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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: The Borg QueenThe Borg Queen Date: Sep 19, 2008 19:47
"Publius" nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9B1EC77D7E691mpubliusnospamcomcas@69.16.185.250...> "The Borg Queen" homesweethome.com> wrote in
> news:yaYAk.6098$bB4.2524@newsfe14.ams2:
>>> Once upon a time there was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing at
>> all. Not even anyone there to know that there was nothing.
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>> In the nothingness was a desire for something.
>> A desire for something to exist - to end the nothing.
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> Oooh, Borg Queen, you just contradicted yourself! If there was a desire,
> then there was something!
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> Bad girl!
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> "Nothing can come from nothing. Therefore something has always existed."
> ---Robert Nozick
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At but 'tis only a story.
But yes and no Mr Publius.
Is a desire "something"?
Can you see it? Touch it? Taste it? Smell it? Hear it?
What IS something?
Before nothing HAD the desire - then there was pure nothing.
But if the desire was "something" then where was it?
If all nothing ever had was the desire to create something - then all there
would be would be desire.
So is desire something?
Is desire enough to quality as "something"?
Is an urge "something"?
The Borg Queen
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