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>>15296415
This is not answerable right now, may never be answerable, and anyone who purports to have an answer is lying to you.
There IS an answer, and no one knows it. That's the end of it.

>>15296415
Heidegger?

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>>15296415
The Bible. It's sinple, really.

The Platonists were on to something as well.

An Inquiry Into the Good, Kitaro Nishida

Christianity

If there weren't something, you wouldn't be able to ask this question.
Retroactively refuted.

>>15296477
What if I'm nothing and not actually asking the question?

There's one chance of being nothing. But there are many more possible somethings

It’s a religious question more so than a scientific or even philosophical one. We genuinely just don’t know enough. We don’t even know if there’s anything beyond the material, and even if we did know about the non-material, who says that would answer anything?

>>15296531
Works for me

>>15296415
this can't ever be known

>>15296415
Parmenides.

>>15296415
The answer is that there is no proof something ever existed since everything will become nothing eventually. So to answer your question, there's nothing and there's never been any proof that there's ever been something, fucking retard.

>>15296415
it's not nothing though, it's some white

>>15296415
To me it doesn't matter. You still have to deal w the physics and the question might be as nonsensical as 'what is the speed of dark' or 'how much does cold weigh'

>>15297067
/thread

>>15296415
Because God Is.

Why am I a man rather than a rock? Sometimes its just the way things are and you need to stop asking such dumb questions.

>>15296415
Meaningless question.

>>15297071
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>>15297137
Seethe harder

>>15297125
mentation btfo

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>>15296415
The real question is why is there something rather than everything/ one thing.

>>15296415
nothing has not been proven. therefore, half of this question is completely unfounded as far as actual evidence goes.

descartes - meditations on first philosophy

>>15298069
>nothing has not been proven.
so you're saying nothing could be nothing?

>>15296415
If the universe is so big why won't it fight me?

>>15296415
Don't look to philosophy look to cosmology for your answer.

>>15297067
pretty much

>>15297051
This. People who say that we don't know "yet" as if we ever can know aren't fully understanding the question. Brainlets will answer that "the Big Bang created everything and that's why we're here", not understanding that every origin of the universe must itself have an origin, and that therefore the mystery is infinite and completely unknowable.

>>15298279
>muh infinite regress
Ironic you call others brainlet

>>15296435
fpbp

>>15296415

Obviously this is a big question. Equally obviously we don't have any good answer.

I think it's interesting to ask a meta-question:

*Do you think it's possible that we could ever know the answer to this question without being fundamentally different beings from what we are now?"

If you answer "no" then you should probably stop worrying about the first question.

>>15297067
This desu
Nothing, by definition, doesn't exist

Are you *sure* there's something, and that this all isn't nothing after all?

How certain are you?

>>15296435
>This is not answerable right now
its called God, bitch

>>15296415
stoic pyro-genesis was a pretty good formulation till dark energy screwed it up

>>15297051
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>>15297125
You can't just reject a question without work.
You need to engage in explaining, why the question is meaningless or doesn't matter, philosophically

>>15296441
Heidegger is more like "what do you mean by ""is""?"

>>15296415
Nothing might quite literally mean nothing

>>15296460
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>>15298621

But why does God exist rather than not exist?

>>15296415
If there was nothing, it could not ponder itself
Therefore, there must be something

>turtles all the way down

Terence McKenna probably has the best explanation boiled down from the Tao te Ching about how death and life are procesionally irremovable from each other because they are fundamental parts of the same process like breathing in and out

>>15298636
Because if there is an answer it's outside being. And the absolute probably doesn't care about petty questions.

>>15298636
I would like you to first explain why this question has any meaning or matters, philosophically.

>>15296415
Martin Heidegger.