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- ...presents... The Illusion of Motion
- by Tequila Willy
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- >>> a cDc publication.......1991 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- There is only one being, continuous, material, and motionless.
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- Let's take a moment to examine a number line.
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- <----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|---->
- 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70
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- It's pretty simple to understand. The line represents a distance, and the
- "|" characters symbolize different points on the line-the exact points are
- differentiated by the number below them.
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- Any number line is understood to have contai
- n points which aren't
- necessarily designated by a number. For example, on the above number line we
- know that between 5 and 10 we can find the point 7. This example is
- illustrated below.
-
- <----|-|--|---->
- 5 7 10
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- In fact, it is understood that there are an infinite number of points on
- any number line. Between 5 and 7 we can find the points 5.009852, 5.9, 6,
- 6.262623627000029873257690125762, 6.3336, 6.999, 6.9999, etc.
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- Rulers are examples of how we might commonly use a number line
- . Different
- rulers mark off different distances such as yards, feet, inches, centimeters,
- millimeters, and so on. Obviously rulers cannot be used to measure all
- distances because some distances may be too small to be measured practically
- with the naked eye.
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- Hypothetically speaking, let's say you had a worm and a razor blade.
- Let's also hypothesize that this particular worm is two inches long. Now if
- you were to cut this worm exactly in half you should have "two worms" each one
- inch long.
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- If y
- ou then took one of those one inch pieces and cut it in half you would
- then have two pieces each one fourth of an inch long-I don't really know how
- many times you can cut a worm in half before it stops becoming two worms and
- just becomes pieces of worm.
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- Theoretically, if you had the right tools, you should be able to continue
- cutting that worm in half forever. You simply take one of those 1/4 inch
- pieces, cut it, and then you have a 1/8 inch piece. Then you cut it again, and
- you have a 1/16..1/34..1
- /68..1/136..etc. And why not? If you placed this worm
- (prior to cutting it at all) on a number line and found it covered the distance
- between 1 and 2 (and we all know there are an infinite number of points on a
- number line) then you should be able to use the worm as a kind of ruler and be
- able to locate an infinite number of points on it.
-
- Okay, so now we know worms are an infinite number of points long.
- Skyscrapers are also an infinite number of points long. Therefore, worms are
- as tall as skyscrap
- ers. Skyscrapers as tall as worms.
-
- Because everything has an infinite number of points and is infinitely
- divisible, then everything must be equal in length (width, height, etc.).
-
- How is this possible? Simple. The universe isn't made up of many
- different things, it's just one singular object.
-
- Okay, let's consider another point.
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- You might think it's reasonable to believe that you walked across the room
- and sat down in the chair in front of your computer, yet, as I will explain
- momen
- tarily, such a notion is ludicrous because motion is an illusion.
-
- If motion is an illusion then clearly the universe is not made up of many
- different objects (e.g. a chair, a battleship, a moon) but rather the universe
- is one large singular object.
-
- When you see someone walk across a basketball court you tend to think you
- are observing motion. But what are you really observing? This person appears
- to be traversing from point A to point B across the court.
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- A ---------------------------->
- B
-
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- Let's say that it takes this person 15 seconds to appear to move from
- point A to point B. If this is the case, then the person is traveling
- through an infinite number of points in a finite amount of time because the
- line the person walks from point A to point B can be represented as a number
- line (and we know that number lines contain an infinite number of points).
-
- Because infinity implies no end, it's impossible for anything to travel
- through an infinite number of points in a finite (limite
- d) amount of time.
- Therefore any apparent motion is actually an illusion.
-
- The reason this person cannot move across the basketball court is because
- the assumption that many things exist also assumes that everything is divisible
- and therefore the distance that any thing must move is divisible into an
- infinite number of points. And if, then, a person moving across a basketball
- court can never reach any point without first reaching its previous midpoint,
- and if there are an infinite number of points, it
- is impossible to traverse
- this infinite number of points in a finite amount of time.
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- Motion, then, is an illusion and there is only one being, continuous,
- material, and motionless.
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