Infinity

Although this is removed from the Yazdanism theme, it has occurred to me that, along with free will, infinity is a misunderstood concept, though thankfully not to such a degree as free will. I will return to Yazdanism with Yarsanism, and then with Yazidism, and finally with Yazidi Pilgrimage, which is much too large a topic to be covered with the rest of Yazidism, at later dates.

  

Infinity.

   It goes on forever, with no end and no beginning. There are still measureable distances inside of it, however. If I were to go into a room five metres long, I could measure a metre. If I went into a room that is infinite, I could still measure the metre. In fact, I could measure many metres, and I could measure them infinitely, because the room is infinite. The only difference between the rooms is that one has a beginning and end whereas the other does not.

   Admittedly, this does seem self-evident. So why mention it? A way to illustrate infinity is by imagining an infinite library, and to find a book in row five and a book in row three hundred. Which book will you reach first? The answer to this is ‘neither, because they are both in infinity’.

   A load of nonsense, really.

   The only thing that couldn’t be reached would be the beginning and end, or the sides, or the ceiling, or the floor... Infinity cannot be contained, so the ‘containments’ can’t be reached. That doesn’t limit the different parts of the inside being reached, or affect the laws of physics. If something is further away than something else, it will take longer to reach!

   Infinity may go on for ever, but individual or connected things inside it do not.