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echo: philos
to: WILLIAM ELLIOT
from: MARK BLOSS
date: 1998-02-26 18:17:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

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>William Elliot wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 >>> Mark Bloss on "Existence Exists" 
 
 WE> I think that we concur, integers have no substance, are imaginary, and
 WE> god partakes of this imaginary substance. 
 MB> Yet, aren't they so good at what they do?
 WE> I'd imagine infinitely so. -)
 
 MB> Yes, infinitely and they are gauranteed to work as advertized, I bet,
 MB> also. 
 WE> Naw, extremely large integers are hard to keep track of.  Usually they
 WE> end up be rounded off such as approximately 10^100 atoms in the
 WE> universe.  Not only that but if you added a million more of atoms to
 WE> the universe, the number of atoms in the universe will remain the
 WE> same, approximately 10^100. 
 WE> Most integers have never been used, named, notated, discussed or even
 WE> individually imagined.  That is most of them have never been imagined,
 WE> are beyond imagination.  Mathematicians imagine that they can imagine
 WE> the whole infinite bunch of integers.  On the other hand, most people
 WE> are content with the few that they know. 
 Well, the attributes of extremely omniscient beings are also hard to keep 
 track of.  Usually they end up being regarded as approximately 10^100 
 attributes of something or anything that could ever exist in the universe.
 Not only that but if you added a million more attributes to a deity, the 
 number will remain the same, approximately the hugest, biggest, 
 extraordinarily largest possible number which is of any use, that there is:
 10^100.  
 
 Most attributes of omniscient beings have never been used, named, notated,
 discussed or even individually imagined.  That is most of them have never
 been imagined, are beyond imagination.  Theologians who are also mathema-
 ticians, and especially those on television, imagine that they can 
 imagine the whole infinite bunch of omniscient being's attributes.  On
 the other hand, most people are content with the few that they know.
 
 So, in conclusion, beyond the obvious point that there is effectually 
 the same number of atoms in the universe as there are attributes of God,
 one can demonstrate, and prove mathematically, that we don't know very
 much about mathematics, or gods, anyway; and 10^100 is a very very,
 extremely huge, enormously large, bigger than can be imagined, symbol
 for something really really big.
 
... Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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