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To: TigerPaw who wrote (65107)	1/24/2015 2:46:29 PM
From: John	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I agree. I think it all boils down to the fact that our minds are incapable of understanding and resolving infinity. I can easily imagine the universe (or what is to come after the universe ends) enduring and continuing forever. That part is not hard. What is impossible for me is going in the "other direction" and trying to contemplate how anything came into existence in the first place, before space and time ever existed. Of course, "other direction" is a linear term, which drives home the point about how limited our perceptions are. Yet, even if we think in non-linear terms and imagine multiple universes, multiple types of time, multiple dimensions, etc., I still always resort to trying to imagine the beginning of anything, but again, a beginning is a time-relative term, too, which may be irrelevant beyond our perception of it. I think that we go round-and-round in circles while pondering infinity because we are limited by our perception of reality. Perhaps all we can do is to accept that time does not really exist beyond how we perceive it, and everything, in one form or another, is eternal.