Blaise Pascal: The Infinite Spaces, Alienation, and the Wager

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> For in fact what is man in nature? A nothing in comparison with the infinite, an all in comparison with the nothing, a meeting between nothing and everything.

The path through this existential angst, I think, is in the realization that the nothing can't exist if there isn't something somewhere. The hole needs a doughnut around it.

Likewise, the infinite has no dimensions, it has no "infinity" in it without something finite to compare it to.

The relative size doesn't matter, the presence itself does.

orthogonal to "the sound of a tree falling when no one is around to hear it" ?

My solace lies in the realization that there's an uncountably infinite number of real numbers between zero and one. This means every moment possesses its own unique infinity if we choose to see it.

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits" Wittgenstein

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