Why is there something rather than nothing?

>>974377
God is eternal, and a creator.

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maybe there isn't

Is this man the greatest philosopher of our time?

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>>974377

Why would there be nothing?

Because of a god damned demiurge GOD DAMMIT.

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Ex nihilo nihil fit is a self defeating concept.

Imagine true nothingness. Now, something pops into existence. You say "that can't be" but what stopped it from happening in the first place? There would have to be some physical law to prevent that from happening. But would not that physical itself be a thing?

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>>974377
saying "there is nothing" makes no sense.
nothing means the lack of things.
if "there is" anything, than that's not nothing anymore.

>>974377
Nonsensical question. "Why" presupposes an intent, which only humans have. The proper question is "how" which my hypothesis is, there can't be nothing in the first place.

Because I exist to observe it.

>>974546
so if I said "there isn't anything" I'd say the same thing but adhere to your little rule

I don't know, but what I do know is that you are not going to get a decent answer here.

>>974377
We are all memes who were spoken into existence. Unless you force your own meme hard enough, you'll be forgotten forever.

>>974377
You never see an old man eating a twix.

>>974657
what is the reasoning behind this

Why does there need to be a why?

>>974377
idk my bff jill?

Pretty sure it has something to do with the quotient of zero and infinity - nothing over everything - but it may be something that can only be described mathematically, if at all. Conceptually, the idea resolves into solipsism, as you only are able to ask the question because you are something (sort of an anthropic principle as applied to philosophy), and the only "nothing" which can exist would be outside of your ability to experience.

>>974383
And yet here we are.

>Why is there something rather than nothing?
Because nothing is inherently unstable.

>>974377
B-theory of time plus modal realism

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>Why is there big guy rather than small guy?

>>974377
Why not? Who says there shouldn't be something?

Why not have something instead of nothing

>>974502
Imagine true nothingness. Now, imagine a thing popping into existence.

This cannot be, as the very nature of the nothing would have been false

if it is nothing, there is no potentiality for things to exist. if there is potential, it is not nothing.

that's just how the odds played out

kind of how there is nothing rather than something. the odds of something existing are greater than them not existing

>>977483
Nothing is perfectly stable.

>>979315
>spotted the bloke what flunked Stats101

Maybe it's a false binary, and the essential division which lies at the heart of what simultaneously creates and destroys the universe.

>>974591
Someone else read A Universe from Nothing

What if "nothing" doesn't exist and it is a figment of our imagination ? What if "something" is the only thing possible and everything else just isn't?

>>974377
Nothing can't "be", because if there is nothing then nothing is. But because there are things that are, then there is something.

>>974377

why are there memes, rather than no memes ?
The 13 year old is eternal, and a creator.

Best
Possible
World

>>974377
>>974377
What the hell is nothing? Sounds made up

>>974440
I don't like the panel order. It adds nothing to the comic
eh? EH?