Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 26, 2011, 21:41 (4716 days ago) @ xeno6696

"Why is there anything?" puts your mind on objects--but its much harder to think about nothing. Hence why I think its converse is a question that holds much more power.

You pushed me so I'll look back at this. It is interesting but I get the impression hat I always look at the positive side of life, and you the negative.

In a theological sense, thinking about nothing forces you to consider your place in a universe that suddenly seems more special. It forces you to consider that you too, could be nothing and in fact, it was much more likely that you should have been nothing.

I'm here, and I rejoice in it. Somehow it is arranged that I am here and I'd like to know why. I would never have known anything if I were nothing.

That website I posted has made me more willing than ever in life to agree with the assertion that there must be something absolutely eternal about our universe. I'm with you, that the intelligent part seems almost absurd. But I think we align closely on this point.

Yes, there is something that is 'absolutely eternal' about this universe. Is it the material universe or the energy that creates the material universe. I'm back to my philosophy prof: matter is energy on the outside and mind is energy on the inside. Only through intelligence can we have the organization of laws governing this reality. Only an intelligence can create the super-efficient DNA code from as perfect four bases.

Your serve.....