products can receive gifts… but those gifts are also products.
Most (if not all) things are produced by some other event, and do not simply manifest themselves out of nothing. I can only think of ONE thing which is still reasonably hypothesized to have simply manifested itself out of nothing… and we are all living within its results. But it’s also possible that something else produced our universe from some ancient inexplicable event.
The idea that anything “has always been,” does not make sense or seem possible, to me. I don’t think “infinity” is possible in reality. At some point, all of the material in the universe will have been exhausted or accounted for, and then infinity must cease, making it not infinity.
Then again, how could we ever even approach a legitimate perception of the events which produced our universe? Is it even possible for a singularity to actually exist? How can we know that, if we can’t locate one to say “ah! there is the evidence to show these can exist…” and what kind of “event” could possibly occur, if all matter in the universe is condensed into a singularity? Can that singularity act on itself? Where did that singularity come from, if just before it, there was “nothing?” What could possibly act upon “nothing,” if all matter is condensed into, and contained within, that singularity? That would mean there is no other matter present, to act on that singularity, or produce any event.
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Already accepted, thank you.
Can others be gifts? Or we all products?
I don’t know what that means!!!
products can receive gifts… but those gifts are also products.
Most (if not all) things are produced by some other event, and do not simply manifest themselves out of nothing. I can only think of ONE thing which is still reasonably hypothesized to have simply manifested itself out of nothing… and we are all living within its results. But it’s also possible that something else produced our universe from some ancient inexplicable event.
The idea that anything “has always been,” does not make sense or seem possible, to me. I don’t think “infinity” is possible in reality. At some point, all of the material in the universe will have been exhausted or accounted for, and then infinity must cease, making it not infinity.
Then again, how could we ever even approach a legitimate perception of the events which produced our universe? Is it even possible for a singularity to actually exist? How can we know that, if we can’t locate one to say “ah! there is the evidence to show these can exist…” and what kind of “event” could possibly occur, if all matter in the universe is condensed into a singularity? Can that singularity act on itself? Where did that singularity come from, if just before it, there was “nothing?” What could possibly act upon “nothing,” if all matter is condensed into, and contained within, that singularity? That would mean there is no other matter present, to act on that singularity, or produce any event.
so it must have gone like this:
1) nothing
2) ??? (the impossible question)
3) singularity/big-bang
4) eons…
5) today
It is quite obvious that all humans are products of reproductive events.