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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The Profile Zanzibar Age. 39 Gender. Female Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him Location Altadena, CA School. Other » More info. The Weather The World The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into: Samarinda Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is. The Phases of the Moon Module CURRENT MOON Writings
Poetry The Tree and the Telephone Pole The Spider I Do Not Know Their Names The Mouse Blindness La Plante The Moon Today I am Young A Night Poem Celestial Wandering Siren of the Sea If I Were a Dragon To the Dreamers Leave the Sky The Honor of the Oyster Return From San Diego War My Study Defeat A Late Summer's Night Of Dragons and Men Erebus The Edge of the World The Race Dragon's Spirit The Snake's Terror Spirit Island Metaphysics Metaphysica Transponderae Metaphysics and the Middaymoon Of Adventures in Foreign Lands The Rogue Wave: The Unedited Version Adventures in the PRC Voyage of Discovery Drinking the Blood of Goats Ticket for a Phantom Bus Os peixes nadam o mar Three Villages Far Away The River Weser Children I Should Have Kidnapped, Part I Let's Get You Out of Those Clothes Radishes Three-Piece-Lawsuit If Underwear Could Speak Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s) Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee. The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration T: Cook a nice dinner W: PARKOUR! Th: Parties, movies, dinners F: Picnics, the Louvre S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR Su: Philosophy, Religion The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006 A Crocodile on the Sandbank Looking Backwards Wild Swans Exodus 1984 Tales of the Alhambra (in progress) Dark Lord of Derkholm Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Lost Years of Merlin Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress) Atlas Shrugged (in progress) Uglies Pretties Specials A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!) The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time From Magma to Tephra (in progress) Lady Chatterley's Lover Harry Potter 7 The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency Introduction to Planetary Volcanism A Child Called "It" Pompeii Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women? Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress) What's So Great About Christianity? Aeolian Geomorphology Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits The City of Ember The People of Sparks Cube Route When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard Bound The Golden Compass Clan of the Cave Bear The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip) The Incredible Shrinking Man Twilight Eclipse New Moon Breaking Dawn Armageddon's Children The Elves of Cintra The Gypsy Morph Animorphs #23: The Pretender Animorphs #25: The Extreme Animorphs #26: The Attack Crucial Conversations A Journey to the Center of the Earth A Great and Terrible Beauty The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Dandelion Wine To Sir, With Love London Calling Watership Down The Invisible Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Host The Hunger Games Catching Fire Shadows and Strongholds The Jungle Book Beatrice and Virgil Infidel Neuromancer The Help Flip Zion Andrews The Unit Princess Quantum Brain The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated Delirium Memento Nora Robopocalypse The Name of the Wind The Terror Sister Tao Te Ching What Paul Meant Lao Tzu and Taoism Libyan Sands Sand and Sandstones Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew The Science of God Calculating God Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill City of Bones Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne Divergent Stranger in a Strange Land The Old Man and the Sea Flowers for Algernon Au Bonheur des Ogres The Martian The Road to Serfdom De La Terre � la Lune (ip) In the Light of What We Know Devil in the White City 2312 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Red Mars How to Be a Good Wife A Mote in God's Eye A Gentleman in Russia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Seneca: Letters from a Stoic | God the Finite Monday. 1.30.12 3:50 pm I have been thinking about infinity again a lot lately. Infinity... it just goes on and on and on forever! I usually think about it as a series of white numbers on a black background which come very close to the viewer and then as we pull away, fade into the vast reaches of empty blackness. Mathematically you can suggest infinity by putting an ellipsis [1, 2, 3...]. Everyone has their own way of dealing with infinity, I guess.
But infinity is a tricky beast, even for mathematicians. Stray infinities can bungle large model calculations. You can stay up half your nights chasing after wandering infinities. You can spend enormous amounts of time crossing out large sections of equations after you find that they go to zero, or trying to flip them over if they go to infinity. And there are the infinity over infinity cases. The infinity over zero. We call these "indeterminant", or "undefined". It seems silly that things in math can be "undefined". We made up math, didn't we? Can't we just "define" them? No, we can't, because math is really just a language that we use to describe the universe, and some things in the universe cannot be defined. These are the universe's way of telling you that you are operating out of your appropriate domain. ;) Naturally thinking about infinity got me thinking about God, and how God is infinite. God isn't even a normal, hometown, countable infinity like aleph zero. God is like taking all of the infinite cardinals and adding them up to make a crazy super infinite cardinal that not only encompasses infinity many times over, but encompasses all possible infinities. Human beings are by definition finite beings. We are finite in space, we are tragically finite in time, and the way in which we are able to perceive the world around is cripplingly finite. Just think about the Universe and how little of it we are actually able to see! Just think about our five senses and our lowly instrumentation and imagine all the other kinds of things that could be out there that we can't even imagine how to detect?? It seems logical then, that God would find us rather frustrating, if God had human emotions. God knows everything at all times and in all places. God understands everything and is everything. We are in one place at a time. We understand very little beyond what we have seen with our own eyes. We know what happens in our time and place, and then when we pass away our memories pass away with us. God has to constantly forgive us for doing things which are, to the all-seeing, blatently stupid and unwise. Every way in which we think about God is merely a projection of a vast infinity into something that we can understand better. We imagine that God looks like a man with robes and a white flowing beard. It is laughable to think that infinity could fit into a man with a white flowing beard. But how are we supposed to imagine God? Is this better ∞? Does God fit into a sideways 8? We each have a frame of reference, and we do our best to project God into it. One can hardly blame we finite beings for doing that. Since God is everything and encompasses all experience, I sometimes wonder if the one thing that God hadn't ever experienced was being finite. After all, it is always very confusing to constrain the differences between Jesus and God (and the Holy Spirit, of course). How can three entities be one God? How can Jesus be the son of God, and also God himself? I think of Jesus as the finite manifestation of God. Since God is all things, he can't exactly make himself completely finite, or the universe would cease to exist. He would have to manifest himself in a finite being. You can't fit all of existence into the body of a man! But how bizarre would it be to go from being Infinity to being a newborn baby? I suppose it would be good that you'd start out that way, because you would have so little awareness that you wouldn't even be aware of what you were missing. You'd have quite a few years to get used the Finite-game before you realized what was going on. I'm sure once Jesus got to an age where he was cognizant that he was the Son of the Lord, it was very weird to go around finitely, interacting with other finite creatures, eating food, seeing only out of two eyes, walking from city to city in a linear fashion instead of simultaneously being all places at once. That must have been very strange. Then, being alone able to grasp the power and knowledge of the Infinite, you would try to pass this information on the people around you. To you it would seem obvious and compelling, but to them it would seem at best cryptic, and at worst false. How frustrating would those finite creatures be! How narrow their minds! How short their sight! Death means nothing to the infinite! A body does not confine the infinite! But of course you could be nothing besides understanding, because you are Understanding itself, and you could be nothing but forgiving, since it was you who created these finite creatures to begin with. I kind of think of dying as becoming one with God, and suddenly becoming aware of everything, in a way that is impossible while we are shackled by our bodies. It wouldn't be like we would "become" a God, or gods, only that we would suddenly be aware of the totality of existence, which would be totally mind-blowing if our ordinary human brain wasn't already dead. Anyway, it's getting late, and my pathetically limited animated corpse requires 9 hours of unconsciousness per day for adequate function. [ ... ] Recommended by 4 Members 8 Comments. heeeheeeheeheeeeee love it. Speaking of mind-crippling, have you read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? » middaymoon on 2012-01-30 06:59:18 nice. i have never thought of infinity before. i only dream if only my money account is infinite. » renaye on 2012-01-30 07:06:13 -nods fervently- » middaymoon on 2012-01-31 01:16:47 Well. Now calculus seems less complicated in comparison, at least. » Unicornasaurus on 2012-01-31 09:47:09 Laughed when I read the description. "But sometimes they always died." » randomjunk on 2012-02-01 12:50:03 I love this. Really. » The-Muffin-Man on 2012-02-01 03:32:18 :) 4321 » dannixfresh on 2012-02-06 04:25:41 I kind of doubt it. He's got work and class, so it's unlikely we could get anything together. Might not even see him that day, since it's a Tuesday, and he usually reserves the weekdays for his other responsibilities. » randomjunk on 2012-02-10 01:38:36
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