Infinite...?

Question

Since there is an infinite amount of real numbers between zero and one how are there theoretically any numbers more than one. Yes .01 or .996 are real but less than one. Are the thought of numbers more than one the reason for categories and many of human's problems, such as the class conflict? Because if you are 2 then you are infinitely more than 1? Where two would be the high class and one the low class. If we would remember we are all of one, would we be happy to live, no madder our status? How could there be more than 1 if really there is only 1 thing that we know of, one universe? We are all part of one, right, so how can there theoretically be more than one? How can there be more than one infinite? For even all the particles in the Universe can fit into one

Answer 1

You are a monist! I can't, "for the life of me," imagine infinity or eternity. Like wise I can't imagine nothingness or a mathematical point. That is because, unlike infinity which has no beginning and no end, I have a definiely tangible beginning and a very definitely expected end. I once thought that sleep where you abandon yourself to a deathlike state of unconsciousness, which you have no way of willing yourself out of its nothinness, was nothingness, But the fact that something always awakens me to a new day a new chance for awareness for awhile is one thing that makes me aware there may be no such thing as nothing. And if there is no such thing as nothing then there is no beginning and no end to most things other than me.

You see we are constrained by our sense of time which is Newtonian, punctuated by days and nights and not reality in the universe at large. Your argument that there is no number larger than one is likewise punctuated as then there would necassarily be no place for your nothings (like the number 2...etc.). I can imagine 2...etc. so they are not nothing and have to exist between 0 and 1 in your scheme, which means that the new one between 0 and 1 has to have an infinite number of integers between it and and the beginning. You get a lot of infinite regresses there especially when you bring in negative numbers.

My problem is I can't imagine an infinity because I know I have had that beginning and will have that end so I have not time enough to work it out in my mind. The same problem arises with the one universe we know, I can't imagine the nothingness they say occurs outside it nor can i imagine that it is like wise the beginning of all time and everything.

As for classes I don't recognize them because we all started out as an equal infant and I look on another as just an infant maybe gone wild with his presumed knowledge and "success" neither of which is infinite. I do believe in a supernatural creator of all who may be infinite and for that reason unimaginable. The theologians of the world, who used to be and maybe still are the higher class, have imagined all sorts of physical realities for this abstract principle who is God who may be Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. But being as I can not imagine infinity, like them, I can't claim to know these things as true.

Answer 2

Err...I need a drink