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A general topic on "what started it all..."
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RE: A general topic on "what started it all..."
July 10, 2009 at 5:00 am
Dharan Wrote:I cant yet see how you have addressed the question as to why something exists. Are you suggesting something must exist to satisfy its polar relationship to nothing (which cant exist)?

Something can't have a polar relationship with nothing because 'something' exists and 'nothing' is simply an intellectual construct or an idea.

Why have we got something and not nothing? Because we can't have nothing and we also can't have 'something' not existing.

But this still doesn't really answer the question. Perhaps it's unanswerable Dodgy

I suspect it's all wrapped up with time. Without time, 'something' can't have existed, exist or continue to exist. Perhaps time is the canvas that 'something' needs. On the other hand, without 'something' then time has no meaning either.

Perhaps it's all to do with the observer. Does 'something' really exist if there is no-one to observe it?

Solipsism, here I come again Confusedhock:
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A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Dharan - July 10, 2009 at 2:02 am
RE: A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Ryft - July 21, 2009 at 10:53 pm
RE: A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Ryft - July 23, 2009 at 12:57 am
RE: A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Ryft - July 23, 2009 at 11:11 pm
RE: A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Darwinian - July 10, 2009 at 5:00 am
RE: A general topic on "what started it all..." - by Ryft - August 3, 2009 at 12:00 am

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