Posted on 10/10/2022 9:11:35 AM PDT by BEJ
Can God totally know himself? If God is infinite it would take an eternity for him to know himself. You can only know something completely if it is finite or bounded.
How does space curve? I thought you go through space rather than with space.
Is there a negative zero?
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Isaiah 65:17
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Nah, we've moved on to how many transistors can switch on the head of a pin...
Summa Theologiae (Proma Pars Q. 7)
Article 1. Whether God is infinite?
Article 2. Whether anything but God can be essentially infinite?
Article 3. Whether an actually infinite magnitude can exist?
Article 4. Whether an infinite multitude can exist?
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1007.htm
Rinpoche asked that, so I demonstrated the sound of one hand clapping. I slapped him.
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Minus one is 11111111 (One byte)
add one: 00000001
result: 00000000, with the carry bit set in the status register
Now take zero 00000000
subrtact one 00000001
result: 11111111 (minus one), with the carry bit set in the status register
Carry bit set after a subtraction, you ask? Yes. Two's complement subtraction is done by complementing the bits and adding, and then adding another one.
Of course we do. How else can a friendly conversation start? Or even an unfriendly for that matter?
God resides in dimensions other than the ones we are stuck with.
Shift to the Kelvin scale and ask again.
It clearly went to Antarctica and Greenland, right?
As the Father of Digital Submarine Combat Systems based on the ones-complement AN/UYK-7 computer I can tell you that there were computers with negative zeros. They worked quite well, except for the lack of a parity bit.
I’m still trying to figure out how he had two of every animal and managed to feed them all...that’s a whole lot of supply and husbandry on a ‘boat’. I can’t imagine how big it would have to be...
Ah, but that is a slap and not a clap.
Yes.
It’s a question of location v extension.
Angels, having no bodies, take up no space. But they have location.
So as many as there are points on the pinhead.
In Scholastic thought:
Eternity doesn’t have extension. It’s timeless. God is eternal. It doesn’t take him any time at all to know himself.
It must have been the correct answer. He said my education at that monastery was complete (maybe a better translation is done?)
Does a Chicken have lips?
See!
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