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anglagard
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Message 24 of 51 (678873)
11-11-2012 1:02 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by ICANT
11-10-2012 9:36 PM


Re: Philosophical jabberwocky
ICANT writes:
Without existence there would be no atoms that makes up matter to construct it out of.
But where would the universe you are talking about begin to exist, if there was a state of non-existence.?
But if a universe existed before the physical laws can be defined it would still be subject to those physical laws.
The universe we live in obeyed what we call the physical laws for billions of years before man defined them.
First, God bless you as well ICANT.
Second, I have this feeling that the human mind, being so tied up with the idea of cause and effect, is at the moment insufficiently endowed to provide an answer.
What happened prior to the singularity is pretty much the same question as who were God's parents.
Perhaps the problem is not in the stars, but rather in ourselves, Horatio.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

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