coolguy8472

I have a surplus of money. But I live in a culture that generally did not go out of their way to help me in my times of need. So with that in mind, I ...

From a less bias point of view I should say. I'm thinking it's probably 50%. If we exist in a possible world where LNC is true then math would be vali...

Maybe time is the same thing as motion. I'm not sure how you'd work that into presentism vs eternalism points. But the way it sounds like it would wor...

When I suggest nothing coming from something, I'm implying that time is not infinite also. In order to conclude that nothing exists if now doesn't exi...

The legal system goes easier on women. Women have that advantage.

Sure for some reason we aren't aware of. Like a hidden undiscovered universal constant. Something came from nothing for the same reason Pi starts with...

Why can't creation have been just sparked without a reason? It would be like an axiom. When you ask why, why, why, why, (assuming no infinite regress ...

too broad. And "nothing" and "something" are not visual phenomenon. There are plenty of "something"'s out there that we can't see.

the first paragraph says we can't count that

It probably has something to do with the bystander effect. By a group of people making the decision each person feels less responsible and then less g...

It's a trivial difference to point out that one is the absence of the other in this scenario.

Trivial difference :)

What's wrong with time having a beginning but was not caused by anything beyond time or otherwise? It would be time began when time began. There's wou...

from the original post: "Now, I am aware that there are trivial properties that any thing will have (properties such as self-identity, being a thing, ...

calling them "things" as something they have in common doesn't count per the OP (that falls under "trivial property")

I don't know about the topology angle. You'd have to link me to something like why things without starting points don't exist, or exist as 2 objects, ...

Correct, that's why you can't use the non-existence of a start point of an eternal universe to prove now doesn't exist either. That hasn't been proven...

it actually shows that santa clause does exist with a proof by contradiction. I used the same form of argument you used to show what it doesn't work. ...

Yeah I'm sure we are going in circles. Looked at this OP argument again: Here's a proof that Santa Clause exists in the north pole using this same arg...

When following your reasoning people may agree with "So it must have experienced some events greater than any number of years ago." because they think...

Having an age of 0 and an infinite age are 2 different things in case you're conflating them with the phrase "no age". Universes that have a beginning...

Pretty close to agreement. It's more like "if age of the universe is finite then it has a numeric property". By proving the age of the universe does n...

Yeah I get it. The contradiction you tried to point out doesn't work. I suppose the best way to describe the reality of an eternal universe is that it...

matter can exist forever. It's just that you're trying to extract an age from something that would be of infinite age. Infinity is not a number.

Seeing the micro level wouldn't be sufficient. You'd need to be able to comprehend what's going on a larger scale too.

I'm playing devil's advocate with the idea of disproven an eternal universe. Other possibilities that I've speculated about that are easier to buy for...

In a universe without a beginning, that scenario shouldn't be possible. A clock that begins from the beginning of that universe could not exist if a s...

Nothing and Something

I made a simple prayer once. That I would fall asleep then when I woke up and looked at my digital clock would read 12:34:56. Didn't work. Must have b...

Using that same logic when someone prays and the prayer is not answered, would that then be proof that god does not exist?

Using your same logic there's no such thing as "next to" elements to anything either. No matter how close next is to start, (start + next) / 2 is clos...

Yea as I said its my best guess. This source may help https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2017/08/gut-truth

I'm talking about in probability theory, not about practical persuasion in a court of law. If you were to: 1) grab the population of people who ever c...

I'm also applying the principle that something is not true because it cannot be proven false. It's an argument from ignorant fallacy to assume that. W...

But when you try to form a logical argument of an eternal universe you're assuming the age of the universe is an infinite value or without a value rig...

Yeah at best we can say that it's so obvious that A is A that there's no conceivable reason why it wouldn't be. But I don't see why there couldn't exi...

The motivations for lying play a factor. Someone probably wouldn't have a reason to convince me that they won the lottery unless it was a scam of some...

1. The number of events in an infinite regress is greater than any number 2. Which is a contradiction; can’t be a number and greater than any number. ...

I would say instead "has no certain information on the actual event in question" it has possible information of the actual event in question. Because ...

Statistically speaking yes. Impossible is 0. Improbable is near 0. Why can't evidence of the overheard also be considered evidence of the content of t...

There are piecewise functions involved to weed out these absurdities I'm sure. Like if someone said a trillion people confirmed something verses a tri...

It's my best guess. Because the claim that claims more eyewitnesses has more persuasive power to some people. Double and triple hearsay is a persuasiv...

Sorry this seems so easy, maybe I'm not thinking about it hard enough. Okay pick any 3 things call them Thing A, Thing B, and Thing C and assume they'...

Even if it's not worth living everyone going to die soon enough anyway. Might as well get what you can out of life while you still have it.

I tried to research the problem a bit, it's considered double hearsay in court and generally not admissible as evidence. Person 1 Claim: "I won the lo...

I get what you're saying but it's special pleading that it's not possible to traverse an infinite amount of time. When you try to prove eternal time i...

Did you get what I've been saying though? When you say "The number of events in an infinite regress is greater than any number". I would accept that a...

Not trying to do that. I can word it a different way like how do you prove an unknown property doesn't exist between this letter ==> "a" <== and this ...

Infinity is a description of a set of numbers. Any finite number is a number. If you count from 1, you'll never get to large because "large" is not a ...

You can have no upper limit to the amount of time before now while at the same time having any number of age of any moment in history. So a million ye...