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29 Dec 2011, 1:20 pm

That has no possibility of existing?

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29 Dec 2011, 1:25 pm

What do you want us to think about?



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29 Dec 2011, 1:27 pm

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What do you want us to think about?


Whatever gets you into the zone of conceptualizing something that doesn't exist.



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29 Dec 2011, 1:33 pm

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That has no possibility of existing?

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Square circle - even if the visualization is way too fuzzy to see in any degree of resolution. :D


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29 Dec 2011, 1:40 pm

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Square circle - even if the visualization is way too fuzzy to see in any degree of resolution. :D


Come to think about it, does a circle or square exist? The idea behind them certainly does, but do they actually exist?



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29 Dec 2011, 1:43 pm

I regret clicking onto this thread. Already my brain hurts!!

Squares and Circles.... what the hell?! :P



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29 Dec 2011, 1:44 pm

A politician who doesn't lie?


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29 Dec 2011, 1:45 pm

A unicorn that lives in the moon.


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29 Dec 2011, 1:46 pm

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A unicorn that lives in the moon.


Not possible at all?



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29 Dec 2011, 1:54 pm

snapcap wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
What do you want us to think about?


Whatever gets you into the zone of conceptualizing something that doesn't exist.


For the past few years I have been writing fiction so I often get into the zone of conceptualising things that don't exist (characters at least)



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29 Dec 2011, 1:56 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
A politician who doesn't lie?


A useful Eurocrat?



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29 Dec 2011, 1:56 pm

Robdemanc wrote:
snapcap wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
What do you want us to think about?


Whatever gets you into the zone of conceptualizing something that doesn't exist.


For the past few years I have been writing fiction so I often get into the zone of conceptualising things that don't exist (characters at least)


Do those characters non-exist as far as you can tell, or characters that have no possibility of existing?



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29 Dec 2011, 2:02 pm

snapcap wrote:
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snapcap wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
What do you want us to think about?


Whatever gets you into the zone of conceptualizing something that doesn't exist.


For the past few years I have been writing fiction so I often get into the zone of conceptualising things that don't exist (characters at least)


Do those characters non-exist as far as you can tell, or characters that have no possibility of existing?


Interesting question. Some characters are set in the past, and did not exist then and so have no possibility of existing. Some exist in the future and are genetically modified, so the chances of someone in the future actually producing these characters is rather slim.



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29 Dec 2011, 2:05 pm

An eternity in heaven or hell has no possibility of existing, if we agree that eternity means all of time. Because the time we are now alive is not classed as either heaven or hell, so a fraction of eternity is not spent in heaven or hell.



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29 Dec 2011, 2:10 pm

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An eternity in heaven or hell has no possibility of existing, if we agree that eternity means all of time. Because the time we are now alive is not classed as either heaven or hell, so a fraction of eternity is not spent in heaven or hell.


Oh yeah...good point. Somone also couldn't possibly tell the 'whole' truth because they'd need omniscience to get that done.


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29 Dec 2011, 2:13 pm

snapcap wrote:
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A unicorn that lives in the moon.


Not possible at all?
Nope.


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