15th january 2009
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1 ^ 10 000 years
or
love/life is about 0.00125 or 1/1000 of the way through squaring a line-length
about 1 ^ 80 000 years*
1 ^ 80 000 years is so large it must mean we're at the tail end of evolution and i haven't got a chance of making it
or
it's such a little number compared to other, bigger numbers, all i've gotta' do is get paramatized and getting to heaven is gonna' be a breeze
these impossibly large time-scale numerical values are difficult to think about
a number, by definition, is finite
divide any number by infinity and it becomes an infinitely small value
multiply 1 ^ 10 000 by 1 ^ 10 000 for 1 ^ 10 000 years at a rate of 1 ^10 functions per second and then divide the result by infinity and it becomes an infinitely small value
we're going 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 x ... for the rest of eternity
and remember
there will always be more time ahead of us then there is behind us...
infinitely more
* the writer latched on to this number when he came across it while browsing through a book that gave a résumé of original and notable achievements of ancient greek thinkers
the name of the greek thinker who put this number forward as being the largest number we would ever need is not remembered at the moment but all of the thinking that came out of that period that has stood the test of time was based on a sound rationale' although the rationale' for this number wasn't given or has been forgotten
the actual number given was 1^ 83 000
the intuitive insights that the greek civilization produced two and half thousand years ago is something we still regard with an almost mystical appreciation
what caused that flowering of intellectualism ?
all of the major ideas that came from that era had a sound rational basis underpinning them although the reason for this number being the biggest number we would ever need wasn’t given
the writer likes to think that in a future undulation the greek thinkers will put the number at 1 ^ 81 000 which suggests that in a previous undulation they it pegged at 1 ^ 79 000
1st september 2009
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a person trying to project the experiences of the here and now into the forever may well find themselves thinking that they don't want to go to heaven
the thing to remember about heaven is that it is beyond anything a person can imagine
put all the best experiences of your life together and try and imagine them all happening at the same time
then further imagine that state of being continuing
then imagine that those combined feelings and thoughts don't come anywhere near the basic feelings that exist in heaven
the writers experiences of 20 years ago produced a whiff of the senses and feelings accompanying freedom...
an exhilaration that filled the sense of being and which intensified every new moment as his mind was exposed to the reality of the extent of infinite distance
in ways not yet fully comprehended love moderates that runaway feeling
it's going to take an artist or narrator with special skills to describe picture page "heavenly bodies" and begin the orientation process of being of forever