marsmellow
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There is no reason why. We don't need a reason.
Something does exist. Not for any reason. It just does.
Something does exist. Not for any reason. It just does.
yer this is waht ive thought for ages. before the univers there was nothingness but what created nothingness. the only simple easy question for that is "god" not a christian god but some sort of higer power
i really cant get to drips with it. i think its just mind boggling. there are constant answers im trying to find but havent found anything exciting yet . good thread tho ill keep looking and adding
The rose is without why, she blooms because she blooms...
Isn't that point of view kind of intellectually stultifying? If man had first looked up at the heavens, and seen the raw glory of existence, and been perfectly content to just accept that everything was like this and didn't need a reason, we wouldn't have got very far.There is no reason why. We don't need a reason.
Something does exist. Not for any reason. It just does.
If that man stop bouncing on his head, stood on a corner and looked to the opposite corner, would it appear higher or lower than him?
There cannot be nothing without something, one is a framework for the other - I feel I've said this a thousand times
the realization that everything and nothing are one
If there is another thread like this, please direct me to it. There needs to be a Google search feature on BL search, some other forums have it, I'm not sure if it costs money though...
Why did anything ever exist in the first place? If your a big banger type, why were the materials (for lack of a better term) ever there for the universe to happen? Why is there something, when there could be nothing?
I think they are the same thing, just two different sides of the same coin.
Peter van Inwagen has devised a probabilistic proof that the existence of something is infinitely more likely than nothingness. The argument rests on the concept of possible worlds, and on the principle of identity of indiscernables, which was formulated by Liebniz. The principle is that any two things that have all the same properties are, in fact, the same thing; if two things are completely identical qualitatively and relationally, then they are numerically identical.
Now, given that any two possible worlds that have identical properties are actually the same possible world, there is only one possible world in which nothing exists. However, there are a huge number, even an infinite number, of possible worlds in which something does exist. Thus, for any world, the chances of it containing nothing are infinitesimal, and the chance of it containing something almost certain.