2006-08-19 01:53:33 · 27 answers · asked by ejap2097 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
then this is an irrelevant question.
as is this answer.
2006-08-19 01:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by India 55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could you believe that anyone whatsoever, even a prophet, can give you a satisfactory answer to this question? Just wondering ...
What do you expect us to say? - I think.. ? I imagine...? I believe... ? The best souls and minds of history - even the holy books of lore - the best they could say about THAT, was: it was "Chaos".
Is the world 'chaos' enough for you?
My friend, the very question is self-contradictory. How can I tell you how it looked like before I was born? Similarly, how can the whole universe tell you how 'nothing' looked like before anything ever existed?
Our minds operate in a multi-medium called time, space, causation, and all their derivatives. Those are our boundaries. With the tools we have, any talk about a 'state of nothingness' is false by default. Any attempt to imagine a state of chaos without time, space and causation will be utterly insane.
The simplest and most accurate answer according to our logic and common sense is: if nothing has ever existed then there was nothing to describe or talk about!! If nothing has ever existed then you will not be here to ask the question, nor will I be there to answer it; there will be no question all together.
2006-08-19 04:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by arabianbard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing cannot exist without something, because nothing is defined as the "absence" of something
so what is the point of knowing what nothing means if we do not know what something means?
It is like saying, imagine red was not true
We defined that color so it has to exist!
Therefore, something must have existed
2006-08-19 03:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you could'nt have asked this question. Secondly, no one could ever imagine what would replace the universe we knew of today...but there could be a simpler answer to that, once you're dead you will know how nothingness exist...it's probably the closest approximation to what if questions and also before you were conceived you should have knew it..because there lies nothingness...
2006-08-20 08:48:59 · answer #4 · answered by bernard.e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible for nothing to exist. At the very least you have to exist as a being able to contemplate existence.
2006-08-19 02:13:49 · answer #5 · answered by ligoneskiing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theortically you'r brain has to exist to process all the data, but the things your processing might not! Everything could be a figment of your imagination.
2006-08-19 13:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by quamig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you took all five senses away. You would still exist. It would just be a different existence than the one we know.
2006-08-19 02:48:12 · answer #7 · answered by wiseone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know it ever did?
The five senses are an illusion take them away and you cannot prove that anything exists.
2006-08-19 02:20:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree, we may just be some kind of race who are controlled and invented by some kind of bloody intergalactical scientists!
2006-08-19 07:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even an illusion exists if only in your mind.
2006-08-19 10:35:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then I've wasted alot of money on groceries.
2006-08-19 01:59:24 · answer #11 · answered by PariahMaterial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋