12 October 2007

addendum

i feel i would be remiss if i should fail to point out something about my earlier post 'God the incomparable'.

i used the notion of large amounts of $ to illustrate my point as simply as possible. i see now that it was too simplistic and prone to weakness. just because i or you can't comprehend $1 trillion doesn't mean it's incomprehensible. let me further my actual point by saying that even if i was somehow able to live from this point onward to infinity and i did nothing but write numbers down in sequence starting with 0 i still would never reach true infinity... no matter how 'large' my numbers became they would never even approach infinity. comprehend that... certainly harder, but what about an actual being that IS infinite? i dare say you can't. we can discuss, we can lay down logical reasons why such a being exists, (and in fact, must exist in order for any finite thing to have existence.) but we can never begin to comprehend. what can you compare the infinite too? only the finite which is a reduction of the infinite can be lifted as a comparison, so our understanding is necessarily finite and always will be. (ad infinitum. ha ha)

there are some other points, but i think i shall make them later when i can lend my full attentions.

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