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echo: philos
to: MARK BLOSS
from: RICHARD MEIC
date: 1998-02-23 02:52:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

Salutatio Mark!
22-Feb-98, Mark Bloss wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: "Existence Exists"
 RM>> And THAT, my dear friend, is what I have been saying long ago
 RM>> when I first brought up the thread the first time more then a
 RM>> year ago.  That the BB model is illogical.  If the universe is
 RM>> finite then there should  *:NO:* infinities at all within the
 RM>> universe; no mathematical infinities,  no quantum mechanical
 RM>> infinities, no infinitely divisible properties of matter, and no
 RM>> infinitely circular religious arguments ;) (MAN, I'd  love to
 RM>> live in a universe like that ).
 MB> For infinity to be an attribute of a _finite_ universe is
 MB> logically impossible.  _ANY_ infinity.  
     
That's right.
 MB> That is why God is not a
 MB> subset of the Universe, rather the Universe is a subset of God. ;)
 
Whatever. ;)
 MB>  But _that_ is entirely beside the point, I assure you.  A
 MB> universe _without_ infinities would be totally foreign to us; so
 MB> much so we would not recognize _anything_ existent in it - in fact
 MB> - we wouldn't likely be able to consciously exist ourselves within
 MB> the boundries of such a thing - should it have any - that is...
 MB>     
 
I agree, really.  I looks like you started out disagreeing with me and 
ended up saying exactly what I have been all along.  
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca) 
Richard Meic
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