What’s your expertise/education on the subject?
Hard to see the alliance between the USA and Japan breaking down for any reason.
No, because it’s circular logic.
It is, and that’s inherent in the problem under consideration, the problem of the ‘uncaused caused’ or the ‘first mover’. Logic can either be A) circular or B) not-circular. Any not-circular logic must explain each element by referring to a prior, but then you’ve got an infinite regress. So you’re trapped in a dilemma: do you want the circular logic or the infinite regress? Liebniz’s choice was to say that God was inherently existent, like when Lao Tzu said 道法 自然
There’s no reason for a necessary being to exist before it does
Correct. It is necessary: it is self-causing. It does not stand upon a ‘reason’, unlike everything else in conditioned existence.
to exist before it does
You’re assuming it is subject to the laws of linear time and causation, and point out how that assumption leads to a contradiction. But Liebniz’s God is not subject to the laws of linear time and causation. Which is the whole point of positing it: because if it were subject to those laws: infinite regress.
and no evidence that one does in the real world.
Well the world exists, so all this existence must have some cause. That was the starting point of the conversation: Why is there something instead of nothing?
Well Liebniz said it’s because of a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself, if that helps.
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How much general legitimacy does the regime have there? Do people not want to overthrow/replace it by this point?
Why is there something instead of nothing
Cool story
Ok Biden-lover
It’s valid to have posts slagging an unpopular politician.
stackexchange will probably give you a better answer than lemmy (that’s me trying to be helpful with good advice)
sure
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I’m seeing 21-22% on AliExpress
This is a verbatim corporate press release
Howler of a title tho
Don’t let the media fool you