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Why does anything at all exist?

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Why does anything at all exist?
Mister Agenda Offline Donators
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 12:08 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.

Why wouldn't it?
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 12:12 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 11:07 am)whateverist Wrote: Why questions seem to make the most sense when applied to other people's motives. When they're applied to the physical world, "why" can be replaced with "how". When a why question is applied to everything, there is simply no vantage point from which the question can be answered. The answer isn't the problem, the question is.

Well said.

(March 13, 2014 at 12:08 pm)max-greece Wrote: Un-fucking-believeable.

I just opened my email and there was an update from Youtube on the latest videos I should watch. What was the first recommendation?




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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 12:15 pm (This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 12:20 pm by CleverCalvert.)
I just simply think they don't have all the evidence yet. Sure the theory is that nothingness is unstable but on the scale of quantum physics we don't have the technology to see what's really going on. Yet!
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 1:29 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 12:08 pm)max-greece Wrote: Un-fucking-believeable.

I just opened my email and there was an update from Youtube on the latest videos I should watch. What was the first recommendation?




A synchronicity!
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 2:50 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 1:29 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: A synchronicity!

Good album.
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#36
RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 3:20 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.

Why is maybe a poor word to use because it means "For what reason". You'd have to demonstrate first that there needs to be a reason.

I'm not sure it's a question that's answerable, despite many people trying.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 5:19 pm
(March 13, 2014 at 3:20 pm)FreeTony Wrote:
(March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.

Why is maybe a poor word to use because it means "For what reason". You'd have to demonstrate first that there needs to be a reason.

I'm not sure it's a question that's answerable, despite many people trying.

Which is just what you would expect if there IS no reason.
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#38
RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 5:24 pm
For me the question that I find harder to answer is, how can everything not exist.
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#39
RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 14, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Quote:Why does anything at all exist?

Shit happens.



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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 14, 2014 at 3:40 pm (This post was last modified: March 14, 2014 at 3:41 pm by LastPoet.)
(March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.

I don't know, I'm quite busy with sustaining my existence to care about such futile question. Good luck on your investigation...
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