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Anyone here knows? I'm looking for an answer to this
By who?forced
Why thohappened
Explaintechnically
Humans have been asking this for thousands of years, we still don't know.Why tho
Nothing can't exist because nothing is by definition something. It's a paradox created by humans. That's why there's something instead of nothing, because nothing isn't real.Explain
No, it's by definition the opposite of something. The absense of content.nothing is by definition something
No one here knows, no one anywhere knows. That being said I enjoy Mainlander's theory that the universe is the rotting body of god.Anyone here knows? I'm looking for an answer to this
Interesting idearotting body of god
No, I just realized itCan there be nothing without something?
Sure.I think i understand now. Something and Nothing depend on each other to exist. Something must have content in order to exist. The nature of nothing is the absense of content. Therefore Nothing can't exist. But by not existing, it exists. Nothing can only exist if there is something else in existence, because if there was not something else, nothing would exist in existence, and nothing cannot exist, it would lead to paradox
I cant stand his books, hes too boringRene Guenon
There is no such thing as nothing alone. The fact that nothing is possible alone makes it possible that nothing is forbidden. Thus, nothingness, by itself, forbids itself and requires that it be absent. So something must always exist so that nothingness is possible.
I will, thankstry Schuon
Interesting ideaNothigness forbids itself
What do you mean by that?relativity
What do you mean by that?
That is a great point. Thanks for the answer, I will read the essay sooninfinity in itself is also absolute and not relative
nothing is nothing.Because there's no such thing as nothing. Nothing as a concept technically cant exist.![]()
The absence of content is something, is what I’m getting at.No, it's by definition the opposite of something. The absense of content.
high IQGood opportunity to whip out Schuon:
"The Contradiction of Relativism" - an essay by Frithjof Schuon
This is the complete text of "The Contradiction of Relativism", an essay by Frithjof Schuon, which appeared in the the journal "Studies in Comparative Religion", 1973 Spring edition (Vol. 7, No. 2)www.studiesincomparativereligion.com
When we say something is relative or contingent we mean that this something owns its existence on something else, meaning, the object in question is neither absolute nor universal.
Relativity, which is what moderns believe, is inherently contradictory though because relativity, by definition, cannot be absolute, and you cannot have an "infinite" chain of contingencies (read: infinite regress) because infinity in itself is also absolute and not relative. Therefore, the only "logical" alternative is a belief in an absolute and universal existence from which relative existence is derived in the first place.
See, the way moderns conceive reality is that they believe everything is the result of a continuation chain of contingencies, to the point they don't actually believe there's such a thing as being, but only "becoming". Contrary to this there is the view of traditional metaphysics, which state that everything as its origin in an absolute being (which is then being as such, being and of itself) from which relativity proceeds downwards to states that are more and more relative, this hierarchical process being referred to by Guenon as the "great chain of being".
BTW, Plato's cave is a representation of the same idea:
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The shadows projected on the wall are the relative entities that make up continence existence, the people fixated on those empty projections being the people stuck in relativity (I.E., normies, NPCs etc).
The shapes used to project those shadows are the "forms" and "archetypes", but outside this cave, which represents relative existence, there is a realm which is that of absolute existence, which is infinite and it's the only true "reality", where as the world of the cave is all an illusion, as the Hindu argue.
Notice how in this analogy relative existences reaches a limit but it never goes as far as fading into an actual nothingness, because that is impossible, for "no thing" cannot, by definition, be a thing.
Yeah ive read his essay What is Metaphysics which discusses the question of nothing yesterday. Great readHeidegger
anyone else think the big bang theory is a load of bullshit