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Old 03-14-2007, 12:04 PM   #16 (permalink)
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It is only when one surrenders to the infinite that one discovers God.
I don't think most people have any idea what infinite means. I think things like this are a bunch of hand waving. Is there such a thing as infinite? There seems to be finite matter in the universe. There seem to be a finite number of possible states given quantum mechanically allowed levels of molecules. There seems to be a finite time back into history to what looks like a big bang...

What exactly do you mean (really) when you say infinite? How exactly do you surrender yourself to the infinite? I know this is what gets kicked around in rehab a lot, but really it just seems like you're trading one higher power (drugs) for another and giving it control over you.

Is infinite something other than a mental construct of mathematics in our head? Would that mean that the God that you discover is then also a mental construct in our head?
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