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Subject: Comma Author: Damoclese [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01/14/04 3:19pm In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "One question (or two)" on 01/14/04 10:13am > >I know that the past is, and I know what the present >is, but you have not defined "past present." What is >it exactly? I omitted a comma on accident. It should be past, present, not past-present. > >And how is time in a perpetual loop necessitate that >every point in time never exists elsewhere then in our >minds? Points by mathematical definition, don't exist. A point on a circle is simply a point. It wouldn't make much sense to divide the cirlce up into three sections and say "okay, this point is in the lower hemisphere section". All of them are on a circle, and any one point is just as much on the circle as any other. Therefore, if time is circular, it wouldn't make sense to have a past or present or future designation. It gives a linear sense to something that isn't linear. It only appears linear. A line by definition has a start point and an end point so that one can make a distinction as to where that point "is". It's either near the beggining, near the end, or in the middle. A circle has none of these and therefore, has no distinction as past, present or future. It's just a circle, or time. However you wanna think about it. There isn't any good way to divide that which neither has beginning nor end nor middle. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Math stuff. Wade A. Tisthammer 01/16/04 9:52am It's "point"less to discuss it with THEM -- QUITTNER, 01/16/04 11:36am Logic? -- Damoclese, 01/16/04 8:44pm Re: Logic? -- QUITTNER, 01/20/04 11:19am K -- Damoclese, 01/20/04 1:09pm Maybe the messages were not properly reported -- QUITTNER, 01/22/04 1:54pm God spoke to me, but I forgot what he said -- Damoclese, 01/22/04 4:21pm Was it really God? -- QUITTNER, 01/23/04 2:51pm Spirited away. -- Damoclese, 01/24/04 7:30pm Experience is very important -- QUITTNER, 01/27/04 11:52am Wow. -- Ben, 01/27/04 3:43pm Ben is WOWed. -- QUITTNER, 01/29/04 1:37pm uh huh -- Damoclese, 01/16/04 8:42pm More math stuff -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/18/04 2:54pm Less than -- Damoclese, 01/18/04 4:13pm Logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/12/04 10:17am Distinguish between "pure" and "applied" Mathematics -- QUITTNER, 02/27/04 1:22pm Misunderstanding time -- Ben, 01/18/04 5:06pm Understanding time -- QUITTNER, 01/20/04 11:54am Supporting my point -- Ben, 01/20/04 10:05pm Paradox... hm. -- Duane, 02/11/04 9:54am