RE: Actual Infinities
November 5, 2015 at 2:59 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2015 at 2:59 am by Reforged.
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(October 28, 2015 at 1:23 am)Nestor Wrote: A popular claim made in conjunction with the Kalam argument for God's existence is something like the following: past time cannot terminate in an infinite regress because it would take an infinite amount of time to arrive at the present moment, and one cannot reach the end - which would be the present - of an actual infinity. It's often stated that only potential infinities can exist - that is, a future continuance of time which never ceases - but not actual infinities. Is there any validity to this latter assertion? If so, how can an omniscient being, with actual infinite knowledge of the potentially infinite future, avoid the very same predicament imposed by actual infinities?
The symbol for infinity is oroboros; a snake eating its own tail. So what if time went in a loop?
Example; the end of the universe creates another big bang exactly like the one that started the universe creating a universe exactly like the one which ended. God exists as part of the universe but is the only thing that isn't destroyed and reborn. He knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen so technically his knowledge would be infinite if alittle repetitive.
In this way the universe, God and Gods knowledge of the universe would be eternal.
I should of dropped my integrity, become a "professor of spirituality" or some such nonsense and written a book based on the concept. Every wingnut from fundamentalist Christianity to Scientology would of lapped that shit up.
I would be minted by now, seriously.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.