Yeah that's what I think too, it makes too much sense. It really does seem as though the universe is eternal since nothing couldn't exist and thus existence always had to existence. Maybe it just continually repackages itself and exists in different forms.
That's interesting, thanks for clearing up the difference. Philosophically, I think it's impossible for existence to have begun since it would be impossible for nothing to exist, therefore existence would always have to have existed. I don't know what that means for the universe, maybe that...
So the world is basically an illusion? If so that seems paradoxical because it seems like there needs to be an objective world that already exists for us to be able to exist not one that's generated by our minds.
Well, if that's true, then people have different views of reality and thus if they...
Hm, I hadn't quite thought about it like that but yeah, the universe is a paradox. It seems like Zeno's dichotomy paradox can be applied to the universe such that the universe can't be 13.8 billion years old because it would have to have an infinite amount of time exist between 0 and 13.8...