Originally Posted by
NiftyNiblick
Forward infinity is easy to understand.
It's just more of the same forever.
Backwards infinity is impossible to understand.
An original wellspring?
But what was before that?
And even before that?
Fortunately, it doesn't matter.
Relatively soon, my sub-atomic components will metamorphosize to a form that doesn't sustain thought,
and at that time, my short run will have been completed,
the extent or lack of its significance to be pondered by entities whose own short runs will soon be over as well.
And so it goes.
Forward infinity? Understandable but hardly compelling.
Backward infinity? Unfathomable but still hardly compelling.
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