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Subject: And what point would that be?

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Wade A. Tisthammer

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Date Posted: 03/ 5/04 12:03pm
In reply to: Ben 's message, "My point exactly" on 03/ 2/04 7:34am

>>Well, the reason that wouldn't work is that the
>>past, since it is infinite, has no beginning.
>>Shandy was never born, he was always writing. An
>>infinite past can't have a beginning. If it did,
>>(along with other problems) it would never get to the
>>present. (Confer what I said about Shandy being
>>infinitely far behind.)
>
>This is precisely why all of us objected to this from
>the very first post. When taken to its logical
>conclusion, it is clearly a ridiculous idea. You have
>created a world where people don't need to be born...
>they just always exist, which is, ironically, an idea
>you constantly fight against on this board.

No I don't. Take a look at the first premise of the argument please. In the scenario I'm describing, Shandy writes from eternity past, an infinite past and thus was never born nor did he start. What results are absurdities, and that's precisely the point. (Again, see the first premise.)

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