Ontology is confusing, isn't it? Bradley
Why does anything exist at all?
by logansrun 52 Replies latest jw friends
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Elsewhere
Anyone who claims to know for sure is pulling your leg.
We are here.
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Leolaia
logansrun, here is a quote from Stephen Hawking:
There are something like ten million million million million million million million million million million million million million million (1 with eighty [five] zeroes after it) particles in the region of the universe that we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that, in quantum theory, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. But that just raises the question of where the energy came from. The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity. Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart, because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together. Thus, in a sense, the gravitational field has negative energy. In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero. (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time [1988])
For more information, read there two webpages. It's a start:
http://home.flash.net/~csmith0/bigbang.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_vuletic/vacuum.htmlLeolaia
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joannadandy
I often wonder why my belly button lint is always blue, even if I am wearing tan or black pants. It haunts me.
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Segg
Sometimes I like to think that we all ARE God. Maybe God got bored one day and turned himself into the universe. He is playing hide and seek with himself. They say if you reach enlightenment through meditation you realize that we are all everyone and everything.
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Satanus
A few books have been written on the concept of a conscious universe. In this scenareo, a blip of consciousness happened randomly in the void. Of course, this blip, once it came into existence, did not want to cease existence/die, and so, everything else followed.
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dh
i think about it every day all my life too. my general feeling is that things exist for the sake of it, a whim, as meaningful as we want to tell ourselves it is, or as pointless, much like playing for the sake of playing. i always dreamed what it would be like to be born with no senses at all, no way to input data or form a perception, just in your own mind you were all that you knew, what would be real and what wouldn't, would anything exist? the matrix went into something similar, does it exist to you if you can't sense it, can it make up part of your reality if you don't know it's there?
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MegaDude
Bradley,
There is no answer to your question because there is no data to support a credible answer. To know the answer you'd have to be God, or know intimately what the process is that created this whole reality.
But I wonder about that question too, and I tend to go with my gut instinct based on what knowledge I have and experiences I've had.
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betweenworlds
LMAO @ Joanna
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JamesThomas
WHY? There is no answer that will satisfy the mind because the mind perceives from a point of illusion or falsehood. The whole thing is bogus. The consciousness which identifies itself as the mind -- is not the mind. So, the mind is interpreting all that it perceives through the lens of false identity. We are looking through a glass darkly. Thus, no question can ever be answered truly, as that which is asking the question is a lie to begin with. The question that MUST be answered first -- before we can truly ask or know anything else, is: Who am I? Really? Once we truly know Who/What we are, then we can ask other questions, because we will be asking from a foundation of Truth; and perception will be True. But then.......there may not be any more questions. j