why should there be anything rather than nothing?

Question

i am a seeker, a philospher, an spiritual person and i stand in awe
of the universe and the fact that i am conscious of this existence.
two things strike me with ever increasing awe and wonder:
the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me...

Wow!

Answer 1

this is what martin heidegger refers to as the fundamental question. why are there essents rather than nothing?

the whole of his body of work in philosophy is spent driving to resolve this question. but in the end, he finds that all we can do is acknowledge that there is a state of existence called "Being", (note the capital B) in which we participate by virtue of our own existence and which may or may not be God. he says that western thought is shaped by greek philosophy, especially the work of aristotle, which attempted to list, define and categorize the material world, which has caused every western thinker ever since to divide things from their essences as essents. it is impossible for western thinkers to unlearn this behavior. he makes some flirtation with taoism, an eastern religion which roughly translates as "the way", and hinduism, which contemplates the common existence of all things and notes it as illusory, as more useful ways of thinking about "Being", but finds them culturally inappropriate for a westerner to make reference of. one's understanding of "Being" is essentially going to be based upon one's own cultural experience. in the end, heidegger concludes that we cannot know God without understanding "Being" and that all we can really do is attempt to contemplate our own participation in beingness to acheive an individual understanding of our relationship with "Being", and perhaps then know God, if only subjectively.

Answer 2

You just answered your own question. Philosophers do that quite often. If you think you are just some Hybrid monkey from Darwin's little tour of this pebble in space, then all you really do is respond to stimuli not spiritual and sentient thought. We know we are going to die. We contemplate that. Anything rather than nothing, (your question) might create something more than you expect. It might send us into oblivion as well. Our biggest most important question is......Are we God?....or do we just play one on TV until the real God cancels our little show.

Answer 3

I don't know if it ebtirely answers your question, but I was always interested by the participatory anthropic principle. This claims that concious life must exist in the universe because without an observer, by quantum theory the universe would exist in every possible state simultaneously until the first one evolved life, then the quantum states collapse into that universe. basically an extension of schrodingers cat to the entire universe, look it up.

Answer 4

Why not. Do not stand in awe of the universe for the universe knows you not. Rather, stand in awe of creation, the birth of a child or the persistence of a dandelion.

Answer 5

Well if you consider that everything in the material world is made up of molecules, which are themselves made up of atoms, which are themselves made out of elctrons, neutrons and protons, and that between these three there is mostly a vaccuum, then yes you can say that on the whole there is nothing.

Answer 6

One of the wrong things to do is...Nothing! This is a universe that Nothing is absolute ;
One of the governing Laws is : Anything is better than Nothing! (LRH).

Ciao............John-John.

Answer 7

Because.

Answer 8

Because "nothing" sucks