often, theories lead to finding of more facts… new discoveries bring about new theories. It’s a process. Meantime, evidence is amassing that supports that reality depends greatly upon observations.

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When it comes right down to it, science can’t so far even prove that you and I are “real” in some sense of the definition. There are many competing theories that explore what is real. However, if a person really wants to grow in happiness, it makes good sense to follow high moral and ethical standards and to invest plenty of time in developing of higher awareness (spiritual growth), intuitively knowing that this is best.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

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Gadgets my son wants… Anki Drive

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Remember Those Crazy Toy Cars at WWDC?
They’re Called Anki Drive and They Go On Sale October 23

Anki’s eclectic experiment, dubbed Anki Drive, resembles a slot cars game — one that happens to conceal advanced robotics wizardry.

By Matt Peckham@mattpeckham Oct. 17, 2013

I’d almost forgotten about them: a crew of colorful toy cars you drop on a stylish track-etched mat, then watch as they scoot around on their own, intelligently weaving and shifting, angling for better positioning, smartly avoiding each other while acing red-lined curves at breakneck (for a bunch of toy cars, anyway) speeds.

They’re from a company called Anki, not to be confused with Ankh, which is  an Egyptian hieroglyphic character used in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, a 1980s-era computer roleplaying game.

But there’s your hook: Anki’s eclectic experiment, dubbed Anki Drive, resembles a slot cars game — one that happens to conceal advanced robotics  wizardry. You might not get that, watching a bunch of Hot Wheels-wannabes scoot around a track, sometimes manipulated by humans standing nearby with phones or tablets. Haven’t we had remote control race cars for decades? Aren’t we now piloting drones that can hover way, way up in the sky — drones capable of guiding people around like Halo‘s 343 Guilty Spark?  What’s the big deal about a handful of plasticky race cars?

Artificial intelligence, says Anki, that’s what’s different:

Like the slot cars you grew up with, you can hold Anki Drive cars in your hand. But each car has advanced artificial intelligence and robotics built in that gives it unique personality traits and characteristics that evolve the more you play.

Similar to a video game, your character evolves over time. You get to upgrade with new weapons, you can play offensively or defensively, and the cars even react to each other. So if you blast your pulse carbine towards the car in front of you, his car will actually spin out.

The cars can be controlled using an iOS device, letting you keep tabs on a  car’s performance and fiddle with metrics like positioning, speed, weaponry and so forth. The cars can even engage in virtual Cars Wars-style battles, sort of like laser tag only the lasers are radio frequency signals conveyed via  Bluetooth.

Anki says they’ll be available in the Apple Store in the U.S. and Canada as well as from Anki.com starting  October 23; $199 gets you the starter set — two cars and the track — and additional cars can be purchased for $69 a piece.

My colleague Harry McCracken sat down with Anki Drive’s creators this summer. Give that a read if you have a few minutes, because while it’d be easy to mistake Anki for a  novelty toy company (especially given how much more sophisticated and expansive  video game racers can be than this), Anki is really a robotics and artificial  intelligence enterprise. Those cars are canny little robots, not rote toys, and  what you’re looking at isn’t just the advent of some multi-stage effort to reconquer slot racing, it’s the vanguard of future artificially intelligent devices capable of doing exponentially more than resting passively in our hands and pockets.

Thanks for visiting,

 Eric

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