I want to write a book

[Mike_Yates]

About death and especially my atheistic views on what happens to us after we die, absolutely nothing!

It will include tons of medical and scientific information provided by scientists and medical professionals.

Maybe I book will become a best seller and I will make millions of dollars!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Start with your purple crayon...

 

[Mike_Yates]

The image below depicts what we see after we die.

http://www.layoutlocator.com/limages/92779963f27e3856db61c4dcce8fb4da_medium.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's the worms' view.



Now do the buzzard.

 

[Mike_Yates]

When we die, we simply cease to exist, for eternity!

Can you conceptualize the state that you were in before you were born, that infinite void of nothing? That is exactly what we return to after death.

There are no angels, no demons, no god, no devil, no heaven or hell, just nothing!

For me, I want death to come sudden and completely unexpected, not in an accident, but rather a heart attack, stroke, or aneurism. I don't want to spend months or even years in incomprehensible terror and anxiety knowing that I will soon die.

Won't know what hit me!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How do you know?



You been there and back?

 

[Mike_Yates]

How do you know?



You been there and back?

I am absolutely certain of this because consciousness and all human cognitive functions are governed by the brain. After brain death, you are simply gone forever!

You are nothing more than a biological machine. NOTHING supernatural occurs after we die.

Literotican "Warrior Queen" stated in a thread that she had died and was revived my medical personnel. She did not recall anything spiritual or supernatural, other than it was just like "being asleep".

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Then, you have no proof...



If you have no proof, you cannot proceed in an a priori fashion.

 

[ivantheterrible]

you'll actually have to focus long enough to write it, organize it, and put it together first.

 

[Mike_Yates]

you'll actually have to focus long enough to write it, organize it, and put it together first.

I will CRUSH religion and theology!

CRUSH!

 

[MNGuy]

About death and especially my atheistic views on what happens to us after we die, absolutely nothing!

It will include tons of medical and scientific information provided by scientists and medical professionals.

Maybe I book will become a best seller and I will make millions of dollars!

Do you know how to cite sources?

Basics

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For dates, spell out the names of months in the text of your paper, but abbreviate them in the list of works cited, except for May, June, and July. Use either the day-month-year style (22 July 1999) or the month-day-year style (July 22, 1999) and be consistent. With the month-day-year style, be sure to add a comma after the year unless another punctuation mark goes there.

Underlining or Italics?

When reports were written on typewriters, the names of publications were underlined because most typewriters had no way to print italics. If you write a bibliography by hand, you should still underline the names of publications. But, if you use a computer, then publication names should be in italics as they are below. Always check with your instructor regarding their preference of using italics or underlining. Our examples use italics.
Hanging Indentation

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Format Examples

Books

Format:
Author's last name, first name. Book title. Additional information. City of publication: Publishing company, publication date.

Examples

Allen, Thomas

B. Vanishing Wildlife of North America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1974.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of the Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Random, 1992.

Hall, Donald, ed. The Oxford Book of American Literacy Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1981.

Searles, Baird, and Martin Last. A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1979.

Toomer, Jean. Cane. Ed. Darwin T. Turner. New York: Norton, 1988.

Encyclopedia & Dictionary
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"Azimuthal Equidistant Projection." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.

Pettingill, Olin Sewall, Jr. "Falcon and Falconry." World Book Encyclopedia. 1980.

Tobias, Richard. "Thurber, James." Encyclopedia Americana. 1991 ed.​

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Hall, Trish

. "IQ Scores Are Up, and Psychologists Wonder Why." New York Times 24 Feb. 1998, late ed.: F1+.

Kalette, Denise. "California Town Counts Down to Big Quake." USA Today 9 21 July 1986: sec. A: 1.

Kanfer, Stefan. "Heard Any Good Books Lately?" Time 113 21 July 1986: 71-72.

Trillin, Calvin. "Culture Shopping." New Yorker 15 Feb. 1993: 48-51​

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Website or Webpage

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Author's last name, first name (if available). "Title of work within a project or database." Title of site, project, or database. Editor (if available). Electronic publication information (Date of publication or of the latest update, and name of any sponsoring institution or organization). Date of access and <full URL>.

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Examples:

Devitt, Terry. "Lightning injures four at music festival." The Why? Files. 2 Aug. 2001. 23 Jan. 2002 <http://

whyfiles.org/137lightning/index.html>.

Dove, Rita. "Lady Freedom among Us." The Electronic Text Center. Ed. David Seaman. 1998. Alderman Lib., U of Virginia. 19 June 1998 <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/afam.html>.

Lancashire, Ian. Homepage. 28 Mar. 2002. 15 May 2002 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/>.

Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas." Newsweek 27 May 2002. 10 June 2002 <http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp>.


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[RodenAddison]

I will CRUSH religion and theology!

CRUSH!

It never ceases to amaze me how people who don't believe in God will spend so much time fighting him. Not sure what the value of explaining 'nothing' (first post) would be.

 

[Liar]

Stop stalking c-list celebs and you might have the time.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I want to write a book
About death and especially my atheistic views on what happens to us after we die, absolutely nothing!

It will include tons of medical and scientific information provided by scientists and medical professionals.

Maybe I book will become a best seller and I will make millions of dollars!

Even with the contributions of your medical experts, how many pages do you think you can write about "absolutely nothing"?

The image below depicts what we see after we die.

http://www.layoutlocator.com/limages/92779963f27e3856db61c4dcce8fb4da_medium.jpg

^^^This is also why I wouldn't pin your hopes on reaping a big bonanza from the movie and TV rights.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Even with the contributions of your medical experts, how many pages do you think you can write about "absolutely nothing"?



^^^This is also why I wouldn't pin your hopes on reaping a big bonanza from the movie and TV rights.

I want to use science to debunk and disclaim spiritual and theological beliefs about what happens to us after we die.

This is a book about atheism.

 

[atmas]

I want to use science to debunk and disclaim spiritual and theological beliefs about what happens to us after we die.

You could try to do that, but Amit Goswami has beaten you to it. He is a theoretical quantum physicist and has taken principles of quantum mechanics to compellingly argue that the fundamental basis of the universe is not matter, materialsm such as atoms, but what he calls idealistic monism, which trades on the fact that atoms are not the building blocks of matter, but much smaller particles, which behave more like energy, are. Consciousness, in observing a quantum particle, carries that particle through the wave-particle duality and sets that which was in an infinite number of places with an infinite number of trajectories, to one place, or one trajectory.
This is exactly like what Kierkegaard was proposing by his leap of faith: when God became man in the form of Christ, He went from infinite and unbounded to decidedly finite. Kierkegaard suggested that this is something we cannot fully grasp, a bounded infinity (Riemann sums had not yet been posited) and as such suggested taking an intellectual/spiritual leap

 

[Mike_Yates]

You could try to do that, but Amit Goswami has beaten you to it. He is a theoretical quantum physicist and has taken principles of quantum mechanics to compellingly argue that the fundamental basis of the universe is not matter, materialsm such as atoms, but what he calls idealistic monism, which trades on the fact that atoms are not the building blocks of matter, but much smaller particles, which behave more like energy, are. Consciousness, in observing a quantum particle, carries that particle through the wave-particle duality and sets that which was in an infinite number of places with an infinite number of trajectories, to one place, or one trajectory.
This is exactly like what Kierkegaard was proposing by his leap of faith: when God became man in the form of Christ, He went from infinite and unbounded to decidedly finite. Kierkegaard suggested that this is something we cannot fully grasp, a bounded infinity (Riemann sums had not yet been posited) and as such suggested taking an intellectual/spiritual leap

Neuroscience dictates that consciousness requires a brain and that all human cognitive functions are extinguished upon brain death. Meaning that the "afterlife" is utterly impossible. Any scientist who claims otherwise with some bullshit pseudoscientific theory is scorned and laughed at by the scientific community

I believe that monistic materialism is the only reality that exists.

Off-topic, but could you please reword what I quoted in layman terms?

 

[ChinaBandit]

We hit the "jackpot" by just being born.

I am not expecting that anything, or anyone, will be able to wake me come dirt nap time.

Since there is nothing you can do, why worry...Why read a boring book about it either. I don't see "bestseller" in your future.

 

[warrior queen]

You cited me!
I'm flattered.
But you shouldn't take me seriously - after all, I'm a Jew, whose parents forced me into Catholicism, who was subsequently abused by my Priest, and who is now an Agnostic with a Muslim stepmother.

 

[Mike_Yates]

You cited me!
I'm flattered.
But you shouldn't take me seriously - after all, I'm a Jew, whose parents forced me into Catholicism, who was subsequently abused by my Priest, and who is now an Agnostic with a Muslim stepmother.

You said that you died for several minutes and paramedics revived you?

You experienced nothing during this time integral where your heart was stopped?

 

[warrior queen]

You said that you died for several minutes and paramedics revived you?

You experienced nothing during this time integral where your heart was stopped?

So what?
My experience may be complely different to somone elses.
In the end, it's PERSONAL experience that counts.

 

[Mike_Yates]

So what?
My experience may be complely different to somone elses.
In the end, it's PERSONAL experience that counts.

Could you elaborate further about when you died?