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Article #478Re: RIP Bob Pease
From: Bitrex
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:19
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:19
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On 6/21/2011 3:07 AM, Martin Brown wrote: > On 21/06/2011 05:48, Don Klipstein wrote: >> In<p07007dpakj4p93qajedhpprq7rogaflti@4ax.com>, OutsideObserver wrote: >> >> <SNIP to here> >> >>> In Heaven, you will have no gender. You will have no gadgetry. >>> You will have no desires of the flesh. > > And it will be fantastically boring after a very short while. In the > first third of eternity you can solve chess. Then you can solve Go on > every size of board and after that it will get pretty boring. Assuming you had complete control over the state of your own consciousness in Heaven, you could decide that contemplating the number 1 was the most interesting thing in the universe to do, and do that for eternity. If by some fluke you did become bored, you could move on to the number 2, and so on. If for some reason the concept of numerals does not exist in Heaven, perhaps one could instead contemplate the empty set, and then the set of the empty set, and then the set of the empty set which contains the empty set...
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