Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, December 26, 2011, 20:39 (4717 days ago) @ David Turell

Back to the 'same old'. I am with the guys who tout First Cause.

It's never a great idea to posit more than you can explain.

It was good enough for the Greeks.

Not for Heraclitus or Demetrius the Cynic.

You know more Greeks than I do. And a Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you too, David!

I have to say though... you've chosen to go down a much more boring path of my conversation in here than in the one where I discuss my willingness to accept the infinite...

PS.
In retrospect, both Greek names I mentioned here don't really fit. I was more looking for a name like Agrippa. (Heraclitus began Process philosophy, and Demetrius didn't really have much to say about "first cause." I was trying to think of Cynic as in a school that rejected knowledge as real. But remember that even Aristotle must be read with Plato to gain full appreciation of the ideas.

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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.\"