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Fifty Shades of Nothing (The Mystery of Existence - Why is There Anything at all?)
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| July 24, 2013
| Edward Feser
Posted on 07/24/2013 2:36:36 PM PDT by NYer
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:36:36 PM PDT
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NYer
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:37:10 PM PDT
by
NYer
( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
To: NYer
It had to be someplace. Here is just as good as anywhere..............
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:39:39 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: NYer
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:40:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: NYer
I recently read the Laslie/Kuhn book; found it not very satisfying. After all, if the sudden appearance of mass and energy can be explained by somewhat arcane rules of quantum mechanics, then who wrote those rules?
TC
To: NYer
Summation.
Infinite time is impossible to explain.
The beginning of time is impossible to explain, except as an isolated finite observer.
Infinite existance of matter is impossible to explain.
The creation of energy or matter from nothing is impossible to explain.
That is the unanswerable paradox of our universe.
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:47:18 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: NYer
I’m pretty sure that I’m the only real thing, and the rest of you are just here for my entertainment.
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:54:50 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
If that’s the case, I’m outta here!
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:58:11 PM PDT
by
Misterioso
(The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.)
To: NYer
(The Mystery of Existence - Why is There Anything at all?) This is easy. Something has to exist so my first ex-mother-in-law would have something to bitch about...........not very scientific but that's the truth, flrp
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posted on
07/24/2013 2:58:15 PM PDT
by
varon
(Down with tyranny)
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:00:15 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: NYer
Bookmarking something about nothing.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:06:57 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: NYer
Why is There Anything at all?Any child could answer that question: "Because."
To: xp38
You take that back! I am not sloppy! I pick up after myself all the time.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:14:30 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: NYer
All this is just a way of trying to disprove Aquinas who argued that there must be an unmoved mover, an uncaused cause.
Some scientists really want us to believe that something can arise spontaneously from nothing.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:18:48 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(If I Pi$$ed off just one liberal today my mission has been accomplished.)
To: NYer
It’s your world—I’m just in it.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:20:59 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: NYer
There is SOMETHING because there IS something. I am much more interested in the nature of existence than I am how it got here and however it got here is a question that can only be answered by science and not by mysticism in my opinion.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:21:05 PM PDT
by
albionin
To: Misterioso
Please bring me back a cheeseburger. Oh, and some of those smoking sardines.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:24:44 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: NYer
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:27:14 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
To: SampleMan
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:27:55 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
To: blueunicorn6
Meh. You’re just text-shaped patterns of light on a virtual screen I perceive because the mad scientist manipulates my brain in a vat for amusement.
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posted on
07/24/2013 3:30:13 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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