Timeless(time)ness

"When time from time shall set me free."

- e.e. cummings

This Finally Settles It!!

Mathematicians have troubled themselves for centuries as to whether such a thing as "actual" infinity exists (i.e. "completed" infinity - a thing that would be a noun rather than a verb) OR if infinity can only be "potential" (a process that can never been complete - a thing that would be a verb rather than a noun).

I've always held out for the existence of actual infinity.

I have now been vindicated! I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of infinity!

(They had better not just be messing with me!!!)

For Raymond :-)

Lines that are parallel
meet at Infinity!"
Euclid repeatedly,
heatedly,
urged.
Until he died,
and so reached that vicinity:
in it he
found that the darned things
diverged.

-Piet Hein (1905-1996)

(poem slightly abridged)

Infinite Paradox

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

-A. W. Tozer (1897 - 1963)

Existence of God

Italian mathematician Guido Ubaldi (1671-1742)felt that the following was a proof for the existence of God, because "something has been created out of nothing."

0

= 0 + 0 + 0 + . . .

= (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + . . .

= 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + . . .

= 1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + . . .

= 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + . . . .

= 1

So we have begun with zero and built one out of it. As he said: "something has been created out of nothing."

Regardless of what you think of the conclusion he came to, is there a problem with the "proof" mathematically? If so, where is the problem?