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To: VadeRetro; King Prout; Alamo-Girl; marron
I can produce similar text with a bit too much alcohol in my system.

Jeepers, VR, I'd love to see you try!!! May I suggest 2-3 shots of Jack Daniels just to grease the wheels, and then have a go at it??? :^)

Then if you feel like it, we can discuss. :^)

Thanks for writing, VR!

246 posted on 08/15/2005 4:14:50 PM PDT by betty boop (Nature loves to hide. -- Heraclitus)
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To: betty boop
How about I critique Grandpierre's version?

Life lives at the frontier between the realms of Finite Existence and Infinity.

Mostly true, but there is a thin red line between Finite Existence, Finite Nonexistence, Infinity, and Just-Really-Really-Super-Bigness. More importantly, there are no guard posts at the frontier, as smuggling has not be defined in this context.

Non-Existence is filled with all potential possibilities, and all potential possibilities at all levels of existence form together an infinite realm that is called Infinity.

We must note, however, that while some possibilities are potential, some are only potentially potential. Some others could eventually with a few steroid shots and some dietary supplements someday become potentially potential possibilities.

Infinity is the infinite chain of all potential possibilities in their chain reactions driven by a creative agent.

Chain reactions are cool and creative agents can "cause" them in a way, but creative agents just set up initial conditions. Mostly, we refine the U-235 and blast subcritical masses together in just the right way.

It must also be noted that Infinity can contain real possibilities which jostle the potential possibilities and the merely potentially potential possibilities all over the place. Hiding in all this somewhere are my missing socks.

At each link in this chain a generative agent recreates the potential possibilities towards a complete coverage of all possible possibilities, driving them towards infinite fertility.

I was going to talk about the chain. I also seem to have left out the possible possibilities versus the potential and potentially potential ones. Hmmm.

I've been doing this sober up to now but I'm going for the wine even as I type. OK, not as I type, but I'm about to get up.

In comparison, Existence is but a small morsel, a string of beads on the thread of Infinity.

Existence is finite. Finite is pretty drab stuff. Finite is being promised the Super Bowl and getting your neighbor's kid's Peewee League game. Existence has its limits, at least so far. Existence takes time, and who has time for that?

The realm of the Finite cannot exist without the realm of Infinity, since the Finite can change only by its connection with Infinity, and it can maintain itself only by continuously changing.

I didn't want to get into change here. I never have enough change.

The Finite is a subset of Infinity, specifically a finite subset. I have to differ with Grandpierre (Big Rock?) on the mutability of sets, as I think the smaller the set the smaller the restance to change. Less mass, as it were. I would not expect Infinity can change at all, so attachment to Infinity can only slow you down unless it's an Infiniti.

249 posted on 08/15/2005 4:41:46 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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