In a message dated 03/11/2004 08:29:40 GMT Standard Time,
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Kenneth called out from the desert:
> "Why is there anything at all? Why, rather, is there not nothing?"
Indeed, Ken'th, this is the most beguiling question that screams its silent
scream whenever any real thinking takes place whether the question is
addressed or not.
Jud:
People can scream their heads off as much as they like. Screaming gets one
nowhere.
The answer to the question: "Why is there anything at all? Why, rather, is
there not nothing?" is
as obvious as the nose on your face. There HAS to be something, because
*nothing* does not and cannot exist."
Only the religious and other types of trannies believe in *nothing,* because
their desert God was supposed to have created the earth and everything on it
out of *nothing.* Well *God* didn't NEED to create the earth out of
*nothing,* because *something* ALWAYS existed and always will. Nothing has NEVER
existed and never will. If *God* DID make the earth out of *nothing* then he was
pretty stupid - for there was lots of *ready-to-hand nothing strewn about
the universe billions of years before the gaseous matter which became our
planet came together and cooled down and gradually solidified
Michael:
What does it mean -- to be? rather than -- not to be?
Jud:
It doesn't MEAN anything. It is the simple awareness of the fact that
something exists.
Something cannot NOT exist - so there is no ontological alternative to the
fact that X exists as X.
Michael:
[The question: "Why is there anything at all? Why, rather, is there not
nothing?"] " is imminent and
immanent, shivering on the brink, whenever a being is present, taken for
granted as be-ing the being that it is. Taken for granted: what a tissue of
possibilities for thinking this innocent phrase contains; what grants?"
Jud:
The question: "Why is there anything at all? Why, rather, is there not
nothing?"] " is imminent and immanent, shivering on the brink, only for the
religious - for Bushites and Baptists and Blairites and Shiites and other
transcendentalists who have faith in the voodoo of *Possibility.* The concept of
*Possibility* is a nonsense. The preconditions for any entitic event are
already existing before any event happens. The notion of *possibility* is only the
inadequate ideational unawareness of humans as to the nature of these
antecedal existential modalities.
Objects are NOT *taken for granted* - objects are *taken as existing,* for
plainly to do the opposite, and to take non-existing objects as existing, [or
as non-existing] would be sheer lunacy.
Regards,
Jud
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