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Damoclese
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Date Posted: 02/16/04 9:29pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Actuality" on 02/16/04 8:07pm


>Okay, it’s wrong in the sense that it just can’t apply
>to an infinite past, where there is no year
>where he starts at. Hence we count backwards.

Why count in the first place forward or backwards if it's infinite? How can you count backwards if you don't know where the beginning of something is?



>
>I agree that Shandy would never finish if he had been
>writing from eternity past. But if this is true,
>Shandy is infinitely far behind, and we get the
>paradox I described earlier.

His being infinitely behind doesn't mean he doesn't get to experience the present.

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