Why do things exist?

by **WiredOut** » 19th May 07, 05:10

Why is there something, rather than nothing?

Go.

by **skychaserhigh** » 19th May 07, 10:07

cos if there was nothing we would spend all our time looking for something :shock:

by **WiredOut** » 19th May 07, 11:01

skychaserhigh wrote:cos if there was nothing we would spend all our time looking for something

Heh!

I quite like that, actually.

Cheers! Keep 'em coming.

by **29xTheJames** » 19th May 07, 12:04

because there wouldnt be anything for us to do.

by **WiredOut** » 19th May 07, 12:15

29xTheJames wrote:because there wouldnt be anything for us to do.

Ok, but why does the need to 'do things' exist? Boredom's an adaptive motivational factor in an organism that succeeds by dominating its environment through concocting and then executing plans, I suppose. Or something.

Yeah, I don't know where this thread's going either, but please submit any philosophical / existentialist / theological/ scientific musings that come to mind. I'm always interested in what people think about this 'why are we here?' shit.

by **29xTheJames** » 19th May 07, 12:41

im not god (although the missus says it enough during...thats enough) but at times i think "i dont care, im just here, get on with life." then i sometimes think "its just nature. third rock from the sun, right atmosphere etc etc". and yes i do genuinly think "...etc etc" when i cant be arsed to think properly!

by **kitescreech** » 19th May 07, 16:33

If there was nothing, would we be aware of it ?

(like intelligence and Radio 1 I guess)

by **skychaserhigh** » 19th May 07, 22:55

just watched saturday night television :roll:

ITS TRUE NOTHING DOES EXIST :shock:

by **Dark Lord of Barnet** » 19th May 07, 23:51

Why not?

by **Stuart Brackpool** » 20th May 07, 00:01

We are finite creatures in a universe of infinite possibilities. Does that seem a little unfair to anyone else? And it's not so much why things exist that's on my mind at the moment (though I've had my share of grappling with that one!) but where do I put them when I have them? And I'm going through a bad patch with Countdown...Bloody 75 times table.

by **Orient** » 20th May 07, 01:38

I think it might've been on Red Dwarf when one of the characters said something about humans and all other life on earth being a form of disease that has infected the planet...like a bacteria...I suppose it makes sense in a way... :?:

by Zo » 20th May 07, 09:57

Stuart Brackpool wrote:And I'm going through a bad patch with Countdown...Bloody 75 times table.

hahahaha!!! I feel your pain!

by **kitescreech** » 21st May 07, 10:08

Of course we could all just be the dream of some super inteligent super being and when he / she wakes we will all, you know, vanish.

Man.

by **Ross** » 21st May 07, 11:00

Orient wrote:I think it might've been on Red Dwarf when one of the characters said something about humans and all other life on earth being a form of disease that has infected the planet...like a bacteria...I suppose it makes sense in a way...

I thought that was the Matrix, Agent Smith to Morpheus...

True though... We do all come from bacteria, and we are a negative influence on this planet.

by **madbloke** » 21st May 07, 11:21

WiredOut wrote:Why is there something, rather than nothing?

Go.

As my old nan always used to say, "Because a y's not a z, and you can't clean windows with a shovel". Mad as tits, she was.

I once attempted to prove her wrong by cleaning her windows with a shovel. It ended badly....

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