The ONLY question
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Misanthrope
Latin, NOT Mexican.
How philosophic of you. I expect nothing less
Ill ask you this: Why do we need to care about things like that?
Is not as deep as your question but im shure you have pretty of either brilliant or stupid ideas about it and i will like to see them
Ill ask you this: Why do we need to care about things like that?
Is not as deep as your question but im shure you have pretty of either brilliant or stupid ideas about it and i will like to see them
Sadistik
Let me die in solitude...
Theres the old Thomas Aquinus argument of "From nothing comes nothing", so maybe since nothing breeds nothing, something HAD to exist? Shit I'm not gonna sleep for a week. Thanks Satori!
mindflesh
Rainbow Satan Overflow
There are both "something" and "nothing".
Next time ask something harder. (Edit: or nothing at all 
)
Cheers
Next time ask something harder. (Edit: or nothing at all
)Cheers
MetalManCPA
Papa Opeth
Maybe our definitions are screwed up - and it's all nothing anyways.
What is something? What your senses perceive?
A question that can't be answered - because there is no answer for nothing
I'm now confused
What is something? What your senses perceive?
A question that can't be answered - because there is no answer for nothing
I'm now confused
Misanthrope: Why do we need to care about things like that?
Brain candy? It's not needed, but taste good once and a while? I don't know. I'm wondering if Satori will elaborate on what he thinks.
"With eyes of fire,
Once unlit but now alive."
Brain candy? It's not needed, but taste good once and a while? I don't know. I'm wondering if Satori will elaborate on what he thinks.
"With eyes of fire,
Once unlit but now alive."
i sort of agree
anyway if theres nothing then there cant be something. and something wont want to do nothing, as its boring and dull to do nothing, and so something is more logical as Mr. Spock might say, HOWEVER (captain, as in Kirk) something can be painful and hurtful although nothing has neither nothing to give, or something not to give.
(no, i dont understand it either)
MetalManCPA
Papa Opeth
lumen
CKMS supporter
I wonder about the same thing.
I can fairly easily imagine how things got going once SOMETHING existed. But where the heck did this thing come from? I just can't get past this point. I can almost accept the idea that the universe exists just so that there isn't just nothing. But I don't understand how the line between nothing and something was crossed. Like there had to be some sort of outside influence or a lead up to things being. But that negates the possibility of nothingness, or else forces to you figure out why that outside influence came about. I'm not sure I'm making sense anymore.
Someone please tell me how SOMETHING can come out of NOTHING?!?
I can fairly easily imagine how things got going once SOMETHING existed. But where the heck did this thing come from? I just can't get past this point. I can almost accept the idea that the universe exists just so that there isn't just nothing. But I don't understand how the line between nothing and something was crossed. Like there had to be some sort of outside influence or a lead up to things being. But that negates the possibility of nothingness, or else forces to you figure out why that outside influence came about. I'm not sure I'm making sense anymore.
Someone please tell me how SOMETHING can come out of NOTHING?!?
Misanthrope
Latin, NOT Mexican.
well ok mr. wiseguy ill reform my question to make more sence.
IF we care about such things WHY do we care?
IF we care about such things WHY do we care?
Belial
Rainbow Demon
In this case it's the question that's the problem, not the complete lack of an answer.
Here's an interesting way of looking at it:
Something/nothing aren't mutually exclusive or opposite but instead different expressions of a single phenomenon.
It is commonly regarded that in the formation of our universe it was not something coming out of nothing, but somethingness and nothingness coming into being at the same time like a matter/anti-matter explosion or something. But where did the somethingness and nothingness come from in the first place? Fucked if I know, hehe.
At any rate, this question has no answer, which is why I asked it. In theoretical physics terms it is the ONLY question for which an answer has never been posed. Interesting stuff (if you're bored enough, and right now I happen to be
)Satori
How thoughful of you, hehehe.
I don't know why everyone else cares but I think I have an idea: Because humans are very curious primates, evolution has instilled in us an inherent need to understand and explain the external world as a mechanism of survival and self-propogation.
Satori
lumen
CKMS supporter
Doesn't matter to me whether the the something and nothing happened at the same time, or one came from the other. Either way, this question you've iterated is the one I can't get my head around, and it bugs the hell out of me.
Yea, I find it very annoying too. I often find myself asking this question in the few seconds immediately after I wake up from a long sleep and I am shocked to discover that I am actually conscious and aware. I just find it completely fucking bizarre that anything exists at all, it seems totally impossible to me and yet there it is.
Weird. Reality and the fact that anything exists is so fucking odd!!!
I'm glad you could relate to my confusion/torment in regard to this question, cheers,
Satori
