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“Heaven is a fairy story, there is no afterlife” says eminent Stephen Hawking
Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview. Hawking, 69, was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neurone disease at the age of 21, but became one of the world's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book “A Brief History of Time”. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThere is not heaven for nothing but for computers there is backup systems.
May 17th, 2011 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0What makes human being unique like computers is the data stored.
So we only need to develop a good backup system for our brains and wait until a Chinese factory starts to produce cloned bodies.
May be in the future we will able to develop working technology to store data in living tissue and fluids on great scale.
I just wonder what part of our body will be used to restore the data back... umm
I guess that will hurt so much hah ha ha
Nico, im quite sure that it would be possible to download your entire brain onto a floppy disk.
May 17th, 2011 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0at the article picture there Stephen Hawking seems as if telling fortune
May 17th, 2011 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0for Irish origins who live in Texas !!
What a clever guy, probably the most in all times around the world.
May 17th, 2011 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0His research and propositions have made clear that the human being is not a god´s issue, just nature....
Religions are the people´s opium, as Mr. Marx once said...(and is the only correct thing he have said, BTW)...
Religions have been used just to keep the mass afraid of gods dark will...to enjoy the politic and economic power...
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May 17th, 2011 - 02:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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May 17th, 2011 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“”“ the religion is the gig of womens and mobs !.....”“”
René Desfaire.... a french catholic priest from 17. century !
so Rene was in the wrong business?
May 17th, 2011 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has Hawking or anybody else proved the absence of an 'afterlife'?
May 17th, 2011 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This sounds just an assertion based on the absence of fact - hardly scientific, from this natural philosopher.
I also think we should dissociate the concept of afterlife from the concept of God/god.
There is no scientific evidence of either, so correlation between the two, associations, causalities, etc, are all hypothetical speculations.
So are Hawking's speculations of any grater importance than those of Fodo, Think, Isolde, or my dog?
@zethe
May 18th, 2011 - 05:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Chinese just told me that as revenge of the Opium wars there are planing to use Brit @ss to restore the backups.
And they also told me that in your especial case they have reserved a big port to introduce around 500 terabytes with a bus speed transfer of 0.0001 bits per second.
Your hd will be something like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/IBM_350_RAMAC.jpg
Ha ha ha
:-)))
May 18th, 2011 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 08 @ Don´t forget that all kind of gods have based their rules on a prized heaven or granted hell....for their “good” or “bad” followers, what means a much more important afterlife over the “real known” life which is not important at all....That´s the relationship between gods and afterlife...the one don´t exist without the other...And, of course, what haven´t been proved don´t exist, no matter what people can tell or “be told” ....
May 18th, 2011 - 08:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 05@ Don´t forget that Napoleon was a looser....nothing more who leaded a lot of people to death (friends & enemies) so his words don´t means nothing at all !!!
The human being is born clean as an atheist and stained by religions....!!!!
Maybe the afterlife is just the continuation of our genes through our children?
May 21st, 2011 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know, I don't believe in heaven as an afterlife (@8 maybe I will be pleasantly surprised) but have certainly had some heaven on earth moments in life. : )
Elaine,
May 21st, 2011 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0re. heavenly moments:
Lub, dup . . . lub, dup . . . . .lub
Seriously though, I really like your first assertion.
A self-evident, though rarely expressed, variant on the argument - makes me think more of my children :o)
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