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		gizajob 55 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your... I feel like the language of this argument is self-undermining. The existence of the universe being dependent on a cause that is itself not contingent on anything else… As easily the existence of the universe could be not contingent with anything else.

lo_zamoyski 55 days ago [–]

> As easily the existence of the universe could be not contingent with anything else.

But the universe is contingent. It isn't necessary. It is one big chain of dependence.

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