Reminds me of Socrates at the Oracle - "I know that I know nothing" - going by memory, I'm almost certainly got it wrong... But close enough. 

This was part of how I realized that God must exist. That and him yelling at me, but I still had to be sure I wasn't crazy.

Its impossible to know anything in fullness. Take gravity - we have great equations to describe the behavior of gravity, and we've never found an instance of gravity violating the equations, at least not since Einstein adjusted for relativity. (actually we might have, I'll get to that) But we can still can't claim to know the perfect equation for gravity. There could be some conditions, in magnitude or scale or something else that we haven't seen, where we would need to add some little constant to keep the equation working, and at every scale we've measured the constant would have no effect, but at the right circumstances, like the size of a universe, it makes a difference. Then suppose we make those observations, fix the equation, but there's still something we didn't think of... That would go on forever. So the thing to realize is, gravity is not the gravity equation. The real thing is separate from our description of it. The map is not the territory. 

But that's true of everything. Everything you see and touch, is just a representation of the real thing.

The reason scientists think there's dark energy is because the milky way rotates in a way that they can't get out of the gravity equations. So we have evidence of... something. An unknown. Maybe its energy, but it could just be that we don't quite describe gravity in our equations accurately enough. 

So, this is what I say in my bio : knowledge approaches the limit of Truth asymptotically. We refine and refine forever, but the real world, the whole Truth of reality, is always beyond us. And not just a little beyond us - infinitely beyond us. In the context of an asymptote approaching its limit, any imperfection is infinite imperfection.

But if we are infinitely away from Truth, then we can say that Truth is infinitely perfect in all things. This may seem like a leap, but I don't think it is. A real thing, as opposed to its symbolic representation, *exists*. I'm being redundant because its honestly like a zen koan.  It doesn't make sense to describe a real thing because the real thing describes itself - it is the map and the territory. So a zen teacher points at a duck and says "what's that?" And the student answers, "a duck" and gets whacked for being wrong. The correct answer, although still a symbolic representation, is "quack quack quack!" 

Now if the thing is the thing, and it's infinite and enduring, can you subtract one thing off of it and make it less? Nope. Infinity minus one is infinity. Infinity minus an entire personality is infinity. Infinity minus a divinity is infinity. Infinity minus a pantheon of divinities is infinities.

Who are you? I am.
Says everything in the universe.


I got carried away. I hope it was a good read. 

 opa, i started writing a response to that

i'm just gonna summarise it:

the biggest error in thinking and the flaw that evil people exploit is that singularities can be both qualitative and quantitative

when you confuse the two things, you end up with an impossible equation and your brain ceases to funciton properly, and you lose some part of your ability to apprehend reality

but it's really simple, you have nothing, you have everything, and in between you have something that is divided into value and type

if you relate that to computer programming, you can see exactly what i'm saying

types are a kind of data, that is kinda invisible to the code, which acts upon values and a subset of values called references

if you can't discern the distinction between quality and quantity, you can't make sense of the data coming to you

something cannot be infinity, or nothing, and a quality cannot be counted, bit it can be differentiated

and qualities and quantities merge in an awkward way with "real" numbers, which are not really real, they are ratios, they have some aspects of quantitative - they can be summed, subtracted, multiplied and divided, but they are similar to qualities in that they can be infinitely elaborated, combined, and then divided again and merged again forever

but in reality, on your computer, 0.11111111 = 0.11111111 except when it is 0.11111111112 but you ran out of bits that's why you didn't know that

hm not sure where i'm going with this but the point is that arithmetic is the concrete, and the infinite is qualitative and arithmetic on it fails in its lack of precision 

 Its interesting to hear these concepts through a different language. I think we're saying the same things, at least mostly. We're vibing. 

 i have a very concrete way of thinking, always have

people say i'm unsophisticated but i say they are hiding their equations

i literally have recurring nightmares about how people hide their equations, they are like treadplates hidden under rubble that you have to pass through to rescue the princess... they manifest in my dreams as giant 20 foot tall skulls and the jaws are hidden under the ground and you never know where they hid the treadplate

it's an impossible conundrum, unless you first agree to always allow the consensus to be elaborated

and it's a toxic relationship if the changes that are permitted are redefinitions

only psychopaths redefine terms

only psychopaths ultimately want to munch you