On 9/14/2021 1:07 PM, whodat wrote:
> On 9/14/2021 2:48 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
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>> Well, in a theoretical scenario, a tree that lives for infinity, is an
>> infinite fractal?
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> There is another "problem" this brings into the discussion.
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> Isn't anything invoking an "infinity" in time necessarily true in both
> directions, before now and after now?
Indeed! The great question: Was it created, and lasts for infinity...
Or, was it always there...? This makes my brain want to bleed a bit when
I try to ponder that interesting, and purely theoretical scenario. Humm...
When did a truly infinite, "almighty" being, that was always there...
actually start creating? Wow. Deep shit.
> A tree has a birth date, and to me
> that negates claims of infinite life no matter how long "after now" it
> may live. So AFAIC anything living cannot have an infinite attribute.
True. A tree does have a birth date. That is much easier to reason
about. Once we start discussing a tree that was never created, yet
always was, and will be, forevermore. Well, that makes blood want to
shoot out of my eyes. For some damn reason, for me personally, it hurts
to think about it.
> What precisely is the definition of an infinite existence?
I don't really know. Perhaps Math...? Perhaps, just perhaps, that has
always been there? Damn. Humm...
> The Christian
> God, for example, has no beginning and no end. Something I've not seen
> asked before is the question of whether that Christian God is, or ever
> as been, alive. A big social movement in the 1960's said, "God is dead"
> implying that it had once been alive.
>
> Well there's certainly enough meat to the topic(s) without invoking
> religious artifacts. Apologies for having taken a moment of personal
> amusement.
No problem, no problem at all. Humm... You make me think deep. Well, I
am wondering what you think of the following questions to a theoretical
"God" that was never created, always was, and always will be... Well,
here is my question:
Hey God... Were you ever truly alone? If so, for how long? Ahh, that
brings time into the mix!
;^o Still, this blows my mind.
By the way, thanks for the conversation!
:^D