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Re:Nothingness (2017) by jedimind on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:37AM (#23915066)
It's actually just 1., because 2. just rerolls the question, what caused that something to begin existing?
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Re:Nothingness (2017) by naringas on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:41AM (#23917505)
but why should it be a matter of causing something to begin exising? maybe it's also about not preventing anything from existing?
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Re:Nothingness (2017) by jedimind on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:00PM (#23919055)
Because it violates the principal of causality ( it also violates common sense, ex nihilo nihil fit).
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