Why is there something rather than nothing? (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:25 (4973 days ago) @ dhw

By all means let us agree to disagree on which of these views makes more sense, but drop your grammatical objections to Leibniz's question. It's all very well living for conflict, but he who lives by the word shall die by the word.-Have you ever studied the roots of the word "exist?"-Ex, meaning "outside of," and sistere meaning "to stand."-"To stand outside of." If I declare I exist, that I am not "nothing," what do I "stand outside of?" Do we have any accurate terms even or existence?-How different is this from cosmology?

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"