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The Dangers of Being Trapped by Infinity

posted June 3, 2008 - 1:11pm
The Dangers of Being Trapped by Infinity

By Ken Korczak

Getting trapped by infinity can happen to anyone at any time. It can be a frightening situation, but if you remain calm, you'll see that there is a way to deal with it, and a way for you to find your way back. You first have to understand how you came to be lost or trapped by infinity.

Let's say that you want to go the liquor store. Let's say that the liquor store is 10 miles from your house. So you get in your car and start driving to the liquor store. So far so good, but you are already plunging deep into the endless chasm of infinity. Read on to find out why.

So the liquor store is 10 miles away -- and sooner or later you will go half that distance -- 5 miles. You will agree with me now that you are not yet at the liquor store. That's obvious. So now you keep driving to the liquor store, and you now go half of the remaining distance of 5 miles. When you get to 2.5 miles away from the liquor store, you are still not there, right? You still have 2.5 miles to go.

So now you have to eat up that last 2.5 miles before you can finally arrive at the liquor store. But first, you must go half the distance of the remaining 2.5 miles. And after you go half that distance, you have to keep gobbling up those "half-the-distance" units in order for you to get to the liquor store. The trouble is -- no matter how small those "half-the-distance" units get, you still have to cross them before you can get to the liquor store.

You are now starting to panic because you realize that each "half-the-distance" units will never be zero. That may get extremely tiny, like one-millionth of a mile, or one billionth of a mile. Yet, no matter how small the distance, that distance will always be between you and the liquor store. So the math is clear. You cannot ever get to the liquor store. There's an infinite number of "half-the-distances" blocking your way.

So you get frustrated and decide to turn around and go back home. But, huh-o, you soon discover a problem. To get back home, you must first travel half the distance to get there -- and you run into the same trap again. There will always be an infinite number of "half-the-distance" units separating you from your house. Guess what? You are now lost in infinity. There is no way out. What should you do?

The first thing you must do is accept the fact that you are trapped in infinity. You must now radically restructure the way you think about the world, and re-tool your sense of what "reality" is. You must recognize that there are inherent and strange paradoxes bleeding through to all aspects of your life. You must come to accept that what you thought was your normal life no longer exists as such -- you have to because it's obvious you are trapped in infinity.

While you are sitting there in your car, driving endlessly, trapped by infinity, you must stop struggling against your situation. The more you try to drive your way out of an infinite distance, the more you struggle, and the more you will stay lost in infinity.

So, rather than struggling with the impossible, simply stop driving and start contemplating the strange paradox you have gotten all tangled up within. You know that you can't get to the liquor store, or back home, yet you clearly remember being at the liquor store many times, and being at your home many times. So, even though it is impossible to travel and infinite distance, you still have the ability to do so. You know that because you have done it.

So you hold the concept of being separated from all reality by an infinite distance, and the seemingly contradictory fact that you can go and get to anywhere you want. Your brain, your normal way of thinking, will get frustrated as it tries to hold two opposing facts as being equally true when they both can't be true at the same time.

When your brain reaches its maximum capacity of frustration over the problem, it will solve the problem by taking a transcendent leap beyond the problem, and present you with an amazingly clear and simple solution to the problem. You will have a new awareness. You will awaken to a greater reality. At that point, you will be home -- safely and soundly returned from your entrapment by infinity.

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Comments

I'm Halfway Finished with This Drink; After Half of that and ...

... half of that and half of that and ... O NOOO! Earn love above, either there or Here!

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I figured it out

Quit drinking. That way you don't have to leave the house to get your alcohol, thereby keeping the paradox from happening.

Stay strong, stay focused, stay true to yourself, and you can accomplish anything.

You've done it!

mythman, my friend, you have just solved the problem! Congratulation! Your prize is the new-found freedom that your mind and all of your experiences never existed in the first place -- enjoy your freedom!! A TRUE STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO MET A REAL FAIRY!

Hmm, Have to Survey the Mind ... Oh No! I Can't Feel or See It!

How can I wrap my mind around the infinity of fractionality when my mind doesn't exist? Earn love above, either there orHere!

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Infinity equals Zero

Expressing infinity in maths: "We could use the term positive infinity to refer to all the positive numbers combined together, but such a term would not actually represent a completed sum or combined whole. Since there is always a next greater number in this group there cannot be a single definite value. This positive infinity is more a representation of a never ending process; a series of numbers, and not a number itself. Of course the same is true of the infinity of negative numbers. Like the positive side, there isn't a unified sum of all the negative numbers. But what if we combine together all the positive numbers with all the negative numbers? We can write this as an equation. At first it seems like if we try to sum all numbers into a single ultimate number; if we sum all the positive numbers with all negative numbers, then the total combination of all in question would sum up to zero, as shown below. (1 + (-1)) + (2 + (-2)) + (3 + (-3)) +... = 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 0 Wouldn't that be strange if the sum of all numbers somehow equaled zero. We could then say that zero represents the everything of math, couldn't we."

Ad infinitum

when you start getting such enlightenment it usually means that you are visiting the liquor store toooo often. I recommend, apply the same logic to the bottle and you will never have to go to the liquor store again. Someone said," It is the journey which is important not the destination" Maybe he never reached the liquor store.

Ahhh, I get it now...

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Ad Infinitum!!

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A Proposed Solution

When you are leaving your initial point to go to the liqour store, decide instead to go a distance that is farther than said store by such an amount as to make the liquor store the half-way point. :) Unless you go by Tara's suggestion and give up on moving altogether... FreeCracker4Jack Would you like to earn money writing similar articles? CLICK ME! Read more great articles: http://www.xomba.com/xombyte/free_cracker_4_jack?p

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It's Even Worse

Consider... in order to reach a point half-way from the bottle store, we must first reach a point half-way from that point, making this impossible as well. From this, we can inductively prove that it is in fact impossible to move! Fortunately, we are somehow able to reach the bottle store and drown all these troubles in a good beer.

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