08-06-2003, 12:00 AM
Lately, Ive been touched by this thought in my own journey to understand reality regarding our existence and infinity as in the above post, I touched upon the question of where does it end or does it ever end? Does it go on forever?
I thought about how one can take a cell and stretch it out into infinity if you kept cutting the cell in half. Cut a cell in half, and then take one of those half pieces and cut it in half and then from those two half pieces take one of the cut in half pieces and cut it in half and keep going and going.
Could you ever reach a point where you could no longer keep cutting that cell or could you keep cutting on forever? Does each individual cell in us stretch unto infinity? If I take the number "1" and keep diving it by half and keep going and going and going do I ever reach a number where I can no longer divide that number in half or does it stretch out into infinity?
This is what has been touched upon me and why I have stated in one of my above posts that mans normal state of attention may not be able to come to answer or understand how life started here, anymore than man in a normal state of awareness can fully understand and perceive what Don Juan taught. Its also why actual facts may blow away both mainstream creationism and evolutionism and I want to be ready to accept anything that comes along, rather then hang on to a particular view.
It may come down to an infinite number of machines that go on forever.
I thought about how one can take a cell and stretch it out into infinity if you kept cutting the cell in half. Cut a cell in half, and then take one of those half pieces and cut it in half and then from those two half pieces take one of the cut in half pieces and cut it in half and keep going and going.
Could you ever reach a point where you could no longer keep cutting that cell or could you keep cutting on forever? Does each individual cell in us stretch unto infinity? If I take the number "1" and keep diving it by half and keep going and going and going do I ever reach a number where I can no longer divide that number in half or does it stretch out into infinity?
This is what has been touched upon me and why I have stated in one of my above posts that mans normal state of attention may not be able to come to answer or understand how life started here, anymore than man in a normal state of awareness can fully understand and perceive what Don Juan taught. Its also why actual facts may blow away both mainstream creationism and evolutionism and I want to be ready to accept anything that comes along, rather then hang on to a particular view.
It may come down to an infinite number of machines that go on forever.