This Summer, in Idaho, a dear friend of mine misspoke. Or maybe I misspoke. Or maybe I'm misspeaking now. Nonetheless, someone uttered, "...almost infinite." Immediately, I made fun of that person, unless I was already making fun someone by my saying it. This idea of Almost Infinite is funny. After some consideration, I realized that I am Almost Infinite. I had a beginning, which I cannot remember, but I'm not so sure I will end. So take my simple paradox, remember the Weight of Glory, do good work, and love one another.
I am named Max Clark.
And God gave me life.
May my biography begin:
He was named Max Clark.
And God gave him life.
And it was not wasted.
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2 comments:
according to Cantor's correspondence theory, the set of all moments your life will persist, like the set of all positive integers, if they unfold in a linear fashion, will indeed be "infinite" (specifically of the cardinality aleph-naught).
"almost infinite" is not a coherent concept, because it just means something like "almost unable to be put into correspondence with the set {1, 2, 3...n}". which could be said of no finite number, no matter how big or complicatedly described.
[note on usage: usually "infinity" is used to represent an extreme limit of the real number line, while "infinite" is the state of a set whose numbers cannot be put into correspondence with the set {1, 2, 3... n}. "Cardinality" is a concept used to distinguish between sizes of infinite sets.]
i like your new blog a lot. i miss you and your uneven, witty, whimslical goofiness. i like taking things you say or do more seriously than you intended them to be taken. i like your lips.
i like your blog title.
um also if you're interested you can read my old musings on some transfinite matters here.
i also like your exhortation.
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