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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 04:23 pm |
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The book, Life After Death: The Evidence isn't based on the afterlife or sacred texts. The author, Dinesh D'Souza, uses theory to give credence to the often challenged belief that there is life after death. Souza uses his book to show how life after death can give significance to the life before death with a reason for hope.
Author Dinesh D'Souza is not new to publishing controversial books. His book, Life After Death: The Evidence is one in a long line of book that have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. In 2002 he published the New York Times bestseller What's So Great About America (Penguin Books) and in 1991 his book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's.
Dinesh D'Souza believes that the majority of us are consumed with wondering what will happen to us after death. He also believes that even skeptics need to be convinced about life after death.
In a recent article in Newsweek about Life After Death: The Evidence, columnist Jerry Adler writes:
D'Souza doesn't claim to have communicated with anyone who has died, and he doesn't expect to. Instead, he looks to the human heart, and finds therein a universal moral code underlying acts of self-sacrifice and charity that appear to run counter to the Darwinian imperative to outcompete thy neighbor. This is a time-honored argument for the existence of a God who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.
After-life studies have not been a big field of study until recently. A group started a study by the name of AWARE (Awareness during REsuscitation) was launched by the Human Consciousness Project and is led by Dr. Sam Parnia, a world-renowned expert on the study of the human mind and consciousness during clinical death.
During the AWARE study, physicians will also be testing the validity of out of body experiences and claims of being able to see and hear during cardiac arrest through the use of randomly generated hidden images that are not visible unless viewed from specific vantage points above.
Dr. Sam Parnia, director of AWARE, told NEWSWEEK that researchers at 20 hospitals have identified about 600 subjects for interviews. Parnia expects to publish his results in 2010. This should be an interesting study to read, along with the thoughts of Dinesh D'Souza in his new book, Life After Death: The Evidence.
What we don't know or don't believe about the after-life is up for conversation and more intense study. There will be many who cannot be convinced of an after-life and some who believe in it. Dinesh D'Souza write a convincing argument about life after death. In his book he provides a checklist of benefits from believing in life after death: it keeps us honest, gives our lives "a sense of hope and purpose"—and "surveys show" that believers have better sex. It provides "a mechanism to teach our children right from wrong"—a mechanism that those who have been subjected to it tend to describe as a neurotic lifelong fear of going to Hell.
Life After Death: The Evidence is available on Amazon.com
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 04:47 pm |
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beejmi wrote:
D'Souza doesn't claim to have communicated with anyone who has died, and he doesn't expect to. Instead, he looks to the human heart, and finds therein a universal moral code underlying acts of self-sacrifice and charity that appear to run counter to the Darwinian imperative to outcompete thy neighbor. This is a time-honored argument for the existence of a God who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.
This couldn't possibly have less to do with life after death. Anyway it's a silly topic because you can never prove or disprove it one way or the other and if he's going to try to take a religious/moral tact, as it seems, instead of a scientific approach then the book isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I've already heard lots of interviews with people who have been clinically dead for periods of time and they're very interesting, but there's nothing more to add to this subject.
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 04:58 pm |
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beejmi wrote: What we don't know or don't believe about the after-life is up for conversation and more intense study. There will be many who cannot be convinced of an after-life and some who believe in it. Dinesh D'Souza write a convincing argument about life after death. In his book he provides a checklist of benefits from believing in life after death: it keeps us honest, gives our lives "a sense of hope and purpose"—and "surveys show" that believers have better sex. It provides "a mechanism to teach our children right from wrong"—a mechanism that those who have been subjected to it tend to describe as a neurotic lifelong fear of going to Hell.
Life After Death: The Evidence is available on Amazon.com
But if you buy the book and become a believer, you will feel better about yourself and even have better sex. It always ends up in the gutter.
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 05:28 pm |
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And that's why the chick screams "Oh my God". Not sure what atheist chicks scream. Probably that boring "fuck me fuck me" thing. zzzzzzzzzzzz
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 07:20 pm |
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pjstef wrote: beejmi wrote: What we don't know or don't believe about the after-life is up for conversation and more intense study. There will be many who cannot be convinced of an after-life and some who believe in it. Dinesh D'Souza write a convincing argument about life after death. In his book he provides a checklist of benefits from believing in life after death: it keeps us honest, gives our lives "a sense of hope and purpose"—and "surveys show" that believers have better sex. It provides "a mechanism to teach our children right from wrong"—a mechanism that those who have been subjected to it tend to describe as a neurotic lifelong fear of going to Hell.
Life After Death: The Evidence is available on Amazon.com
But if you buy the book and become a believer, you will feel better about yourself and even have better sex. It always ends up in the gutter.
Of course believers have better sex, they never use condoms. Duh.
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 07:27 pm |
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This is the same douchebag that wrote The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, which claimed the real reason al-Qaeda hated us was because of the lewd images on American TV broadcasting and because our culture was too lascivious. Yes, this guy's essential solution was, "Be more like the terrorists."
Afterlife or no afterlife, this dude is a pseudointellectual jackass. Oh, and did I mention he's fucked Ann Coulter?
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 07:58 pm |
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PeteF3 wrote: This is the same douchebag that wrote The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, which claimed the real reason al-Qaeda hated us was because of the lewd images on American TV broadcasting and because our culture was too lascivious. Yes, this guy's essential solution was, "Be more like the terrorists."
Afterlife or no afterlife, this dude is a pseudointellectual jackass. Oh, and did I mention he's fucked Ann Coulter?
OK, well this explains a lot. That short synopsis had some tell-tale signs and the title having the word "Evidence" in it reeked of sensationalist right-wing Christian propoganda, but I wasn't sure. So you can forget about a scientific examination of facts.
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Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 11:34 pm |
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rossi, do you believe in the afterlife in any form?
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PeteF3 wrote: This is the same douchebag that wrote The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, which claimed the real reason al-Qaeda hated us was because of the lewd images on American TV broadcasting and because our culture was too lascivious. Yes, this guy's essential solution was, "Be more like the terrorists."
Afterlife or no afterlife, this dude is a pseudointellectual jackass. Oh, and did I mention he's fucked Ann Coulter?
I concur.
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Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2009 03:05 am |
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khawk wrote: rossi, do you believe in the afterlife in any form?
I'm open to the idea and think it's likely, but not in the heaven and hell Rapture floating in the clouds sort ofway that 5 year olds and Christians believe in.
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