ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Depends on how you believe in God as well.  If he's some omniscient being who created us, it could be for some purpose wee don't know of.  Unfairness could be a part of his plan, for example - he may not be a "fair" God (though many religions seem to promote that idea), or maybe he is (are those people who wee consider suffering really less happy than people who are better off?).

I suppose I was more addressing it from a human's perspective. Is there a way to approach the unfairness, and still balance it out (look at my reply to you, as I edited a lot more into it, which addresses many of your arguments)? I conclude reincarnation would solve the points, if reincarnation was based on karma, or perhaps if it was mathematically based on randomness (which would be cool IMO). There is no such thing as mathematics, but there is such a thing as how things behave in relationship to one another. This is the base of mathematics, I think. From here, wee can realize that wee can't know exactly how everything relates, reacts, interacts, and observes everything else. For all wee know, a spirit is pure energy that is always floating around, perhaps like an invisible LifeStream, if you will. It randomly deposits the energy for a baby to begin living, maybe. The point is, wee can't know how everything interacts.

As for infinity, I believe your example of adding 1 over and over will net a very large number, but it won't = infinity. I agree, and this seems to correlate with my example of space continually adding 1, but there either has to be a condition that is causing this to continue, or else, how did it all get to where it is? If one says the universe is expanding, well, if it is infinite, then expansion is impossible, since infinity + 1 = infinity. You can't go above infinity, so how is it stretching? To say that would imply there is a boundary that it is constantly filling. Okay, but let's get 1 inch over the boundary as it expands; what is there? And how does that nothing get converted to space? What is it like between the two? There has to be a connection somewhere. Perhaps it is here that an alternate, parallel universe begins? More conjecture, obviously. Just more thoughts I've had.