I simply see that the snake is actually just a rope. — OmniscientNihilist
It’s not so much talking about metaphysics as it’s thinking about it — aRealidealist
Define something that doesn't exist? Doing so would only create more confusion.
Only something exists, and it is eternal and omnipresent and unchanging. If a vacuum was truly nothing you would not even be able to see or detect it in any way. Zero is a relative term, and those only exist in the mind for pragmatic purposes. — OmniscientNihilist
Can the singularity be it's own causality without making it spiritual? — Gregory
"[So if there is nothing outside the universe,] there is nothing then to make it contingent and it would be necessary."
— Gregory
B[ut] there is also nothing to make it necessary... — Banno
↪Gregory First cause arguments are all flawed because they predicate something coming from nothing. If causation exists it must therefore be eternal. Nothing real can ever begin. Motion cannot just start up from nothing. — OmniscientNihilist
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