Why does existence have to have a beginning and/or end?

_John_
_John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
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And also, assuming an entirely natural world would any beginning or end have a predetermined/predictable beginning and end or do the choices afforded by life affect existence so as to make any prediction unreliable?
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  • Tiggerrick
    Tiggerrick Posts: 1,078 Member
    Without a beginning would there be an end?
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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    So you can eat back the correct exercise calories. Duh.

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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Obviously you need life to perceive existence, so I'll take that easy comment/answer out of the discussion.
  • DenDweller
    DenDweller Posts: 1,438 Member
    Ask the guy riding a bike towards us on another end of the observable universe. He knows how this thread will end.
  • _Stardust_
    _Stardust_ Posts: 124 Member
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  • LouisianaHotSauce_93
    LouisianaHotSauce_93 Posts: 184 Member
    Cause 'Merica!
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    It has neither.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    How can we know that it has a beginning or an end?
  • luthergravy
    luthergravy Posts: 27
    And also, assuming an entirely natural world would any beginning or end have a predetermined/predictable beginning and end or do the choices afforded by life affect existence so as to make any prediction unreliable?

    No. Your premise is entirely incorrect. The universe is basically like an incredibly super-massive cat. With windows. And a clock strapped to its beak. Oh, sorry did I not say? It has a beak. It's like a kind of bird-cat. And it's round. I hope that helps clarify things for you.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    And also, assuming an entirely natural world would any beginning or end have a predetermined/predictable beginning and end or do the choices afforded by life affect existence so as to make any prediction unreliable?

    No. Your premise is entirely incorrect. The universe is basically like an incredibly super-massive cat. With windows. And a clock strapped to its beak. Oh, sorry did I not say? It has a beak. It's like a kind of bird-cat. And it's round. I hope that helps clarify things for you.

    I always saw the universe as more duck like. I feel that you are horribly mistaken.
  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.
  • luthergravy
    luthergravy Posts: 27
    There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

    ...or a timekeeping super-massive bird-cat.
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

    Okay, Obama.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

    A 10, a 5, and five 1s please.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    Big who cares!?

    If questions like these are what keep you up at night, then your existence would be futile.
  • George_Baileys_Ghost
    George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
    Existence is like sex. With no end, there would be only chafing.
  • rfw24
    rfw24 Posts: 443 Member
    Maybe we are the aliens......
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,128 Member
    Big who cares!?

    If questions like these are what keep you up at night, then your existence would be futile.

    I care about my existence, thank you.
  • jwats8
    jwats8 Posts: 112
    Because that's what makes it valuable.

    Very good answer.
  • bonkosaurusrex
    bonkosaurusrex Posts: 71
    Maybe there isn't a beginning/end. Only what you perceive to be a beginning and end.
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    Big who cares!?

    If questions like these are what keep you up at night, then your existence would be futile.


    It actually shows that his mind is FURTILE
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    When the sun blows up, the world will end.

    The end.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    What about michael bay's transformer films series op....why wont they end?

    please make them end!!!

    ke$ha also.
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  • InForBacon
    InForBacon Posts: 1,508 Member
    I often wonder why my bacon supply has to end.
  • ShannonS921
    ShannonS921 Posts: 194
    Because that's what makes it valuable.

    Perfectly put.
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    When the sun blows up, the world will end.

    The end.

    Technically incorrect. The earth will be consumed by the sun during its expansionary period before it blows up.

    Oh and the answer is 42.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    When the sun blows up, the world will end.

    The end.

    Technically incorrect. The earth will be consumed by the sun during its expansionary period before it blows up.

    Oh and the answer is 42.
    Why ya gotta be a smart azz?
  • AquaticQuests
    AquaticQuests Posts: 947 Member
    The magnitude of the cosmos, and the strange misplaced confidence that we have in our knowledge of it: http://youtu.be/EAzCP8SEKwc

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