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   Noah Sombrero to All   
   Re: Some unanswerable questions...   
   05 Sep 21 08:16:40   
   
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   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 07:59:47 -0400, Noah Sombrero    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 04:55:04 -0700, one  wrote:   
   >   
   >>o'Mahoney wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>I should have clarified.  Does God know the last *natural* number?   
   >>>Does God know the last decimal of every *irrational* number including   
   >>>Euler's number, the square root of 8, Pi and the golden ratio?  Does   
   >>>God know the largest irrational number?  Does God know the final   
   >>>prime?  Does God know the final rational number?   
   >>   
   >>A pair, a dime, a time can shifts a box in shadows made by frogs   
   >>when a boxing ring of truth claims worms beneath the lids there on.   
   >>   
   >>The questions presuppose a last or final number exists   
   >   
   >As for various other conundrums, the existence of a knowledge does not   
   >mean that it is possible for humans to know it.   
      
   In other words, it is possible, unlike god, for humans to invent a   
   number (square root of 8) that they cannot know.   
      
   It might actually be that god does not count things.  For all we know.   
   Wouldn't that be like you counting how many cells comprise your liver?   
      
   >>for the various categories of numbers contained   
   >>in the questions without question,   
   >>knot to mention the largest.   
   >>   
   >>A number line mite might find ever sewn many points,   
   >>and between those points, more points, and sew on   
   >>adding between them all until one finds them all   
   >>or is unable to find them all really given a so-   
   >>so-called Real number line.   
   >>   
   >>There and then may be an odd gee whiz aum a tree   
   >>thing when the square root of two appears in sand.   
   >>   
   >>Being able to easily draw the length of such a critter   
   >>could lend a hand to rooting out an irrational thought.   
   >>   
   >>- connecting dots ... Cheers!   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero   
      
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