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Metaphysical Puzzles
BEJ

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?


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To: BEJ

This is the kind of stuff that midwits might find convincing.


41 posted on 10/10/2022 10:34:27 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: BEJ

Space curvature:

Suppose you had two very long strings.
You anchored each at anchor points on the equator.

Then you and a friend walked due north — 90° from the equator. You would meet at the north pole.

So two lines perpendicular to the same line, which is what we thought of as parallel, meet, because the earth is sort of spherical.

Now erect 2 lasers, each 90° from a steel bar, both pointing straight up. If the distance between the light beams varies, then you can say space is curved. If they converge it’s curved kinda like a sphere. If they diverge, maybe it’s like a hyperboloid.


42 posted on 10/10/2022 10:34:36 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico. )
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To: Big Red Badger

Does a snake have hips?...................😜


43 posted on 10/10/2022 10:35:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Mad Dawg

It seems to me that even the idea of ‘location’ is limited, human thinking.


44 posted on 10/10/2022 10:36:29 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Does a fish have lips?

5.56mm


45 posted on 10/10/2022 10:36:47 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: BEJ
“If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can’t lift it?”
-George Carlin

-PJ

46 posted on 10/10/2022 10:37:37 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Big Red Badger

Only if it does, in fact, cross the road.


47 posted on 10/10/2022 10:37:41 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: Jolla

What is the speed of heavy?


48 posted on 10/10/2022 10:37:58 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

What is the speed of Bud Light?


49 posted on 10/10/2022 10:40:08 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: SubMareener

When I was a young Marine calibrating PMEL, digital test equipment, multimeters, etc. was just beginning to come into general use.

When calibration required adjusting a display for ‘zero’ I would adjust them for the negative sign to just be flickering on-off-on-off, so I knew the ‘true Zero was in there somewhere.................😎


50 posted on 10/10/2022 10:42:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Larry Lucido

the square root of the distance between your table and the restroom....................


51 posted on 10/10/2022 10:43:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BEJ

A man asks God, “What’s a million dollars to you?”
God says, “A penny.”

Then the man asks God, “What’s a million years to you?”
God says, “A second.”

Then the man asks God, “Can I have a penny?”
And God says, “Sure, just give me a second.”


52 posted on 10/10/2022 10:43:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SubMareener

The operative word is “were”, as in past tense. Ones complement faded out long ago for obvious reasons.


53 posted on 10/10/2022 10:46:54 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: BEJ

Humans do not have a grasp of infinity. We do not have the intelligence to know or to imagine how many dimensions there are in the universe let alone to prove it. We do not have enough intelligence to imagine part of the powers of God.


54 posted on 10/10/2022 10:50:46 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

We can not know the nature of God. Is he infinite? Does the term have any significance when discussing that which creates infinity?


55 posted on 10/10/2022 10:50:54 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Seek refuge in Christ. He is your sword and shield.)
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To: BEJ

Since God transcends the natural universe he also transcends logic and reason. Since the only thing infinite is God, the whole idea of infinity tends to escape logic and reason. Thus, the “can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it” paradox or the seeming paradox of Anselm’s ontological proof of God.


56 posted on 10/10/2022 10:53:15 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: CharlesOConnell
"If God is omnipotent, can He create a weight too heavy for Him to lift?...

... ha, ha, ha. The contradiction is in the limitations of our language, not metaphysics. Our language allows us posit or define things which logically cannot exist. For instance, what would happen if an unstoppable force met an immovable object. Well, if there was an unstoppable force, there could not be an immovable object, although our language can include both in a sentence. Likewise, here, if there were an object too heavy for God to lift, he would not be omnipotent, and vice versa.

57 posted on 10/10/2022 10:59:50 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: BEJ

56 replies and no one has cited Wittgenstein, so I’ll do it:

“Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.”

Sound advice.


58 posted on 10/10/2022 10:59:53 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: headsonpikes

Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.


59 posted on 10/10/2022 11:00:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: headsonpikes

Wait a minute, my post #57 is Wittgenstein/Bertrand Russell.


60 posted on 10/10/2022 11:03:08 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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