Infinity, God, and the MONAD

[plornive]

Why isnt it correct? Yes, Im refering to limits.

I think she was just saying that 1/infinity is not a real value and thus not equal to 0, while the limit of 1/x as x approaches infinity is equal to 0.

 

[posthuman]

Re: Re: Re: Infinity, God, and the MONAD

Another misuse of the word 'God'. Was Einstein speaking of a conscious being, or a pantheistic 'God'?

Plornive is right.


It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.
-- Albert Einstein

 

[Baby Gorilla]

Uh....

....As long as there is substance, you can repeat this process over and over again. Do this an infinite number of times and you will achieve a "particle" that is infinitely small - the monad....

Trivial idea.

They already are down to strings in quantum mechanics. The best visualization is that they are like rubber bands that vibrate. They are the smallest thing yet understood and are not believed to be divisible.

No substance. They are just harmonic vibrations. Essentially, everything is made up of nothing.

Take an asprin or 12 and have a lie down while your brain stops bleeding from the effort of figuring that one out.

 

[40butpumpin]

Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge
How unsearchable for to Him and through Him and from Him are all things

So let us worship before the throne
Of the One who is worthy of worship alone

God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God

Great IS the Lord

-SCC

 

[plornive]

Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge
How unsearchable for to Him and through Him and from Him are all things

So let us worship before the throne
Of the One who is worthy of worship alone

God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God

Great IS the Lord

-SCC

You have faith that beyond your realm of understanding, there exists this thing you call 'God', an all powerful, omnipotent, conscious being. That in itself is quite poetic. I'm really not being sarcastic.

 

[plornive]

If you think infinitely small particles can be linked to 'God', look at my old post and tell me what you think. http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=231924

 

[the nature boy]

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God."

 

[plornive]

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God."

plornive's modified cliche... "There are no atheists in foxholes, but when the shit hits the fan you better cut the bullshit and face reality"

 

[40butpumpin]

You have faith that beyond your realm of understanding, there exists this thing you call 'God', an all powerful, omnipotent, conscious being. That in itself is quite poetic. I'm really not being sarcastic.

Love, Compassion, Truth, Forgiveness and Grace. That is the only way I know to describe God.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

True belief, however, comes only by Faith, and Faith cannot be defined my logic.

The bottom line is if you call on Him and mean it, he'll be there. No ifs, ands or buts.

It's as simple, or hard, as that, brother.

Poetic, maybe. Hope, Peace, Life, definitely.

 

[Lift Chief]

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God."

Great quote right there... fantastic.