Does anything have a beginning?

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I admit I was pondering the concept of God always having existed. Then I asked  a simple question "when does a telephone begin to exist? I can see telephones exist. I can understand Mr. Bell having thoughts about how to build a telephone. I can understand having just the concept or idea, even before the details are conceived and worked out. It even seems somewhat logical that a telephone existed as a vibration or energy wave before Mr.Bell by perfecting his mechanism (himself) through continued concentration and focus was able to "tune in" to the idea. Perhaps it existed as more fundamental ideas that needed correlation. If any of that is true, where did it start. Has the idea of a telephone always existed? Has perhaps everything always existed including all kinds of things which will appear to be invented in the future?.  Which in reality will only be the physical manifestation. Applying the "Law of Cause and Effect" there has to be a cause, what or where is it?

Matt · Accepted Answer

very deep question. I think it is like potential energy. There was alway potential for human beings to make a telephone it is possible but without the effort of mr. bell it never would have become a reality. Each of us in tern have incredible potential but only if we work at it and fine tune our own god given tallents. I belive that we have always existed and always will but we existed as intelegences and god made us into spirits and then into souls with bodys. Mass and matter cannot be created or distroyed only transformed. The amount of work put into that mass and matter can transform it into something better or no effort will result in chaos which can transform it into nothing.

l m · Answer

There isn't one.  It is nothing.  The tiniest most ridiculously small piece of nothing you could possibly ever imagine.  The nothing that something is always trying to fill because something that does not move does not exist and to have existence we must have motion and to have motion we must have a nothing to fill.

Imagine a new, more simple universe.  It consists solely of one of those simple childhood puzzles where the numbered squares are slid until they are in the proper order.  Now imagine you don't have a missing square.  When the puzzle is all filled, there is no motion.  Nothing moves if there is no space to move to, and in our universe, nothing exists unless it is in motion.  Existence itself depends primarily on nonexistence. 

But the entirety of all universes that exist in reality and thoughts that exist outside of reality, plus all their equivalent derivations, permutations and possibilites on to infinitude have existed and will continue to exist forever plus that one tiny, ridiculously small piece of nothing.  We merely travel through the experience of them as a reader travels through the pages of a book until we again reach that final, tiny piece of nothing.  

And what is the nothing? It is merely the condensed version of something completely different.  A singularity if you will.  

Now please don't ask me to explain it again because I almost forgot how to breathe in the process of trying to answer all of this for you.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, quite a few things have a begining except God, who always was and always will be.

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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03459a.htm

goodfella · Answer

Quite Brilliant, S.E!

For me, "N" - "O".

Buddhist's see a first cause as unfathomable.

"Where you've come from's not as important as where you're GOING".

Good question.

Revealing 'original' insight.  ;-)

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