Sentences with phrase «back ad infinitum»

For metaphysics, God is not the first member of a causal series, almost arbitrarily the first, «behind» which there is nothing more, simply because it is impossible to go back ad infinitum (as is often represented in the proofs of God's existence as these are popularly expounded).

Not exact matches

This too shall pass... in the form of dung, gas, sands through the hourglass, but Beck and those who make a buck off someone else's fear, faith, lack of fear, lack of faith, etc. will be with us to the last nanosecond of time, because what God in His or Her right omnipotent mind would want to listen to a ponitificating brat like Beck banging his gums in the back seat ad nauseum ad infinitum?

We can argue back and forth about this ad infinitum.

Having played in a back three will certainly have glossed over some of his shortcomings but the England international has the pace and mobility to slot in should, Heaven forbid we repeal the «thou shall play 4 -2-3-1 ad infinitum» mantra.

Carbon is the major chemical constituent of most organic matter — plants take it in; animals eat plants, die, and decompose; and plants take it back in, ad infinitum.

But it does feature a few tributes to Back to the Future, namely Crispin Glover (spot on as a surly one - armed bellhop whose appendage - ectomy is anticipated all through the eighties flashback), a future birth threatened by the trampling the space - time continuum (aka the butterfly effect, which resident nerd Duke explains ad infinitum) and the dubious lesson that self - empowerment is merely a matter of beating up that bully from the past.

While you can at least go back and keep playing that chapter ad infinitum, the fact that nothing carries over is demotivating.

back and forth at each other ad infinitum until the scene peters out.

Fans have been complaining that the barricades separating them from the stars — Johnny Depp, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Dustin Hoffman, Marion Cotillard, ad infinitum — have been set farther back this year.

All I can think of is «Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite»em,: And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum»: http://www.indiereader.com/

Next I looked for noncash items which could add ad infinitum To replace the ever - outward flow of cash, But to keep my statement black I'd held depreciation back, And my banker said that I'd done something rash.

While you can at least go back and keep playing that chapter ad infinitum, the fact that nothing carries over is demotivating.

Too many of the major players in climate science / politics are guilty of having made highly damaging remarks that are then thrown back at them ad infinitum.

As Albert Ellis, one of the founders of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, points out — «the original cause is lost in antiquity,» as further analysis takes one back to the learnings about conflict resolution in the partner's families growing up, and then we'd have to go back to the parent's families and early training (not to mention the cultural context), ad infinitum.