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Jan. 10, 2005 What is Infinity? It is being. Being cannot be anything else than infinite as it cannot end without running up against another adjoining beginning. Being cannot have finite form as it would then be limited in its extent. The human experience of infinity is such that it seems like a growing condition; it appears as a moving horizon. The reason for this appearance is the mind which only comprehends objects wholly and sensibly in a form that is distinguished from a surrounding environment. But being as such is not an object; it cannot be referred to as something and thus cannot be described in a normal defining manner. Infinity is the one true problem for the mind, because it is the single remaining mystery after all things smaller. The mind in its search for reality looks for the most fundamental substance or the one absolute being, and so infinity of existence is this final remaining line which draws the picture of being inside the mind; but it is a line that neither ends nor seems to define anything in an ultimate sense. But how can it be clearly and satisfactorily conceived that existence is either something finite with a boundary and nothing outside of that boundary or as something eternal and ever stretching in extent without confines? Neither form nor formlessness is an easy answer to existence. Can being be something with neither form, nor formlessness, in other words, completely devoid of form or formlessness altogether? What is there to be conceived without any of these two conditions? Does it perhaps have both form and formlessness? But in the meanings of these concepts of form and its opposite, we can see the primary condition or master concept of form – formlessness derives from the concept of form; one cannot speak of formlessness without employing the connotation or relation to form. Thus form is the primary substance here. In fact, there is nothing but form, as formlessness is inconceivable. There can only be formlessness when there is also form, and when something depends on another, that something cannot be fundamental or absolute; so infinity must be something else than mere formless continuation of being. It will remain indefinable because definition creates limit, and absolute/fundamental being cannot possibly be limited – it cannot even be fundamental or absolute; it is simply not to be defined at all. Is infinity existence at all, or does it escape it entirely? What is the question we need to ask? Is there any meaning in question at all? Is infinity not indeed the questioning act as such? Can infinity and question be the same thing? If so, then answer is in any instance falseness. As it follows then, is absolute truth a question? Is being a questioning of itself? ------------ About the author Werner Reyneke: I am a 23 year old passionate writer/poet in my spare time and a computer programmer by profession. Visit my website to see my first published book. I live in South Africa and have been published in a local newspaper (some poems in Haiku form) for the first time in February 2000. I have also been selected for publication in a VoicesNet Anthology (visit www.Voicesnet.org) and a Poetry.com (ILP Publishers) anthology called "Eternal Portraits"). Visit my website at: http://myweb.absa.co.za/wreyneke/Mybook.htm Email: wreyneke@absamail.co.za Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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