RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 24, 2016 at 7:14 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2016 at 7:21 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 24, 2016 at 12:58 am)Soldat Du Christ Wrote: Of course it predates everything, it is etched in all our hearts.
By godless natural selection and its name is empathy.
It doesn't predate everything. Nothing predates everything. Everything=the totality of all things. Everything= every thing. Every thing=existence. Existence is eternal, mindless, existent by definition, prior to the universe (unless we define that which existed before the universe to also be part of the universe... IOW if we define "the universe" to ultimately have no beginning and the big bang was its expansion rather than beginning.... then if "the universe"= existence then it has always existed) and nothing existed before it or before time ("before time" makes no sense). It's all matter and anti-matter or other kinds of matter or even if it's non-matter it's something (if you distinguish between physical and material things and can think there are things that are non-matter, for example) and if it's not it's not only nothing but there is no 'it' to be nothing (there can't be. Nothing can't be. Being nothing= not being something=nonexistence=absence) because that's what nothing is, absence rather than presence. And absence can never be presence. Something has always existed... otherwise it's not something.
