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   Noah Sombrero to eye   
   Re: Some unanswerable questions...   
   07 Sep 21 10:23:04   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:09:25 -0700, eye  wrote:   
      
   >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 ...   
      
   You get to choose.  This is a mystery.  Or, if you like, there is an   
   explanation.  This is a recent development.  In ages past, there was   
   only the mystery.   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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