If there was ever Absolutely Nothing would there ever be....anything?

[HFWR]

I wonder if the Creator had a cigarette afterward?

 

[Notmuchlonger]

I wonder if the Creator had a cigarette afterward?

Ya and it was goooood..

 

[Gazingus]

That's why it takes more faith to be an atheist than it does to believe in Genesis.

 

[bbbamI]

To be or not to be, that is the question.

 

[kumquat]

For example, if there was this tiny ball of "comic beginning stuff: now in easy to explode package!" then how do we get from unexcited cosmic goop that so far has been perfectly content to stay in its tiny ball to an expanding universe? If it's always been in an excited state and it just took a while to hit some sort of critical junction that started the whole show, then energy has been created from nothing, and that would make the baby Einstein cry.

Ask Osama what it is

 

[RetiredGypsy]

And, because I refuse to believe that one side of anything where more than one side can exist, here's an opposing viewpoint:
Another Case Not Made: Lee Strobel's Case for a Creator

 

[Jarhead*]

No golfers or fly-fishermen in this group, so move on Jarhead. (O.K.)

 

[Nords]

Until someone proves otherwise, the evidence is that the total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a fixed amount and never more or less.

Sure, in this universe.

For the dimensions that we can perceive, anyway...

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

how does the ephemeral grasp infinity? it must be like trying to grab hold of your own shadow. how to imagine nonlinear concepts from a linear point of view. somethings are site specific. language does not always precisely translate. maybe an object is too bright to look into or too dark to see. sometimes it is more constructive to describe the space around an object rather than the object itself. sometimes the best description is not necessarily what a thing is but rather what it is not. the geometry is a negative proof. sometimes "the question is the answer."

outside of politics and religion, the closest you might come to knowing nothing is the experience of coming into being. you might not find a satisfying definition of nothing, but you can picture yourself waking up slowly from a sound, dreamless, unconscious but satisfying sleep.

edit: "i know nothing"~~sergeant hans schultz

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Picture the [/FONT]infinite [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]universe as containing nothing. It [/FONT]has no light, no dust, no particles of any kind, no air, no elements, no molecules[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif], no spirit, no force fields[/FONT]. It's absolute nothingness. In fact, we can call it Absolutely Nothing

A staff meeting?

 

[CuppaJoe]

Quote from Gertrude Stein: "There is no there there" [referring to Oakland, CA]

Sounds like you have just described Oakland.

Hey! She meant it "ain't what it used to be." Change is a truth of the universe?

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OP, this is really scary. You have described what I find when I try to analyze the contents of REIT portfolios; can they leverage 100?