03 Mar '07 17:40>
Yet another way of thinking about nothing would be this...
We know that something has happened and/or that existence exists. So what if we imagine an alternative scenario? Let's say instead of existence ----drum roll-----non-existence. Nothing happens at all. No anything.
Was/Is this scenario really a possibility? Was it inevitable that existence would exist? Or was it just likely? Maybe you think that existence managed to force itself into existence against all the odds? Or maybe non-existence will eventually win and re-instate everything back to it's true non-existent "state"? Perhaps , existence has won the final battle and will now existence always permanently?
Personally , I think the most likely scenario is that existence has always existed or is permanent and non-existence never really gets a look in at all.
Anyway , I promised eatmybishop that I would do another thread. This is kind of the nothing-o-tron from the other end. This way of looking at nothing is trying to imagine ..."what if NOTHING had ever been".
I would be interested to hear from the Something from Nothingers what they feel the basic probability was that existence would exist from zilch (and why)?
We know that something has happened and/or that existence exists. So what if we imagine an alternative scenario? Let's say instead of existence ----drum roll-----non-existence. Nothing happens at all. No anything.
Was/Is this scenario really a possibility? Was it inevitable that existence would exist? Or was it just likely? Maybe you think that existence managed to force itself into existence against all the odds? Or maybe non-existence will eventually win and re-instate everything back to it's true non-existent "state"? Perhaps , existence has won the final battle and will now existence always permanently?
Personally , I think the most likely scenario is that existence has always existed or is permanent and non-existence never really gets a look in at all.
Anyway , I promised eatmybishop that I would do another thread. This is kind of the nothing-o-tron from the other end. This way of looking at nothing is trying to imagine ..."what if NOTHING had ever been".
I would be interested to hear from the Something from Nothingers what they feel the basic probability was that existence would exist from zilch (and why)?