Why does anything exist?

**Rhyfelwyr** · 08-15-2009, 00:06

If something is virtual that is still an existence of sorts though isnt' it?

**Kurando** · 08-15-2009, 05:27

Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

If something is virtual that is still an existence of sorts though isnt' it?

The virtual existance of which you speak is like music: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, are like notes, but the music manifests with a byproduct that mistakenly believes itself to be the player rather than the music. -It's Silence which actually both plays the notes and listens to them, meanwhile Emptiness dances.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 08-15-2009, 11:02

So is that peyote or BC bud?

**Beirut** · 08-15-2009, 11:33

Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito

So is that peyote or BC bud?

A little bit of Column A and a little bit of Column B.

Don't the anthropic principles handle this matter of "why do things exist"?

**Louis VI the Fat** · 08-15-2009, 13:20

Originally Posted by Kurando

The virtual existance of which you speak is like music: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, are like notes, but the music manifests with a byproduct that mistakenly believes itself to be the player rather than the music. -It's Silence which actually both plays the notes and listens to them, meanwhile Emptiness dances.

I don't know if what I just read is a beautiful synthesis of philosophy and poetry, or the biggest load of drunk bollox I've ever read.

Oh, you rascals and your cosmic harmonies.

**Kurando** · 08-15-2009, 21:27

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

I don't know if what I just read is a beautiful synthesis of philosophy and poetry, or the biggest load of drunk bollox I've ever read.

In the immortal words of Grandpa Simpson: "legend has it my great-grand pappy stumbled upon this recipe when he was trying to invent a cheap substitute for holy water."

So, do things exist, or do they not?

Contrary to popular belief, there are no winners in a butter eating contest.

-The philosophies "things exist" and "things do not exist" are two sides of the same coin, but it's a coin which is so thin that it has no edge; truth rests upon that edge.

-The statements "things exist" and "things do not exist" are spoken aloud, while truth's one-and-only voice, is silence... Once we are done discussing these matters, truth always gets the last word, speaking louder than anything we have said.