Re: OT: Prayer, ritual and magic // was conlang website
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 21:19 |
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > <headache> My notions of eternity are tied to physics and Cantorian
> > infinities, which, I suspect, have nothing to do with religion.
>
> Well, there is an analogy: aleph-null is not simply the largest number
> there is; it's outside the natural numbers altogether.
<sardonic g> And then you get into things like the ineffable Mahlo
cardinals, or...
> > I'm currently reading a website that attempts to explain some of this
> > stuff--doctrinal differences, what have you. I hope it helps me figure
> > things out, though ultimately that's my responsibility!
>
> Which website?
http://www.religioustolerance.org
I figure they've probably got some holes in their information but they've
got stuff on lots of different variants of Christianity (using a rather
inclusive definition), among other things.
YHL