Why is there something rather than nothing? (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 15:51 (4973 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Have you ever studied the roots of the word "exist?"
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> > Ex, meaning "outside of," and sistere meaning "to stand."
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> > "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 for existence?
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> My collegiate dictionary uses the latin meaning: 'to come into being' as its first explanation of the term. And that makes perfect sense. I stand within my reality as well as outside of it.-We have far too much reliance on dictionaries here, lol. We can always shift definitions to avoid hard questions.-I think I'm going to start posting Koans for you and dhw... all my attempts at a frame shift have been futile...-I'm learning that eastern thought undestands reality in terms of what I would call "the superposition." -I'll think of something... hopefully you guys won't write it off as claptrap...

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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.\"