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   eye to Noah   
   Re: Some unanswerable questions...   
   07 Sep 21 07:09:25   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   Noah wrote:   
   > aye wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>> Noah 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?   
      
   >>>>>>>> As for various other conundrums, the existence of a knowledge does not   
   >>>>>>>> mean that it is possible for humans to know it.   
   >>   
   >>Questions are able to be asked   
   >>which have little or no meaning.   
   >>   
   >>How high is up, for example.   
   >>An answer may deep end to a point.   
   >>   
   >>Which direction is down, could be an other   
   >>for one who lives above or below an equator,   
   >>the imaginary line said to circle a pale blue dot.   
      
   Really is   
   ore can be   
   an other word   
   added to a quest-   
   ion of sorts to be an-   
   swerable or unanswerable.   
      
   Which direction of the pale blue dot point   
   when it spins going basically round a sun known   
   as the Sun of all suns? Which Way is up, in other words?   
      
   Standing on the surface of what appears to be, really,   
   really appears to be flat, with a star able to rise and set,   
   moving higher or lower at times through a sky, Earth can be   
   proven using Ptolemaic astronomy to be at a center.   
      
   Science, with its inductive reasoning and empirical gathering   
   of phenomena brings to a point various points going beyond   
   the ability of its own methodology. Hypotheticals spring froth.   
      
   >>If there is no life after physical/material being   
   >>then there's no problem for those having shed skins.   
   >>   
   >>- in the game   
   >   
   >If life is a game.  To me this all suggests a prescription for knowing   
   >that I don't know anything.  Fine, except that I don't know that   
   >either.   
      
   This morning my Tao took me walking a round   
   several square and rectangular blocks when suddenly   
   a neighbor appeared who knew my name and called out   
   saying hi or hello.   
      
   I knew his name but didn't know it. His companion how-   
   ever, a four-footed friend, her name was recalled and,   
   asking how she, by name, was doing we conversed, he   
   and I, we did, did we, yes we did.   
      
   Then, after we'd passed like two neighbors at sunrise,   
   about half a minute amount of time later his name was   
   recalled and a wonder was, how did that happen?   
      
   A mind of mine works without me knowing how with   
   its elf and elves doing things unknown to me yet it,   
   they and them are all me, unless defined as not me.   
      
   - given: a school; life is ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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