I don't know if I can buy this bonehead idea. ??

Question

Let me get this right......We have a universe that contains many things that are obviously bad and "apparently" meaningless, but containing creatures like ourselves who KNOW that it is bad and meaningless........and this came to be from "NOTHING?...I don't know.......

Ask your OWN questions.

Come on glit,
If it meaningless, would we KNOW it? Where would the KNOWLEDE come from?

Dharmanator,
Thank you, man. I'm in cahots the dude.

fear,
Come on, man. Answer the question, Answer the QUESTION.

Where are th "intelligent" ones???

OOOHHHHHH!!

GK,
....I like you........no problem.

dangingdanny,
I guess that kind of leaves wide open, doesn't it.
You couldn't possibly think that qualifies as a sufficient answer do you?........do you?

GK,
BTW, When I first peg you some time ago, I though "glittercritter would be good. But then I thought, NAAAAA....you're not THAT bad.

SCALIA,
INSPIRING! ENLIGHTENING!
GK,
Did you read that? Awsome!

Vin,
...suppose you can't find what your not LOOKING for....in THAT sense, you're right.

GK,
That's cool. Have a great day young lady!

Take care GK,
I'll have your Bro. in my "prayers" (don't curse me) if you don't mind.

Answer 1

I don't think anybody has said it better than C. S. Lewis:

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless--I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

Answer 2

Is it easier for you if you think a sky fairy said "make it so" and *poof* it came out of what? oh yeah, nothing. Back to where you started!

Added: I have a favor to ask, could you stop calling me glit? It sounds so perverted. lol GK will do nicely if you want to shorten it :o) Pretty please!

Added more!: I've had all the variations. I think gutterkitty and litterkitty were the two most popular, but I liked bitterkitty the best! I kind of liked it more than glitterkitty lol. Thanks for the note. :o)

More added: C.S. Lewis has some interesting thoughts. I just happen to disagree.

Even more added: Young lady? Don't dismiss me with that attitude, mister man! haha j/k Have a good one. Back to the hospital for me. Bro is in bad shape :o( see ya.

Answer 3

Ok listen up cause I'm going to say this once. Even nothing is something, so NOTHING does not exist. Therefore any way you view it, we came from something. Be it whatever you want, god, aliens, Zeus, the spaghetti monster.

Answer 4

Hmmm let me think that one through.

What if matter has always existed. Religious people love to state that Atheists say we came from nothing. That isn't really true. What if matter has always existed? I believe it has, just like religious people believe that God always existed.

Answer 5

Nothingness doesn't exist... it's illogical. Everything came from something, it's just a question (for many, not for me) whether an omnipotent creator being did it... which is also illogical to me.

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Answer 6

I don't know either, and I *will* ask my own questions - thank you.

This is the best question I've seen all day.