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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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1 posted on 10/10/2022 9:11:35 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: BEJ

If a FReeper posts a stupid vanity will anybody actually read it?............................


2 posted on 10/10/2022 9:12:47 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

You may like Scott Adam’s God’s Debris


3 posted on 10/10/2022 9:16:12 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Red Badger

Only an idiot would click and post on such a thread.


4 posted on 10/10/2022 9:16:13 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: Ken H

GUILTY..................... 😜


5 posted on 10/10/2022 9:16:55 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

Is there a negative zero?

Yes. In ones-complement binary arithmetic all zeros represent positive zero and all ones represents negative zero. Most computers, today, use twos-complements arithmetic where all zeros represents zero and all ones represents minus one.


6 posted on 10/10/2022 9:19:03 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: BEJ

If God is omnipotent, can He create a weight too heavy for Him to lift?

It’s nonsense. He doesn’t do nonsense.

Plato had a dim idea of the Forms, even though He didn’t know that they are formed by a Former, an Almighty.

God pronounces, some say He sings something, completely new.

He pronounces with performance speech.

He says it, it becomes reality.

You and I have opinions. How nice.

God’s “opinion” is Reality.

What a concept.


7 posted on 10/10/2022 9:19:49 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: BEJ

What is twice as cold as zero degrees?


8 posted on 10/10/2022 9:24:41 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: CharlesOConnell

8 year old kid in Sunday School:

After it quit raining in Noah’s flood, where did all the water go?...................


9 posted on 10/10/2022 9:25:22 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
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

I say....no. What is sound? Until the sound waves are detected by an ear human or otherwise) or some other auditory device, it is just a mass of air molecules moving through space. No ear...no sound. Only moving air.

10 posted on 10/10/2022 9:27:37 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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1 = 1
= 1 * 1
= 1 ^ 2
= sqrt( (1) ^ 2)
= sqrt(1) * sqrt(1)
= sqrt( (-1) ^ 2)
= sqrt( (-1)) * sqrt((-1))
= i * i
= i ^ 2
= -1

So 1 = -1


11 posted on 10/10/2022 9:31:40 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: BEJ

Have they solved the one about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, yet?


12 posted on 10/10/2022 9:32:24 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Red Badger

It’s actually kind of interesting, when you start thinking about it.

I believe God is infinite in every way, or rather, infinite period - He not only knows Himself, but is always growing and expressing new things. (The idea that He couldn’t know Himself, or that His mind is anything like ours, is anthropomorphic thinking.)

Everything in the Universe is proof of His unending creativity and expansion.


13 posted on 10/10/2022 9:35:10 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BEJ

Eternity is outside of time. It is different from in infinite amount of time.


14 posted on 10/10/2022 9:35:25 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: BEJ

With God all things are possible.

Relatively recently Science has awoken to the fact that interstellar space is full of dust, so how much red-shift does that add? Plus how much mass would it take to bend light full circle?


15 posted on 10/10/2022 9:37:44 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Jamestown1630
Most of the classical proofs for the existence of God imply an unchanging God who is perfect from the start and in no need of "growing".

The folks that believe in a "growing" God tend to believe in progressive theology which implies, among other nonsensical things, that the God of the Old Testament didn't know that gay was OK, but since then has figured out that gay is absolutely fabulous.

16 posted on 10/10/2022 9:37:47 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: BEJ

Wasn’t it Hegel who thought God was a perpetually self-contemplating being, and that the universe was the result of God trying to see who He was? Nothing good has ever come out of Hegel (Marx, Engels, and Lenin, among others)


17 posted on 10/10/2022 9:38:52 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Karma_Sherab
God's Debris was an interesting read.
18 posted on 10/10/2022 9:39:29 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I disagree.


19 posted on 10/10/2022 9:40:23 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Isaiah 43:16-21 New International Version

16 This is what the Lord says—
he who made a way through the sea,
a path through the mighty waters,

17 who drew out the chariots and horses,
the army and reinforcements together,
and they lay there, never to rise again,
extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:

18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.

20 The wild animals honor me,
the jackals and the owls,
because I provide water in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,

21 the people I formed for myself
that they may proclaim my praise.


20 posted on 10/10/2022 9:42:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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