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Subject: One question (or two) Author: Wade A. Tisthammer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01/14/04 10:13am In reply to: Damoclese 's message, "One ammendment" on 01/12/04 9:27pm >>One criticism against an infinite past is that there >>would have to have been an infinite series of events, >>which would have taken an infinite amount of time to >>complete, and thus we should never have gotten to our >>current point in time. This seems to be similar to >>what you are saying. Is it? >> > >Yes. But I go one step further. In order for time to >be infinite any particular point of time would have to >be infinite as past present and future are all subsets >of this thing called time. Hence, if time is infinite, >which it may well be, it may not be linear at all. It >may be circular instead. Okay... >If that be the case, then every instance of time is in >fact, infinite and past present and future never >really exist except in our minds. I know that the past is, and I know what the present is, but you have not defined "past present." What is it exactly? And how is time in a perpetual loop necessitate that every point in time never exists elsewhere then in our minds? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Comma Damoclese 01/14/04 3:19pm 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