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Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Leo Gura

Health, Self-help

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Answering the ultimate question.

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0:00.0

A true history of the universe. Once upon a time there was nothing. The end.

0:20.0

Everything is nothing with a twist.

0:25.0

A quote by Kurt Vonnegut.

0:29.0

Have you ever wondered?

0:31.0

Why is there something rather than nothing?

0:36.0

This is the ultimate question.

0:39.0

If you could answer this question, and that's a big if,

0:48.7

you would have the answer to all of existence, making this question rather important.

0:51.8

The problem is that philosophers and theologians and scientists have been

0:55.1

asking this question for thousands of years and probably even long

0:59.3

before that since humans first walked on the earth and could think and could formulate questions at all

1:06.1

we probably started asking this question but the challenges that we have thousands of years of

1:12.1

philosophy recorded in the history books and so forth,

1:15.9

but no clear consensus as to what the answer is.

1:19.6

And in fact, most of us today, if you talk to a scientist or even a philosopher today or a

1:24.0

theologian or just a normal guy off the street you ask him this question what's

1:29.2

he's going to tell you he's going to tell you it's impossible to know nobody

1:32.0

knows and nobody could know.

1:36.4

And it's not worth your time to even think about it anymore.

1:39.7

Because hey, if it could be known, we would know it by now, right?

1:45.0

At least, that's what most people assume.

1:48.0

Well, I'm here to break some amazing news to you.

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