{"id":7885,"date":"2015-12-21T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2016-01-20T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T08:04:49","slug":"2016-01-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-01-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, Death, &#038; The World (with a little Happiness thrown in)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>James Hilgendorf<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>January 3, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Hilgendorf (http:\/\/www.jameshilgendorf.org) is a filmmaker, speaker, and the author of ten non-fiction books. He and his wife Elizabeth have been practicing Buddhism for forty-three years with the Soka Gakkai International (http:\/\/www.sgi.org). He will discuss:<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Toynbee &#8211; State of the world. Where are we heading three thousand years from now?<br \/>\nPhysics: The shift from classical to quantum. Holograms. You are the Center.<br \/>\nDeath. Leo Tolstoy, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel.<br \/>\nHappiness: Relative and absolute. Not what you&#8217;d expect. Love of fate. There are no negatives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JamesHilgendorf-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JamesHilgendorf-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JamesHilgendorf-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JamesHilgendorf.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152329889\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/152329889\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-01-03): Life, Death, &amp; The World (with a little Happiness thrown in) &#8211; James Hilgendorf<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hilgendorf January 3, 2016 James Hilgendorf (http:\/\/www.jameshilgendorf.org) is a filmmaker, speaker, and the author of ten non-fiction books. He and his wife Elizabeth have been practicing Buddhism for forty-three years with the Soka Gakkai International (http:\/\/www.sgi.org). He will discuss: Arnold Toynbee &#8211; State of the world. Where are we heading three thousand years from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-01-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life, Death, &#038; The World (with a little Happiness thrown in)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7942,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions\/7942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}