Cris said:
This is semantic nonsense.
It has nothing to do with semantics. The universe is a product of the goal. Obviously, evolution and complexification can't occur by chance. There's something which draws the universe towards somewhere.
The cause and the event occur at two different states of time.
Impossible, if the effect is present, the cause is present, how else would there be an effect? A cause must be continuous because the effect is also continuous. A piece of matter exists because the resistance, the magnetic energy, keeps it from falling into unity. But to find the real cause why this piece of matter exists, one must also ask why magnetic energy behaves the way it does.
You are merely messing with semantics and language. Events that have occurred were prior to current time; events that will occur will be in post current time.
Time, the past, is a memory and the future is an expectation, they exist only in our thoughts.
The statement has no meaning. Physicists don't know what matter and energy is.
Then it is ineffectual in causing anything if it is nothing.
It's kind of hard to explain. There are two principles necessary for nothingness to "be" real. Nothingness must be nil and infinite. If not nil, it is something instead of nothing. If not infinite, there is something else outside to limit it. We can define Infiniteness as "the absence of any limit"; and Voidness as "the presence of every limit". Zero is infinitely limited. Infinity is not limited at all.
Try to imagine a point. Nil. And now try to imagine that this point is all. Infinite. This is only possible if, even though zero is infinite, its voidness remains distinct from its infiniteness. Distinct in order to be real. Voidness cannot be if it contains something. Since its infiniteness is, it is bound to empty itself in order to be. Nothingness must externalize the whole (nothingness) from itself so that it can contain nothing.
The only way to reject infinity is to become the center of it. Consciousness of Space is the fact of being the center of our infiniteness. Everywhere.
Something infinite must exist otherwise nothing could have begun. Whatever state the universe has experienced, that it is infinite is the simplest explanation of why it exists now.
Only nothingness can be infinite. If this "material" universe would stop, it would not be infinite, and nothingness would immidiately take it's place. It is a greater truth.
Nothing other than the physical has ever been detected. Science operates on what can be observed and detected. There is nothing illogical with that. The mind is also entirely physical.
You're right, nothing else than physical has ever been detected, but why do you not question what this "physical" is? Why not question the observation itself? Are physical things really outside yourself? If they are outside your consciousness, how can you be conscious of them?
Eat some bad fish (the cause) and you will soon vomit (the effect).
That's not a cause. You stopped asking why. To find the cause, you must go deeper. Why does a "bad fish" cause me to vomit? When you answer that, why stop? Why not answer the next question too.
The science of physics would disagree with you. Or do you want to talk string theory?
What I mean is that everything can theoretically be divided into smaller and smaller parts, so what does the universe consist of? It doesn't consist of anything. There are no indivisible particles. The only thing that cannot be divided is nothingness, the present reality, which is what they have found in the quantum world.
If you would see everything at once, if you would be conscious of everything at once, you couldn't see anything, there would only be emptiness. Being is a separation, since what you see and what you are are two different things. We separate the outside (infinity) from the inside (nothingness). This separation creates consciousness, the illusion of the universe. For there to be a feeling of existence, there must be an outside to relate to.
