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'''Infinity''' means beyond enumeration.<ref>This improved definition comports best with the use of the term in mathematics, in everyday life, and across cultures and languages.</ref>  Appreciation of infinity -- particularly infinite time -- is remarkably useful mentally, emotionally, and on a personal level.  "Paradise" is infinite happiness; "[[Hell]]" is infinite distress; in electronics, a "open circuit" has infinite resistance.<ref>Anxiety or fear about infinity is a psychiatric condition known as "apeirophobia", which exists because infinity is real.</ref> '''''Recognition of infinite time can overcome almost any anxiety'''''. Financial-related stress can be reduced by recognizing money as being infinite.  A human being has infinite potential.
 
'''Infinity''' means beyond enumeration.<ref>This improved definition comports best with the use of the term in mathematics, in everyday life, and across cultures and languages.</ref>  Appreciation of infinity -- particularly infinite time -- is remarkably useful mentally, emotionally, and on a personal level.  "Paradise" is infinite happiness; "[[Hell]]" is infinite distress; in electronics, a "open circuit" has infinite resistance.<ref>Anxiety or fear about infinity is a psychiatric condition known as "apeirophobia", which exists because infinity is real.</ref> '''''Recognition of infinite time can overcome almost any anxiety'''''. Financial-related stress can be reduced by recognizing money as being infinite.  A human being has infinite potential.
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The existence of infinity tends to prove the existence of [[God]].  Nature and universe reflect mathematical truths, and the denying the existence of God implicitly denies the existence of infinity, contrary to logic, evidence, and the enormous usefulness of the concept.
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The existence of infinity tends to prove the existence of [[God]].  Nature and universe reflect mathematical truths, and denying the existence of God implicitly denies the existence of infinity, contrary to logic, evidence, and the enormous usefulness of the concept.
    
The food supply is essentially infinite in cultures where obesity is a problem; wealth is essentially infinite for those who cannot spend it all in their lifetime; and time is infinite for those who waste it.  "More" in those situations is meaningless; less is nothing to have anxiety about.  Some scoff at primitive cultures that use infinity rather than large numbers, but that is actually productive in viewing quantities larger than meaningful.  Also, infinity reinforces the primacy of the future (which is infinite) over the past (merely finite).  Given that "time is money," "infinite time" ([[eternal life]]) is "infinite money" and the concept is helpful in dealing with financial anxiety.
 
The food supply is essentially infinite in cultures where obesity is a problem; wealth is essentially infinite for those who cannot spend it all in their lifetime; and time is infinite for those who waste it.  "More" in those situations is meaningless; less is nothing to have anxiety about.  Some scoff at primitive cultures that use infinity rather than large numbers, but that is actually productive in viewing quantities larger than meaningful.  Also, infinity reinforces the primacy of the future (which is infinite) over the past (merely finite).  Given that "time is money," "infinite time" ([[eternal life]]) is "infinite money" and the concept is helpful in dealing with financial anxiety.
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