Robin,
Dear friend.
Firstly, I see you have made no further comment about that quote, so I take it that that is as close as I'm going to get to an apology.
Secondly, I do not have "hissy fits". You would be surprised ar how calmly and good naturedly I repond to the posts in this thread. But, in reference to that so called "hissy fit", you will have to link to it because I can't think of a single reason why I would have denied that "began to exist" is the same as "came into existence". They very obviously mean the same thing.
Thirdly, universe as I have used it here is interchangeable with "multiverse", "bubble universe", or "everything that has ever existed". This is why "something from something else" is out of the range of my question about origins. Remember that I have been talking about ultimate questions. If this universe is not all there is, then we can use one of the other terms.
Lastly, my apologies for miss-attributing to you the idea of circular time. My only excuse is that I am responding to perhaps a half a dozen posters, and I simply lost track.
BTW, do you ascribe to circular time as a solution to our little problem.
Dear friend.
Firstly, I see you have made no further comment about that quote, so I take it that that is as close as I'm going to get to an apology.
Secondly, I do not have "hissy fits". You would be surprised ar how calmly and good naturedly I repond to the posts in this thread. But, in reference to that so called "hissy fit", you will have to link to it because I can't think of a single reason why I would have denied that "began to exist" is the same as "came into existence". They very obviously mean the same thing.
Thirdly, universe as I have used it here is interchangeable with "multiverse", "bubble universe", or "everything that has ever existed". This is why "something from something else" is out of the range of my question about origins. Remember that I have been talking about ultimate questions. If this universe is not all there is, then we can use one of the other terms.
Lastly, my apologies for miss-attributing to you the idea of circular time. My only excuse is that I am responding to perhaps a half a dozen posters, and I simply lost track.
BTW, do you ascribe to circular time as a solution to our little problem.