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Rather than nothing?
Because something is and nothing is not
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I’ll accept that answer
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I think it is on the mark
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I likes it. I wonder too, in a rather unrelated way, how big and vast is a space-less, timeless, immaterial place where a god or gods might live? Is that place a something or a nothing? How do theists know this? How do they know that it is their particular take on their particular god that occupies said place? Where’s the bathroom in such a place? Can you get a decent meal there? How much for an overnight in a B&B there?
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I have though hard and long about how a spaceless and immaterial that exists out of time can do things and I have come to a blank. I am hoping the Allahists can explain it to us
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If he is outside of time, when would “doing things” even occur? Some kind of eternally present now?
One writer I liked says that there is no such thing as “nothing” (no-thing) without a thing, so the very question is nonsensical.
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Very good mak, I likes this too! You have a way with words, and this is nicely concise.
I feel the urge to quote Dr Suess – “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
– sonmi smiling from the Cloud
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I must have learnt from you. You do have a way with words.
I like the quote by Dr. Suess
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Makes sense to me. Maybe there is no such thing as nothing. It’s just a continuous something that changes with time.
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I like that idea, too.
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Oh I like this. It’s not possible is it – NOTHING?
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Nothing is the negation of possibility.
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I always found it to be the catalyst for something
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You have been missing for ages! I hope you are well.
Maybe it is
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I’m not quite there yet, but I am working hard at it. You are all missed! I have been trying to keep up on reading, but could not comment on all that I wanted. Peace and much love to you and all here.
Hi John!
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What ever would we do without philosophy?
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Live like cows, and I mean no disrespect for cows
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Nothing? 😉
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‘Nothing’ . . . the presence of absence. No mind, no perception . . . what presence?
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My Nairobi brother, you asked the question and you answered the question. There’s nothing left for us, your readers and followers to do. Unless…there’s something that you’re looking for that we just don’t see. I hope you’re enjoying your week! Much love and naked hugs! 🙂
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You know I am rarely this nice 🙂
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I think of you as always considerate and nice! 😉
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you are too kind my friend, way too kind
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Noel your statement has the directness and wise simplicity of ‘I think, therefore I am.” Great stuff out of nothingness 😀
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I think the beautiful thing about such statements is it takes work to improve them
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Common Sense at its most succinct.
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I have my days
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I was thinking with these type of cryptic, but profound, comments, you might be asked to provide a guest post by Colorstorm.
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You know I am unable to understand most of what CS says. I think he never intends to be understood
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But what genuinely puzzles me is the cheer squad he has developed that applaud all the incomprehensible drivel he writes. There must be a parallel universe at work and they are in the version where what he writes makes sense, certainly we are not in that universe.
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It is a universe where Cs is the prefect in charge of an asylum.
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As a kid, I used to lie on my back and try to imagine infinity. It was like getting high.
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I think you had an eventful childhood
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Yes, but most of the events were in my head. 🙂
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That I think is the best place to have events
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This seems like word play to me. I don’t find it persuasive.
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Maybe existence/ something is a brute fact.
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As I see it, your “brute fact” statement boils down to, “Why? Because.” Not particularly informative.
I think, “we don’t know” is more accurate. And though I too wonder, and would like to know, I don’t presume to think we should be given the answer, as many religious people do.
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How I see it is for example what is the cause of the universe and one answers the universe is, it is its explanation. This could be true or false because it is beyond the limit of experience and yes, I don’t know is the more correct answer
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To be (more) blunt, I’m saying it’s not an explanation, it’s a dodge.
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Fair enough.
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rata:
But perhaps your insistence on an “answer” is in itself merely an artifact of human mentality? Why must the universe have a “cause” because human mental processes are based on locally relevant and valid sense of causality?
Maybe the universe does not exist to provide answers to all of our questions?
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In the divine lyrical prose of drum god Neil Peart:
Why are we here?
Because we’re here
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones
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And I don’t think this is a dodge. It is inexplicable
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because there need not be explanations for eveything! Beautiful!
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