Elucidation?

Hello, it's me again. Don't you remember me? No?

I am the guy who wrote to you from ``heaven''. Remember?

Yeah, I thought so. I arranged for this message to be sent roughly a day or two after the first one, from your perspective of course. Again I should probably remind you that time and space don't actually ``move'' the way you experience it.

So from some of the stuff that a bunch of us have observed from out here, it seems that there has been some confusion over two key things that I was writing about before. Firstly, that I keep calling ``heaven'' with quotation marks, and secondly, the notion of having to learn how to exist. I thought I was being very clear, but someone reminded me (Nietzsche perhaps?) that you guys didn't have the perspective of the infinities associated with six dimensions compressed into a compact set of points, or whatever the hell that was supposed to mean, no thanks to Borel.

In other words, Nietzsche just called all of you folks dumb. Which is quite sad, but I suppose you folks know the nature of Nietzsche---when he was still alive and mortal, he basically decided to insult God as a way of explaining how God and the concept of God are two completely different things. Anyway, a slightly less offensive way fo putting things into perspective is that since all you guys can observe are three (or four, depending on how you look at it) dimensional projections of the true six dimensional manifold, you necessarily cannot have all the information necessary to understand stuff.

So, this manifold we are on isn't the heaven that you folks think of, that's for sure. Erdős agrees---even he couldn't find the metaphorical Book of wonderfully elegant proofs to mathematical theorems out here; all he could find was an infinite number of proofs for an infinite number of theorems, all wonderfully elegant. Once again, we don't know how infinite these numbers are since no one was willing to spend the time to just count them all, but let's just say that the uhhh document of the written forms of all these stands at around three feet? Argh, the distractions! Right, this is merely a space, there's no notion of good or evil, and since it clearly isn't a place of suffering while simultaneously still a place where the dead come to for their after-life, ``heaven'' seems to be the best way to describe it using the least terrible analogy that we can find that fits within your space.

As for existence, you'd be surprised how hard it is to merely exist. I mentioned about Buddha, that guy who has the record for existing, at least within the time frame of the universe? It took him a pretty long while during his mortal days to figure out how to exist beyond the shadow of projection---some of you folks might even remember calling it ``being enlightened'' or even ``reaching nirvana''. That's basically one way of describing it. Most of the other folks who are out here exist using other methods as well; the mathematicians sort of prove of their own existence by doing the easiest thing possible, through the use of either a contrapositive or a contradiction proof, though it does require some serious conviction for some of the predicates that they are using, and the level/strength of existence is highly dependent on how strong/weak the predicates they use. The weaker the predicates they rely on, the stronger their existence. So most of the great mathematicians exist quite well and comfortably due to the weaker assumptions that they used to prove their existence. I don't know how to do that---don't ask me how. I sort of follow Buddha's methods because they are a little easier to follow and understand.

Some religious types keep thinking they are working for their own gods, and some of the more pious ones do end up existing longer, until of course when they realise their notion of their gods are merely illusionary and then they forget how to exist and fall back to the mortal realm, only to re-apply their flawed principles to come back again. Those types never really have a continuous existence. They are sort of like Cantor dust in the space, and we rarely have a chance to chat with them. It has gotten to the point that we merely ignore them until somehow they manage to solidify their existence. Like that Jesus dude; he's pretty cool. He's been around for very long too, maybe not as long as Buddha though, but he's quite chill. His belief is strong, but sometimes he feels a little sad because he keeps saying how his believers are trying to find him so often that they forgot to find themselves, and that the latter action was more important in guaranteeing their existence over finding him. I tend to agree with what he says, but it's probably not something you folks want to hear from me, right?

Oh okay, I think that's all I want to yammer about with regards to ``heaven'' and existence. And remember, all of us out here in ``heaven'' can easily watch you folks, and we do that all the time as well...