Why Does Anything exist at all?

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Why Does Anything Exist At All?

 
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_Droopy
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Why Does Anything exist at all?

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Leftists take choice #1
Moderates choose any 3
Conservatives be specific
Postmodernists ignore the question
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us

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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

Post by _MrStakhanovite »

Seems the forum still won't allow voting, but I'd vote "Because there isn't nothing".
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

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MrStakhanovite wrote:Seems the forum still won't allow voting, but I'd vote "Because there isn't nothing".



Odd. The last poll didn't work either. Seems to be something wrong since the board was given a work over.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us

- President Ezra Taft Benson


I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

- Thomas Sowell
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

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Are you demanding that all conservatives be specific or are you suggesting that they generally tend to be specific in their answers to questions like this?
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

Post by _Runtu »

Droopy wrote:Odd. The last poll didn't work either. Seems to be something wrong since the board was given a work over.


Maybe it's just that the new software recognizes pointless polls.
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

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Dammit, Zeezrom, you interrupted a dialog between Droopy (He Whose Return Was Foretold) and Mr S.! This could have been ... interesting.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
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That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

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Chap wrote:Dammit, Zeezrom, you interrupted a dialog between Droopy (He Whose Return Was Foretold) and Mr S.! This could have been ... interesting.

I stalk Stak like Javert on Jean.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

The Holy Sacrament.
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

Post by _MrStakhanovite »

zeezrom wrote:I stalk Stak like Javert on Jean.


So does Chap.
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

Post by _Chap »

MrStakhanovite wrote:
zeezrom wrote:I stalk Stak like Javert on Jean.


So does Chap.


No I don't ...

Oh damn.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Re: Why Does Anything exist at all?

Post by _Droopy »

zeezrom wrote:Are you demanding that all conservatives be specific or are you suggesting that they generally tend to be specific in their answers to questions like this?



Since they are usually intellectually substantive and have a clear, coherent worldview, specificity and clarity comes much more easily.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us

- President Ezra Taft Benson


I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

- Thomas Sowell
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