I feel like no one's going to see this while I'm still online...but we'll see

I'm just going to post random junk until either someone else shows up or I get too tired

If I had a superpower, I'd want to be able to read minds. Why? Because I'm socially inept, that's why. I just want to know if people actually understand what I'm saying, or if they even want to be talking to me because hints and social cues go right over my head. But I'd only want it if I could choose what to 'hear' so that I wouldn't get overwhelmed with random thoughts of random people and I could even turn it 'off' if I wanted.

Do you know why I love the internet? Because I can be me, just me, without any connection to /me/ because the restraints being me puts on me are annoying but unavoidable. Basically, on the internet I am an amorphous being; I can shift freely from one form to the next while still remaining completely and utterly true to myself and I can also slip seamlessly in and out of situations/communities with no "real" consequences. Sure, there's a group who now thinks differently of me, but they know me, and not /me/, and so /I/ escape such consequences. In short, I use the internet to shrug off the masks /I/ constantly wear to please/just get along with society. I think a lot of peoplehave these same reasons, if anyone can actually understand what I said.

oh, hey :)

didn't think anyone would see this--I was gonna talk about infinity next if you're interested?

oh yeah, to relate the two: chatting with people online allows me to get more from it because a lot more things (emotion, for example) must be spelled out to ensure something isn't taken the wrong way, and so there are less things that I'd miss

dang it, I took too long typing...

plz come back .n.

lordy I get weird when I'm tired

(trust me, this is rather out of character for me, to say the least)

back to talking with myself, dang it

ah, well
BUT if anyone shows up in the next few minutes, please stick around ('cause this is gonna take a wihile to type)

All right, so, infinity. Goes on forever. Simple. Right? WRONG.
See, there's a quote about this:
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities"
(I think that's from The Fault in Our Stars, but I could be completely wrong)
(I mean, I never even read that book)
(don't jump on me for that)
Anyway, back to the point:
That quote is unfortunately entirely true. Why is that unfortunate? Because it basically just described the indescribibility of infinty--our brains just can't handle the idea, we simply cannot fathom of something that Does. Not. End.
(cont.)

Let's go back to the beginning.
So here we have a simple depiction of infinity:
<->
The arrows on either end imply that the line extends infinitely in either direction. This line is infinitely long.
But the line extends /infinitely in either direction/. That means that it extends infinitely to the right, and infinitely to the left. So we split it into two lines:
<-/->
So now the line on the left extands infinitely to the left while the line on the right extends infinitely to the right. Thus, the line on the left is infinitely long, and the line on the right is also infinitely long.
(cont.)

oh cool, you're still here!
sorry if you don't find this as interesting as I do--I'm rather fascinated with the concept (and utter inconceivability) of infinity :)

Now we start running into problems. Since the line on the left is infinitely long, and we cut it off of our original line to make the line on the right, the line on the right must then be infinitely shorter than our original line.
However, /both our original line and the line on the right are infinitely long/.
Okay, this is getting kinda crazy, so let's double check ourselves before we move on: we know the original line exists where the line on the right does not--to the left of the cut--and that there is no place that the line on the right exists but the original line does not--they both extend infinitely to the right--thus proving that the original line is longer than the line on the right. So far, so good; things still make sense.
(cont.)

yup. To be honest, that's what fascinates me about it: that we can come up with the idea and even make use of it yet never actually understand it

And here comes the confusing-*cough* /mind-destroying/-part. Since the length where the original line exists, but the line on the right does not is infinitely long (as previously established), the line on the right is indeed infinitely shorter than the original line.
The confusing part is, the line on the right is still infinitely long.
And since both the original line and the line on the right are infinitely long, yet the line on the right is shorter than the original line (and infintely so)--/as we just proved/--some infinities, actual infinities, /never/ /ending/ /infinities/, therefore, are truly smaller than other infinities, /while still being infinite/.

To sum it up:
You may subtract infinity from infinity yet still remain with an infinite amount and this is why we will never understand infinity.

haha, sorry, I'm done now :p
you wanna actually chat?
(instead of having me talk--well, post--at you?)

oh, and if you want to be technical, it was an original line and then two rays, but this is a crash course in infinity, not math terminology so whatever.
okay, /now/ I'm done

aw, shoot, did I scare ya off? :p

ah, cooleo I should probably do that too...
Good night ^^

and thanks ^^

in the book, [yes, it's from TFiOS] they used a different way of explaining it, which personally, I found easier to understand.
If you have a number, let's say one. Now between one and two you could go with one point one. Or one point two three four or one point nine nine nine repetent, each of which are between the numbers one and two. Since decimals can go on forever, there are an infinite amount of ways to order the digits. [e.g. one point two four versus one point four two etc.] There are an infinite amount of numbers between one and two. But there are more numbers between one and three than there are between one and two. However, there are still an infinite amount between one and two and also an infinite amount between one and three. Therfore, some infinities [the #s between one and three] are bigger than other infinities [the #s between one and two].

eh, I like my way better.
but I like things that are confusing, so...

re: yeah that's bc that's not my handwriting
I like to write in different handwritings but that doesn't mean my handwriting is everything I ever write in [if that makes sense?]
but it's my fav handwriting to use that isn't mine e v e