What do you believe

Concerning the Big Bang, and other "ultimate beginnings" to the universe, despite it being over 2,500 years old, Aristotle actually offers up a very interesting theory, commonly known as the Unmoved Mover.

The short of the argument is this: you understand events only through their causes, through finding out the "why?" behind the event. Why is the sky blue? Well, it is actually due to the amount of blue light being reflected etc etc. So then why is there light reflected? Where does the light come from? And so on and so on.

If you keep looking for the "why" you will always find another "why?" that needs answering too. And since you only understand an event through its cause, this cannot go on forever because then you would never know anything (a classic version of the reductio ad absurdum argument). But we do know things, and if you keep looking for prior causes, there must be an ultimate cause that was not caused by anything else. It is so ultimate, so essential, and so necessary that it caused itself to exist. This is the Unmoved Mover- the singular, primary cause of all things in the universe.

For Aristotle, this is not a religious entity but really a necessarily theoretical truth that must exist, for without it knowledge of anything is impossible. Interestingly, it has a lot of similarities to the Big Bang theory and also theological creation.

onenerdykidConcerning the Big Bang, and other "ultimate beginnings" to the universe, despite it being over 2,500 years old, Aristotle actually offers up a very interesting theory, commonly known as the Unmoved Mover.

The short of the argument is this: you understand events only through their causes, through finding out the "why?" behind the event. Why is the sky blue? Well, it is actually due to the amount of blue light being reflected etc etc. So then why is there light reflected? Where does the light come from? And so on and so on.

If you keep looking for the "why" you will always find another "why?" that needs answering too. And since you only understand an event through its cause, this cannot go on forever because then you would never know anything (a classic version of the reductio ad absurdum argument). But we do know things, and if you keep looking for prior causes, there must be an ultimate cause that was not caused by anything else. It is so ultimate, so essential, and so necessary that it caused itself to exist. This is the Unmoved Mover- the singular, primary cause of all things in the universe.

For Aristotle, this is not a religious entity but really a necessarily theoretical truth that must exist, for without it knowledge of anything is impossible. Interestingly, it has a lot of similarities to the Big Bang theory and also theological creation.

That is some deep shit!

Mr.BishopThat is some deep shit!

It would be awesome to have Aristotle alive today and for him to be able to experience modern theoretical physics (by the way, he invented the word & science "physics"), like the Big Bang theory. When people ask, "well, then what caused the Big Bang??" he would most likely immediately answer: "itself".

onenerdykidConcerning the Big Bang, and other "ultimate beginnings" to the universe, despite it being over 2,500 years old, Aristotle actually offers up a very interesting theory, commonly known as the Unmoved Mover.

The short of the argument is this: you understand events only through their causes, through finding out the "why?" behind the event. Why is the sky blue? Well, it is actually due to the amount of blue light being reflected etc etc. So then why is there light reflected? Where does the light come from? And so on and so on.

If you keep looking for the "why" you will always find another "why?" that needs answering too. And since you only understand an event through its cause, this cannot go on forever because then you would never know anything (a classic version of the reductio ad absurdum argument). But we do know things, and if you keep looking for prior causes, there must be an ultimate cause that was not caused by anything else. It is so ultimate, so essential, and so necessary that it caused itself to exist. This is the Unmoved Mover- the singular, primary cause of all things in the universe.

For Aristotle, this is not a religious entity but really a necessarily theoretical truth that must exist, for without it knowledge of anything is impossible. Interestingly, it has a lot of similarities to the Big Bang theory and also theological creation.

Me likey :]

onenerdykidConcerning the Big Bang, and other "ultimate beginnings" to the universe, despite it being over 2,500 years old, Aristotle actually offers up a very interesting theory, commonly known as the Unmoved Mover.

The short of the argument is this: you understand events only through their causes, through finding out the "why?" behind the event. Why is the sky blue? Well, it is actually due to the amount of blue light being reflected etc etc. So then why is there light reflected? Where does the light come from? And so on and so on.

If you keep looking for the "why" you will always find another "why?" that needs answering too. And since you only understand an event through its cause, this cannot go on forever because then you would never know anything (a classic version of the reductio ad absurdum argument). But we do know things, and if you keep looking for prior causes, there must be an ultimate cause that was not caused by anything else. It is so ultimate, so essential, and so necessary that it caused itself to exist. This is the Unmoved Mover- the singular, primary cause of all things in the universe.

For Aristotle, this is not a religious entity but really a necessarily theoretical truth that must exist, for without it knowledge of anything is impossible. Interestingly, it has a lot of similarities to the Big Bang theory and also theological creation.

Well I'm not sleeping tonight

there is a god and your all going to hell.

that i want cheese fries

NikolausYes

You believe something came from nothing?

CONAIR_BUSCEMIYou believe something came from nothing?

You're God doesn't fade any better. Do you believe God came from nothing?

NikolausYou're God doesn't fade any better. Do you believe God came from nothing?

When did I even say that I believed in God?

CONAIR_BUSCEMIWhen did I even say that I believed in God?

it seemed implied when you asked that question.

Alvaroi consider myself a really sceptic person, but ive heard so many stories about close friends who have experienced weird shit with "supernatural" things that i think there might be some kind of life after you die

It's just DMT being released in your brain which happens when you die.

The problem with religion is that it puts a huge emphasis on humanity being of great importance, which is really just a big lie to make people feel better about their meaningless lives.

I believe life is like a really abstract movie and it's your duty to find your own 'meaning' in it - religious people are just really shitty and uncreative at it. They want to be spoon fed what the movie (life) was about instead of taking the more difficult path of drawing their own conclusions and forming an opinion for themselves.

Alan Watts knows whats up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2bNpQWHcQ

KazabazuaIt's just DMT being released in your brain which happens when you die.

The problem with religion is that it puts a huge emphasis on humanity being of great importance, which is really just a big lie to make people feel better about their meaningless lives.

I believe life is like a really abstract movie and it's your duty to find your own 'meaning' in it - religious people are just really shitty and uncreative at it. They want to be spoon fed what the movie (life) was about instead of taking the more difficult path of drawing their own conclusions and forming an opinion for themselves.

I have not seen one shred of scientific evidence that says DMT is released when you die, let alone when you dream.

KazabazuaIt's just DMT being released in your brain which happens when you die.

The problem with religion is that it puts a huge emphasis on humanity being of great importance, which is really just a big lie to make people feel better about their meaningless lives.

I believe life is like a really abstract movie and it's your duty to find your own 'meaning' in it - religious people are just really shitty and uncreative at it. They want to be spoon fed what the movie (life) was about instead of taking the more difficult path of drawing their own conclusions and forming an opinion for themselves.

What if all religions/philosophies have one objective truth, idk. The rosicrucians were built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm, this could be completely bogus though. I just feel like there has to be an objective truth. I’ll seek.

I’ve been a Buddhist, hinduist, christian, tommy Wiseauist, etc.

Man what if God was a girl? How big of a kitchen do you think heaven is? XD