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Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:58 am People's interest or none interest CERTAINLY DOES NOT have ANY BEARING ON what is ACTUALLY REAL, and True.
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

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Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:58 am If one loses interest in the IRREFUTABLE Fact that the Universe, Itself, IS infinite, and/or eternal, is of NO REAL CONCERN AT ALL. People's interest or none interest CERTAINLY DOES NOT have ANY BEARING ON what is ACTUALLY REAL, and True.
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Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:46 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:33 amAs expressed existence itself has no reason or why. Those are complexities concerning conscious beings and particular things.

Reason is an aspect of existence, not a cause of existence or something beyond existence.

Reason could not cause or initiate existence when reason itself is existence.

To reiterate there is no reason or why for existence. Existence simply is. Reason and why concern conscious beings and particular or specific things.

You seem to claim existence itself has or had some reason for being. I’m asking that you provide an example of such reason not involving conscious beings or particular things to illustrate such reason for existence itself. Illustrate your point.
OBVIOUSLY it is an ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY to provide examples of 'reason' or 'why' for absolutely ANY thing, which does not involve conscious human beings.

ONLY conscious human beings can 'make up' reasons or whys, and only conscious human beings can express and receive reasons and whys. So, again, it is IMPOSSIBLE to provide examples of 'reason' and 'why', which do not involve conscious human beings. So, it does NOT MAKE ACTUAL SENSE to ASK FOR examples that could NEVER be provided.

LOL ONCE MORE NO one can PROVIDE you of what you are ASKING FOR, here, BECAUSE it is, OBVIOUSLY, an IMPOSSIBILITY.

you are CONFLATED TWO DIFFERENT things, and then 'TRYING TO' CLAIM that because one can NOT BE DONE, therefore, the other does EXIST.
Precisely the point.

Reason for existence cannot be provided not because things are conflated, rather because existence itself lacks reason.
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Fairy wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:35 am Once you know that unicorns don’t exist…
Then to what are you referring?
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Ben JS wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:56 am For what it's worth,
these ideas go back millennia.
So we were both beaten to the punch.
This is eternal knowledge. Not sports.
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daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:50 pmThis is eternal knowledge.
I think it's better described as eternal truth.

Truth: the quality or state of being true / that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality
Knowledge: The state or fact of knowing

Truth remains regardless of whether anything is aware of it.
Knowledge is dependent on a subject discovering/recognizing it (as you rightly say).

Truth is present in any place within existence - any state of existence.
In a place without conscious entities that can recognize - knowledge is absent.

Truth resides everywhere. Knowledge resides within the subject.
daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 12:57 am This is not my philosophy. [...] I did not invent it. Supposing all detailed in the original essay is accurate no one would have contrived or invented this philosophy or this description of what is. It would be eternal knowledge, existent and present forever. Individuals discover it, they stumble upon it from time to time throughout eternity and express it for others to contemplate.
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Me rambling:

A person who went by James S. Saint on ILP defined existence as affectance.
That which is exists, is that which has the capacity to affect anything else that exists.
He called it Rational Metaphysics.

Awareness exists, and through this awareness, the existence of all else is inferred / recognized.
It's like a metric for what rationally ought have any relevance.
As if some hypothetical thing has no capacity to affect anything else that exists,
then to disregard it has no consequence - nor could it's consideration provide utility.

This is my most preferred definition of existence that I've encountered.

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What is the most rational division of space?

The smallest possible change.

If between two states, no thing has changed -
then these two states can be considered identical.
There's no reason to consider them different.

A unique state of existence.

[If existence is a circle,
and determinism true,
then from any unique state,
every other state of existence,
will unfold in the same order -
such that any state could be considered
the start or end of the loop.
Meaning -
if you travel from one state of existence,
until you meet an identical state of existence,
you've now made a loop of existence.
Traveling further would only be a repeat.

But it is possible existence never repeats.
There are known pattern expansions that would never repeat -
and also plenty that do.]

Time is the measure of change -
the dimension by which the contents of other dimensions change.
This this is also true if you were to travel along any dimension -
the contents of other dimensions, from your perspective, would be changing as you move along this dimension.

We experience time thought through slices of it.
Where other dimensions we can experience a wider collection of slices at once -
you can see along the landscape simultaneously, but there a limits to how far we can see - primarily biological ones.

It is this discrepancy that sets our experience of time apart.
But from the eternal perspective, time is akin to all other dimensions.

To get back to my point...

Hypothetically, every unique state of existence could be catalogued.
If this we done, then this catalogue - this set -
by the prior definition of rational limits,
would represent the size of existence's time:
the number of unique states it can be in.

A potentially limited set, that eternally repeats.

But if we step back, and look at this 'existence loop' -
it is an eternal object - and the only thing that exists.
Existence is.

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I feel like there's a lot more I could say.
Like my beliefs on it's implications for reincarnation.
Or the ethics that arise in recognition of this.

But this feels like a good place to stop rambling.

..

If knowledge is power,
then to share what one believes to be knowledge,
is to empower others.
Ideally, to make wiser, more well informed decisions.
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daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:32 pm
Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:46 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:33 amAs expressed existence itself has no reason or why. Those are complexities concerning conscious beings and particular things.

Reason is an aspect of existence, not a cause of existence or something beyond existence.

Reason could not cause or initiate existence when reason itself is existence.

To reiterate there is no reason or why for existence. Existence simply is. Reason and why concern conscious beings and particular or specific things.

You seem to claim existence itself has or had some reason for being. I’m asking that you provide an example of such reason not involving conscious beings or particular things to illustrate such reason for existence itself. Illustrate your point.
OBVIOUSLY it is an ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY to provide examples of 'reason' or 'why' for absolutely ANY thing, which does not involve conscious human beings.

ONLY conscious human beings can 'make up' reasons or whys, and only conscious human beings can express and receive reasons and whys. So, again, it is IMPOSSIBLE to provide examples of 'reason' and 'why', which do not involve conscious human beings. So, it does NOT MAKE ACTUAL SENSE to ASK FOR examples that could NEVER be provided.

LOL ONCE MORE NO one can PROVIDE you of what you are ASKING FOR, here, BECAUSE it is, OBVIOUSLY, an IMPOSSIBILITY.

you are CONFLATED TWO DIFFERENT things, and then 'TRYING TO' CLAIM that because one can NOT BE DONE, therefore, the other does EXIST.
Precisely the point.

Reason for existence cannot be provided not because things are conflated, rather because existence itself lacks reason.
But 'eason for Existence HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED. So, your CLAIM that reason for Existence cannot be provided is OBVIOUSLY False.

Now, ONCE.MORE, you are absolutely FREE to BELIEVE whatever you like, but just because you might BELIEVE some thing is true that in and itself does NOT make it true. For example you may well ALSO BELIEVE that Life, itself, lacks meaning, AS WELL. But what makes your BELIEF, here, true?

Just SAYING and CLAIMING that reason for Existence can NOT be provided, because, "daniel j lavender" BELIEVES, Existence, Itself, lacks reason, is NEVER EVER going to suffice.

EXPLAIN TO the readers, here, what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which MAKES your BELIEF, here, true
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Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:49 pm
daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:32 pmReason for existence cannot be provided not because things are conflated, rather because existence itself lacks reason.
But 'eason for Existence HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED. So, your CLAIM that reason for Existence cannot be provided is OBVIOUSLY False.
The reason you provide:
Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:46 am'I' WILL, AGAIN, say what is the REASON WHY Existence, Itself, TO me.

The REASON Existence, Itself, exists is so that 'I' can BEAR WITNESS TO the beauty that 'I' AM Creating, HERE-NOW.
…concerns you particularly, it concerns a conscious individual.

It is your contrivance; a reason for and of you as a conscious being, not existence itself.

Existence itself cannot have causal reason. Any claimed reason for existence would itself be part of existence.

Existence is reason, not merely from or for reason.

Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:49 pmNow, ONCE.MORE, you are absolutely FREE to BELIEVE whatever you like, but just because you might BELIEVE some thing is true that in and itself does NOT make it true. For example you may well ALSO BELIEVE that Life, itself, lacks meaning, AS WELL. But what makes your BELIEF, here, true?

Just SAYING and CLAIMING that reason for Existence can NOT be provided, because, "daniel j lavender" BELIEVES, Existence, Itself, lacks reason, is NEVER EVER going to suffice.

EXPLAIN TO the readers, here, what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which MAKES your BELIEF, here, true
Existence is not devoid of reason nor is life devoid of meaning. The point is conscious, living beings construct those things.

Reason is part of existence, not something beyond existence. Nor is reason a cause of existence. Reason could not cause existence as reason itself is existence.

Existence cannot have a cause as any cause would be existence. Existence is eternal.

As existence is eternal any causal reason would be applied after the fact of existence already being. Any reason would be contrivance.
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daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am
Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:49 pm
daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:32 pmReason for existence cannot be provided not because things are conflated, rather because existence itself lacks reason.
But 'eason for Existence HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED. So, your CLAIM that reason for Existence cannot be provided is OBVIOUSLY False.
The reason you provide:
Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:46 am'I' WILL, AGAIN, say what is the REASON WHY Existence, Itself, TO me.

The REASON Existence, Itself, exists is so that 'I' can BEAR WITNESS TO the beauty that 'I' AM Creating, HERE-NOW.
…concerns you particularly, it concerns a conscious individual.
OBVIOUSLY, 'you' do NOT YET KNOW 'Who 'I' AM', correct?

For, if you DID, then you would NOT have SAID and WROTE what you just did, here.
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am It is your contrivance; a reason for and of you as a conscious being, not existence itself.
you ARE MISSING THE MARK, and WHOLE POINT, here. But, this is just because 'you' are NOT YET ABLE TO ANSWER the QUESTION, 'Who am 'I'?' Correct?
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Existence itself cannot have causal reason. Any claimed reason for existence would itself be part of existence.
But, 'you' being a PARTLY 'conscious being', here, is NOT 'the one' who HAS and HOLDS 'the ANSWER', here. Or, do you, a human being, BELIEVE that 'you' DO?

Also, and OBVIOUSLY, 'your' OWN individual human being 'claimed reason' that there is NO 'reason' for Existence, Itself, would itself be a part of Existence, Itself, correct?

And, if yes, then you ALSO WANTING TO CLAIM that ANY 'claimed reason', being PART OF 'Existence', Itself, would then AUTOMATICALLY FORFEIT 'the reason', FORFEIT your OWN 'reasons' and CLAIMS, here.

daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Existence is reason, not merely from or for reason.
But, this is ONLY one individual human beings OWN view and perspective, based upon 'a reason', which is just part of Existence, Itself.

Now, the ACTUAL REASON Existence, Itself, EXISTS is so that 'I' can BEAR WITNESS TO the BEAUTY that 'I' AM CREATING HERE, NOW. AND, WHEN, and IF, you EVER COME TO, ALSO, UNDERSTAND and KNOW WHO 'I' AM, EXACTLY, then 'you' WILL ALSO SEE HOW and WHY 'this' IS ABSOLUTELY True, Right, Accurate, AND Correct.
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am
Age wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:49 pmNow, ONCE.MORE, you are absolutely FREE to BELIEVE whatever you like, but just because you might BELIEVE some thing is true that in and itself does NOT make it true. For example you may well ALSO BELIEVE that Life, itself, lacks meaning, AS WELL. But what makes your BELIEF, here, true?

Just SAYING and CLAIMING that reason for Existence can NOT be provided, because, "daniel j lavender" BELIEVES, Existence, Itself, lacks reason, is NEVER EVER going to suffice.

EXPLAIN TO the readers, here, what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which MAKES your BELIEF, here, true
Existence is not devoid of reason nor is life devoid of meaning. The point is conscious, living beings construct those things.
NO one, here, has even thought, let alone said, otherwise.
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Reason is part of existence, not something beyond existence.
There is NO 'thing' BEYOND Existence. And AGAIN, NO one, here, has even thought, let alone said, otherwise.
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Nor is reason a cause of existence. Reason could not cause existence as reason itself is existence.
ONCE AGAIN, NO one, here, has even thought, let alone said, otherwise.

It REALLY would be GREAT if you JUST FOLLOW 'the words', here, ONLY, and NOT FOLLOW your OWN assuming and believing.
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Existence cannot have a cause as any cause would be existence. Existence is eternal.
ONCE AGAIN, just because "daniel j lavender" BELIEVES some thing to be true WILL NEVER EVER MEAN NOR MAKE 'that thing' true.

Can you, at least, COMPREHEND and UNDERSTAND this Fact?

If yes, then what ACTUAL PROVE, IS THERE, that there IS, supposedly, NO 'reason' AT ALL FOR the EXISTENCE OF 'Existence', Itself?
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am As existence is eternal any causal reason would be applied after the fact of existence already being. Any reason would be contrivance.
Have you EVER CONSIDERED that THE REASON that 'Existence', Itself, EXISTS has been 'around' for AS LONG AS 'Existence', Itself, HAS BEEN?

If no, then WHY NOT?

WHY are you ONLY 'considering' SOME things, here, ONLY?
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Age wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:56 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Existence itself cannot have causal reason. Any claimed reason for existence would itself be part of existence.
Also, and OBVIOUSLY, 'your' OWN individual human being 'claimed reason' that there is NO 'reason' for Existence, Itself, would itself be a part of Existence, Itself, correct?

And, if yes, then you ALSO WANTING TO CLAIM that ANY 'claimed reason', being PART OF 'Existence', Itself, would then AUTOMATICALLY FORFEIT 'the reason', FORFEIT your OWN 'reasons' and CLAIMS, here.
Existence involves reason in part. Reason is a construct concerning particular things often conflated with existence in its general sense. For example, the universe may have been created for or by reason of a creator yet that reason would apply specifically to that particular arrangement. The causal reason would concern a particular configuration, not existence.

Existence itself cannot have causal reason. Any claimed reason would have qualities substantiating it as a thing or as part of existence. For example, its initiation of [another part of] existence or its interaction with [another part of] existence would substantiate it as a thing.

Any thing would be [part of] existence. Existence would not cause existence. Existence would already be.

The point is existence itself has no initiating cause or reason as articulated in the original statement and essay note.

Age wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:56 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am As existence is eternal any causal reason would be applied after the fact of existence already being. Any reason would be contrivance.
Have you EVER CONSIDERED that THE REASON that 'Existence', Itself, EXISTS has been 'around' for AS LONG AS 'Existence', Itself, HAS BEEN?

If no, then WHY NOT?

WHY are you ONLY 'considering' SOME things, here, ONLY?
As expressed in the original essay:
daniel j lavender wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:44 pmAs existence never began, as existence had no starting point things wouldn't need to advance or develop from a beginning. There wouldn't be a beginning to need to develop from. Things would always be existent and could exist at any level of development at any given time. This essentially means life, or consciousness, could be eternal.
Reason is an aspect of existence involving conscious beings. Consciousness is presumably eternal and so is reason.

Existence just is. Sequence and time, like reason, are constructs concerning particulars often conflated with existence in its general sense. Attempting to apply chronological order to reason and existence struggles because reason is existence.

Existence is reason. Existence does not merely come from reason or begin because of reason. Reason is existence. That is precisely why there is no reason causing existence.
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daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am
Age wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:56 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am Existence itself cannot have causal reason. Any claimed reason for existence would itself be part of existence.
Also, and OBVIOUSLY, 'your' OWN individual human being 'claimed reason' that there is NO 'reason' for Existence, Itself, would itself be a part of Existence, Itself, correct?

And, if yes, then you ALSO WANTING TO CLAIM that ANY 'claimed reason', being PART OF 'Existence', Itself, would then AUTOMATICALLY FORFEIT 'the reason', FORFEIT your OWN 'reasons' and CLAIMS, here.
Existence involves reason in part. Reason is a construct concerning particular things often conflated with existence in its general sense. For example, the universe may have been created for or by reason of a creator yet that reason would apply specifically to that particular arrangement. The causal reason would concern a particular configuration, not existence.
1. you are, again, just saying and writing things that are already known.

2. The Universe could never have begun nor created all at once. So, saying that the Universe 'may have been created' is just False, and Wrong.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence itself cannot have causal reason.
Once again, no one has said It could, so 'this', here, is moot, again.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Any claimed reason would have qualities substantiating it as a thing or as part of existence.
'This', again, is coming from a very, very closed view and perspective.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am For example, its initiation of [another part of] existence or its interaction with [another part of] existence would substantiate it as a thing.
But there are no 'another part of Existence', Itself, so 'the rest' is moot, too.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Any thing would be [part of] existence. Existence would not cause existence. Existence would already be.
Why are you presenting 'things', which could not be, as though they 'could be', and then 'trying to' argue against 'them'?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am The point is existence itself has no initiating cause or reason as articulated in the original statement and essay note.
No one, here, has ever thought, let alone said and claimed, that 'Existence', Itself, has some so-called 'initiating cause nor reason. So, why are you, again, introducing things, which no one, here, has ever thought nor said, and then are 'trying to' argue against 'them'?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am
Age wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:56 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:58 am As existence is eternal any causal reason would be applied after the fact of existence already being. Any reason would be contrivance.
Have you EVER CONSIDERED that THE REASON that 'Existence', Itself, EXISTS has been 'around' for AS LONG AS 'Existence', Itself, HAS BEEN?

If no, then WHY NOT?

WHY are you ONLY 'considering' SOME things, here, ONLY?
As expressed in the original essay:
daniel j lavender wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:44 pmAs existence never began, as existence had no starting point things wouldn't need to advance or develop from a beginning. There wouldn't be a beginning to need to develop from. Things would always be existent and could exist at any level of development at any given time. This essentially means life, or consciousness, could be eternal.
Are you aware of the contradictions and inconsistencies in this what you call 'original essay'?

If yes, then great.

But, if no, then would like to be informed of what they are, where they are, and more importantly why they are?

If yes, then great.

But if no, then why not?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Reason is an aspect of existence involving conscious beings. Consciousness is presumably eternal and so is reason.
Which all means 'what', exactly?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence just is.
It can also be said, and 'argued', 'human snot' just is, as well.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Sequence and time, like reason, are constructs concerning particulars often conflated with existence in its general sense. Attempting to apply chronological order to reason and existence struggles because reason is existence.
But, there is no so-called 'struggle' at all, here, when and if one already knows what 'the reason' is for 'Existence', Itself.

But, obviously there are few other things one must learn, and/or discover and know, beforehand, before the reason of 'why' things are, exactly, also comes to be learned, and known.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence is reason.
Really?

I thought that 'Existence' is Existence, and, 'reason' is reason. But, if you really want to believe and claim that 'Existence' is reason, then that is okay and fine, with me.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence does not merely come from reason or begin because of reason. Reason is existence. That is precisely why there is no reason causing existence.
Who has ever, ever thought, said, or claimed that there was 'a reason' causing Existence, Itself?

Why do you keep 'drifting off', and 'drifting off so far', from what I have actually been saying and claiming, here?
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Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 amExistence involves reason in part. Reason is a construct concerning particular things often conflated with existence in its general sense. For example, the universe may have been created for or by reason of a creator yet that reason would apply specifically to that particular arrangement. The causal reason would concern a particular configuration, not existence.
1. you are, again, just saying and writing things that are already known.

2. The Universe could never have begun nor created all at once. So, saying that the Universe 'may have been created' is just False, and Wrong.
The universe certainly could have been created. In your own words:
Age wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:05 amWhy are you CLOSED, here?

AGAIN, WHY are you CLOSED?

WHAT made or CAUSED you to BECOME CLOSED?
Universe is a restrictive, limited term and as illustrated serves largely to deny a higher power. Existence is the more comprehensive term. Existence is the more practical term as well.

With the terms and definitions provided one could point to a leaf, or any other item, and easily claim existence. However one could not point to a leaf and easily claim universe. Universe is a restrictive term.

Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am As expressed in the original essay:
Are you aware of the contradictions and inconsistencies in this what you call 'original essay'?

If yes, then great.

But, if no, then would like to be informed of what they are, where they are, and more importantly why they are?

If yes, then great.

But if no, then why not?
Identify them.

Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence is reason.
Really?

I thought that 'Existence' is Existence, and, 'reason' is reason. But, if you really want to believe and claim that 'Existence' is reason, then that is okay and fine, with me.
Reason is a thing, a part of existence as defined in the original text. Reason is perceived substantiating it as a thing.

Reason is [part of] existence.

Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am The point is existence itself has no initiating cause or reason as articulated in the original statement and essay note.
No one, here, has ever thought, let alone said and claimed, that 'Existence', Itself, has some so-called 'initiating cause nor reason. So, why are you, again, introducing things, which no one, here, has ever thought nor said, and then are 'trying to' argue against 'them'?
Then with the original statement you agree.

When considered completely and in context that is what the original statement conveys, no causal reason for existence itself. You, however, isolate single sentences and statements then scrutinize the resulting disconnection.

Your method in debate consists of isolating statements, removing context and then questioning the basis of the disconnected fragments. You then lock interlocutors in repetitive loops of argumentation amongst the fragments.

For example you criticize the exclusion of why or reason when why or reason are not excluded but implicitly attributed to particular things. What is articulated is eternal existence itself having no causal reason:
daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 10:08 am - It may be questioned why existence is. There is no why or reason. Why would imply a cause or a beginning. Existence is eternal and did not begin. There was no reason initiating existence as existence is eternal. There is no reason for existence. Existence simply is.
Feel free to introduce a new topic for discussion.
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Existence is continuous.
It has to beginning and no end, only cycles.
It requires no creator.
It is not enclosed.
Existence is dynamic and interactive - energy: a state of agitation.
Existence is not absolute - indivisible, immutable; not a thing, but a static but a dynamic process.
Existence is multiplicity . not a singularity. It is conceptualized as a singularity (universe, cosmos) by human minds projecting consciousness in a position "outside existence" to then conceptualize it as a singular whole.
Existence is presence - past made present, perceived as the apparent.
Existence is not entirely ordered. Chaos is in existence - energies with no pattern = chaos.
Past = determined immutable. Present = mutable, dynamic, existent. Future = what is being determined in the present.
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daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm
Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 amExistence involves reason in part. Reason is a construct concerning particular things often conflated with existence in its general sense. For example, the universe may have been created for or by reason of a creator yet that reason would apply specifically to that particular arrangement. The causal reason would concern a particular configuration, not existence.
1. you are, again, just saying and writing things that are already known.

2. The Universe could never have begun nor created all at once. So, saying that the Universe 'may have been created' is just False, and Wrong.
The universe certainly could have been created.
The 'Universe', by definition, has to be and is infinite and eternal, and therefore was not 'created', in the sense if all at once by something else.

The infinite Universe is in an eternal Creation.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm In your own words:
Age wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:05 amWhy are you CLOSED, here?

AGAIN, WHY are you CLOSED?

WHAT made or CAUSED you to BECOME CLOSED?
Yes, 'they' are my own words.

But, obviously when one already knows, for sure, what actual took place, or takes place, then that one also already knows that any thing conflicting or contradicting with what took place, or takes place, did not and count not have happened.

The Universe did not and certainly could not have been 'created', in 'the way' you are talking about and imagining, here.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm Universe is a restrictive, limited term and as illustrated serves largely to deny a higher power.
If this is what you want to believe is true, then okay, but please inform 'the readers', here, how you are defining the 'Universe' word, and, what could possibly have a higher power than 'That'.

Also, I never saw nor recognized any so-called 'illustration' above, here.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm Existence is the more comprehensive term. Existence is the more practical term as well.

With the terms and definitions provided one could point to a leaf, or any other item, and easily claim existence. However one could not point to a leaf and easily claim universe. Universe is a restrictive term.
'leaf' therefore is also a so-called restrictive term, and so to is 'existence' a so-called restrictive term, but so what?

By definition 'definitions' are 'restrictive terms'. For if they were not, then nothing at all would make sense to you human beings, here.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm
Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am As expressed in the original essay:
Are you aware of the contradictions and inconsistencies in this what you call 'original essay'?

If yes, then great.

But, if no, then would like to be informed of what they are, where they are, and more importantly why they are?

If yes, then great.

But if no, then why not?
Identify them.
Okay, but so 'we' are in agreement, and, literally, on the same page, where, exactly, is the so-called 'original essay', here?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm
Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am Existence is reason.
Really?

I thought that 'Existence' is Existence, and, 'reason' is reason. But, if you really want to believe and claim that 'Existence' is reason, then that is okay and fine, with me.
Reason is a thing, a part of existence as defined in the original text. Reason is perceived substantiating it as a thing.

Reason is [part of] existence.
Just like 'reason' is a part of the Universe and of Life, Itself. Which just like 'Existence', Itself, are all infinite and eternal.

But, your own 'restrictive terms' tell you otherwise, correct?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm
Age wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:28 am
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:33 am The point is existence itself has no initiating cause or reason as articulated in the original statement and essay note.
No one, here, has ever thought, let alone said and claimed, that 'Existence', Itself, has some so-called 'initiating cause nor reason. So, why are you, again, introducing things, which no one, here, has ever thought nor said, and then are 'trying to' argue against 'them'?
Then with the original statement you agree.
Do I?

What even was the so-called 'original statement', exactly, which 'you' 'now' claim that 'I' agree with?
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm When considered completely and in context that is what the original statement conveys, no causal reason for existence itself. You, however, isolate single sentences and statements then scrutinize the resulting disconnection.
Okay.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm Your method in debate consists of isolating statements, removing context and then questioning the basis of the disconnected fragments.
Just so you will become aware, I do not do 'debate'.

I have just been pointing out where, in what you say and write, here, is Wrong.
daniel j lavender wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:17 pm You then lock interlocutors in repetitive loops of argumentation amongst the fragments.

For example you criticize the exclusion of why or reason when why or reason are not excluded but implicitly attributed to particular things. What is articulated is eternal existence itself having no causal reason:
daniel j lavender wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 10:08 am - It may be questioned why existence is. There is no why or reason. Why would imply a cause or a beginning. Existence is eternal and did not begin. There was no reason initiating existence as existence is eternal. There is no reason for existence. Existence simply is.
Feel free to introduce a new topic for discussion.
Feel absolutely free to introduce as many topics as you like.

your claim, however, that,

'There is no reason for Existence'

is, still, False, Wrong, Inaccurate, and Incorrect. As explained why above, here.

Now, if you would like to change your claim, here, to some thing like,

'Existence is eternal, and thus obviously could not have begun',

Then great, there is absolutely nothing that could be refuted, here.

However, your claim that there is no reason for Existence, can and has been already refuted. As illustrated above, here.

Now, 'trying to' substantiate further, and/or 'trying to' fight more, for your claim that Existence is eternal, by adding in layers of complexity, like there is no 'reason' or no 'why' for Existence, Itself, in the hope of 'trying to' prove that Existence did not begin, was only bringing your claim down, and not supporting it at all.

There being 'no beginning' is all that was and is needed to be said, here. There is not a human being who could argue, soundly and validly, against this. Therefore, there is not a human being who could refute this.
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