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Posted 04/19/03 - 03:49 AM:	#11
I think you can immagine 0-space 0-mass 0-volume on the scale measurable to humans, but throw in instability and potentuality then call it nothing when teaching it to Elementary School kids.

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Posted 04/19/03 - 04:11 AM:	#12
I am sorry, but I do not know the word potentuality, dictionary.com doesn't either? Now you mention instability when talking about 'nothing', this seems to me a nonsense since if there was truly nothing, then with what reference is it instable, what would happen if nothing became unstable, would nothing collapse in on nothing causing nothing to go flying nowhere at no speed relative to no space in no time?
Without beginning or end, not created nor started, existing always, forever. Infinite, unmeasurable and therefore unimaginable, does this mean that infinity is a religious belief?

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Posted 04/19/03 - 04:18 AM:	#13
potentiality(sp?) Yeah thay was my point. The same way Amarchism still has its leaders, then so would nothing still have a few "things"

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Posted 04/19/03 - 05:47 AM:	#14
OK cool, that would make sense.
Without beginning or end, not created nor started, existing always, forever. Infinite, unmeasurable and therefore unimaginable, does this mean that infinity is a religious belief?

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Posted 04/19/03 - 06:19 AM:	#15
We are the opposite of the nothing which is therefore something. We are a reflection in the cosmic mirror which in turn reflects again and again to nothing then something then nothing like the binary code of a computer.

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Posted 04/19/03 - 11:40 AM:	#16
First...Prove to us that there is something. Sure you might say, "I'm typing on a kerboard right now," or, "I'm petting my dog." I don't want to sound like some Matrix freak, but how do you know that it is there?

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Posted 04/19/03 - 01:25 PM:	#17
the "something" we are refering to does not have to be the existance of the external world. We do not have to prove this keyboard exists at all, i kno i exist and THAT is something and NOT nothing.

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Posted 04/21/03 - 10:43 AM:	#18
Originally posted by The Apologist I had always thought that the most obvious and simple answer is that nothingness is not the "default" state, as the question implicitly assumes. Perhaps the question does because Occam's Razor does. We have learned to rely on an explanation system in which the existance of more entities demands a greater burden of proof.

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Posted 04/21/03 - 12:02 PM:	#19
I think therefore I am lol
Without beginning or end, not created nor started, existing always, forever. Infinite, unmeasurable and therefore unimaginable, does this mean that infinity is a religious belief?

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Posted 04/21/03 - 12:04 PM:	#20
I think about thinking, but I don't know about knowing :sick:

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