hasn't new stuff been emerging since the big bang or little pop as I like to call it or was it all built into a very determining starting point?
DM > Thanks Ron, :-) > > If I was a pedant, I might say it was a second or third-hand English > translation from Latin, via Arabic, of something Parmenides said. But > I'm not, so I won't. We would then end up debating what he meant by > nothing, each time he used whatever word(s) he used, and whatever the > context was. Without that, it's still a slogan, albeit, Parmenides > slogan. > > To avoid sleepless nights I find the best answer to how something came > from nothing, is to say whatever it was always existed. (There was no > first cause, existence just is .... time and causation are weirder > than common sense suggests ... but as I say, the first-cause question > has no interesting answer, it can only be the subject of theory, as > Ham agrees, again.) > > Ian > > On 3/3/08, Ron Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> BTW "nothing comes from nothing" is just a slogan - tautology at best >> - carries no weight in an argument. >> >> Ian >> >> >> Ron: >> That slogan comes from what some here would arguably >> Posit was the first MoQist, Parmenides of Elea. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmenides >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
