Madbones wrote:
Whats before life?
i am happiest with the concept that time had no beginning (unlike current speculation). if time "started" at some "point in time", then there must have been an infinite "period" (for want of a better word which is "time") previous to the beginning of time. what happened five seconds before the big bang? apparently there was no "5 seconds" before the big bang.
before and after we are alive, we are not in existence, so after we die, we are dead forever. but we were dead forever before we were born as well.
even if there is a beginning of time (which i doubt), then there was no time before that, and so it is still true that the line of time that extends behind you before your birth is forever long due to the fact that there is zero to be beheld prior to the beginning of time.
it is like saying "time did not exist
forever....
before it started to exist".
if i went though "forever" being "dead" before i was born, then my lack of inclusion in it is the reason i felt no duration before i was born.
likewise, after i die, i will be dead forever and will feel no duration because "i" (my consciousness) am not included in the passage of the universe.
will i reawaken? can eternal obliviousness end with any thing else than an awakening?
Madbones wrote:
How can nothing be logical?
"nothing" means "no thing" obviously. anything that exists is a "thing", and so "no thing" can not be "any thing".
if "no thing" is not "any thing", then "nothing" does not exist, because all things that exist are "things".
logic can not quantify empty voids. "nothing" is not logically fertile. that can be read 2 ways. please take the time to try to see both ways.