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offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 11:58 [#00136026]
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1. Write list of things to do.

Example -

a) get a haircut
b) get a job
c) bake some cakes
d) talk to lard
e) write list of things to do

continue this for ever

in the end the list will include one item only,

e)write list


 

offline Dialect Falx from New Bern (United States) on 2002-03-22 11:59 [#00136030]
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no. you die. then the list stops.


 

offline KEN from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 12:01 [#00136033]
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how? surely you could talk to lard for as long as you
like...????...or you vcould keep getting jobs....mmmnnnn. i
like the nature of these threads to day...


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 12:02 [#00136036]
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Yes - you will die before completing the list! You, as an
individual CANNOT continue the list forever, because humans
don't last forever - we're a bad design if you ask me?

Can I get a refund???


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 12:03 [#00136037]
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Besides why would you want to talk to lard?

Very strange !! :)


 

offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 12:14 [#00136047]
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Modified list:

a) clean new bike
b) whisper to lard
c) create a robot that writes lists and responds to lists by
writing lists about lists, telling himself to write lists,
with writing lists as the only topic on the list of lists.
d) use super conductors to power robot to allow for infinite
life span



 

offline KEN from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 12:14 [#00136048]
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ahhhh- get it now-but surely infinity ceases when you die?
ie you would no longer be funtionally to appreciate the
concept of infinity.


 

offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 12:15 [#00136050]
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i dont believe in death as mumrah is my dad


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 12:17 [#00136052]
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Thundercats eh?? But once you are dead - you can't take the
list to complete it though can you?


 

offline shortcircuit from Red Ends (Germany) on 2002-03-22 12:17 [#00136053]
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that's the same as the sound of the falling tree that no one
hears...


 

offline KEN from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 12:20 [#00136055]
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so does that list theory prove infinity?


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 12:21 [#00136056]
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Investigating whether or not a falling tree makes a noise
could would probably be on the list as a seperate issue ;)


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 12:22 [#00136057]
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Generations and generations of people could continue adding
stuff to the list, you we as individuals could only write so
much, as our lifespans are not infinate!


 

offline Vader from € Lisbon, PT on 2002-03-22 14:12 [#00136185]
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what about drawing a circumference? Or this:
1,2 between 1 and 2 are a infinite number of numbers so are
the points of a circumference.


 

offline Contour Regard from Herscher (come and find me) (United States) on 2002-03-22 15:22 [#00136270]
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or how about pi, an infinite number


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2002-03-22 16:14 [#00136331]
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the following sentence is false
the preceding sentence is true

wha-?


 

offline wizards teeth from Newcastle (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 16:17 [#00136336]
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have you read that book aneurySm ?


 

offline Omneignotumus on 2002-03-22 17:27 [#00136401]
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Matter in the form of a robot or any object that you could
conceive of is not infintite in life span.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-22 18:04 [#00136458]
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eventually the sun will use up all it's fuel and explode
before shrinking again, killing the robot... if the robot
moved to another solar system, eventually the universe will
collapse, killing the robot. eventually time won't exist...
because there will be no way for matter to perform actions
with any significance since it'll be so tightly packed in
one area or something.


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-03-22 18:12 [#00136469]
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Wow- that's very deep! I can't think of anything else to say
on this matter!


 

offline Duble0Syx from Columbus, OH (United States) on 2002-03-22 19:23 [#00136543]
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Unless you creatied a form of consciessness beyond the
physical universe, and then it might be possible...


 


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