Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 01:09 (4617 days ago) @ xeno6696

The key difference as I understand it, is that we seem to have radically different views on the notion of "nonexistence." 
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> > Read this philosopher. Nothing as a philosophic concept.
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> He makes identical mistakes as you do:-He and I are wrong and you are right. Sorry. he is an atheist philosopher who makes good sense to me. 
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> "I can consistently imagine that nothing at all ever existed.
>> We're going to continue to drive dhw batty, but theologically speaking, the universe == God. We already agreed to that!
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> Actually Krauss gets it wrong too. Nothing is nonexistence. All that talk of quantum field theory... no, sorry. That post, while supposing to discuss nothing, manages to discuss everything but.-I agree with both these statements. The only place we disagree is about the word nothing as a concept. I agree that we disagree here. Let's drop it.