12-22-2009, 06:07 PM
(08-11-2009, 12:40 PM)Lavazza Wrote:.(08-04-2009, 06:29 PM)Bring4th_Steve Wrote: But if it never had a start, then how could the first "known thing in the universe" be infinity?
My confusion, exactly! To borrow Sirius's analogy, infinity (for me) as a concept is akin to highly advanced software from the future, written in an alien programming language, which I am attempting to run with my old Apple ][. As much as I try to wrap my mind around it, I will always become lost... Despite my understanding of it's basic concept, I am always halted at the doorway... While within incarnation at least- I'm looking forward to plumbing this and many other fascinating topics when I am again dis-incarnate and am not restricted by laws of confusion or 3rd density veils.
Until then, ignorance is bliss. Now where is my Oregon Trail game?
I agree that it is mind bending and perplexing. Can we look at it this way- when we say first thing known, we are already defining it in terms of time. But if the time does not exist then the question becomes meaningless. Can we say- Infinity IS...