There is something rather that nothing because "nothing" is logically impossible. Feel free to prove otherwise. Good luck. Energy must be conserved.
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Your logical premises begin from something. Before this something could arise, there is nothing.
“Nothing” (like the number 0) is like a placeholder. What has no form—inherent self-existence—can enable all things to have theirs.
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It is in a sense futile to conceptualize it, because your conceptualization is enabled by it and cannot thus cover it by any means. Of course you cannot conceive of it; it is excluded from your logic, but only because it is precisely what makes your logic possible.
“Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.”
— Tao Te Ching, chapter 11
Of course it’s also perfectly logical to say that there is no such thing as nothingness, as by definition it does not exist. 😂 Yet curiously it is what everything that exists needs in order to exist, so there is something about it that is very undeniable.
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