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echo: philos
to: WILLIAM ELLIOT
from: RICHARD MEIC
date: 1998-01-29 17:05:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

Salutatio William!
28-Jan-98, William Elliot wrote to Todd Henson
          Subject: "Existence Exists"
 >>>> Todd Henson on "Existence Exists"
 TH>> The universe, by its nature, is necessarily finite. I explained
 TH>> this to you before with the analogy of the half-infinite line,
 TH>> which you never addressed, and couldn't counter.
 WE> But a half infinite line [0, infinity) is of infinite length.  So
 WE> is the mirror image (-infinity, 0] which could be an universe that
 WE> alway was but comes to an end.  Negative integers a simple
 WE> example: ... -n-1, -n, ... ,-2, -1, 0 while the more accustomed 0,
 WE> 1, 2, ... ,n ,n+1, ... positive integers
Hey, I like that one.  Have you seen my "spagetti noodle with only one 
end" analogy?  |)
                                                                   
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BTW, that razor is sharp enough to cut a fundies beliefs to shreds.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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