How is it that Existence Exists?

I contemplate the situation where nothing exists and then, there is us and the universe we perceive and I ask; How is it that something exists? Can it be that something can spring from nothing?

The glib answer from those of little imagination is to assert that there cannot be nothing, that where nothing exists there is still a god. I assert that that is a good answer for monkeys, not philosophers. It simply avoids the conundrum by refusing to ask how that god exists. Note that I do not refuse the notion that that which most would define as god might exist, I simply assert that one cannot avoid the question of how existence might exist by invoking the notion that god exists as such a god existing is contingent upon the existence of existence.

Obviously something exists. The assertion (I have heard often) that all is illusion misses the point that for such illusion itself to exist, there must be existence. Refusal to entertain the question as a valid question is simply either failure of imagination or fear of the question.

My philosophy suggests that it is not possible for existence to derive from non existence. For existence to derive there must be something for it to derive from and such a something is precluded from existing without the existence of existence. Therefor existence is not derivative. Given that existence cannot derive from nonexistence, it follows that there could not be a condition of nonexistence. There is no such condition of nonexistence. Nonexistence does not exist, ergo, everything exists. Existence exists because it can.

It follows that if anything can exist, it must exist.

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Science & Technology

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• philosophy
• existance
• exist
• god
• derive
• derivative

[NegativeMeatPopsicle]

Axioms ftw

[ZeusHelios]

@ariisbest2 You tell them. They fail to understand God and try to explain him with sceince and with our minds and way of thinking. They fail to understand that we may not be able to explain this supreme being with our own minds God has obviously created all things.

[ariisbest2]

the reason your wrong is because God doesnt EXIST; as you said yourself, whether existence exists is a question in and of itself. God is more than the reason anything exists, His position in the universe is beyond paradoxical and therefore all those who rely solely on science for answers are at a loss to explain God and His nature of being, so they automatically deny what they cannot prove. Belief in God is a leap of faith, and athiests are too afraid of what lies on the other side . . . .

[whahas]

Non-existence is as strange as het 'number' zero.

Zero doesn't exist either, it just means that there is 'lack' of anything we have defined, but it doesn't mean there is totally no-thing.

Have you ever heard someone use the number zero in a phrase?

"I have zero eggs." No, the common used phrase is: "I have no eggs.".

Non-existence is just some poor way to describe something that hasn't been described yet.

I see that @CeltoSaxonKnight already told you that.

[mrstrings2006]

@QuantumLeap365 Mushrooms make you laugh, and they show that you are One with everything.

[watertonrivers]

One of the concepts my Dad gave us as kids to make us think was; What came before God...excellent question; my theory is that existence has existed forever. Or both, if you look at it like computer machine language...on, off, on, off--1010....