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What Came Before The Beginning of Time?
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@JYOTISH_.
August 6, 2026 at 10:59 am
|| HOW THIS CONVERSATION STARTS AND SOMEHOW ENDS WITH SOME MULTI UNIVERSES IS BAD ||
|| HARI OUM TAT SAT ||
|| JAGAD NA ADI HE NAH AAND ||
|| THE UNIVERSE HAS NO BEGINNING OR NO END ||
|| IT IS EXPANDING EVER OUTWARD AND WHEN ENTROPY SETS IN IT WILL CAUSE THE STARS TO GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION ||
|| THIS IS SOME VEDIC GYAN OR KNOWLEDGE ||
@Makinpeoplethink
August 6, 2026 at 11:02 am
Or Occam’s razor would simply say “God.” Anytime people appeal to the absurd notion of the multiverse, they are truly desperate to avoid a Creator God who not only made everything, but offers healing and grace through Jesus, his son.
@orangenostril
August 6, 2026 at 11:29 am
Whether or not a god exists, it DEFINITELY wouldn’t be the simplest explanation lol
@InformationIsTheEdge
August 6, 2026 at 11:33 am
You did not study what the idea of Occam’s Razor has to say for itself. Your post gives the distinct impression that your priest gave you this false precis, you never investigated the matter and you are now trying to propagate this terrible idea.
@Kessel_cant_Animate
August 6, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Let me guess you be in young earth too? We can prove that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and that the universe is near 13 billion.
@drewmichael4630
August 6, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Incredible response!
@saltycrunch
August 6, 2026 at 1:48 pm
Why do you all sound like you belong in an asylum?
@temporaryautonomouszones
August 6, 2026 at 11:03 am
Time is a construct
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Sarcasm or fake depth? The suspense is almost unbearable.
@Coraline-u8k
August 6, 2026 at 11:05 am
Great job, everything looks clean ..
@JellyJamm22
August 6, 2026 at 11:43 am
Wtf is ur pfp 😭😭
@a.b-Clay
August 6, 2026 at 1:47 pm
@JellyJamm22 It’s a bot.
@JellyJamm22
August 6, 2026 at 6:08 pm
@a.b-Clay Mmm… Yeah, I should’ve known, lmao. I thought it was a troll or some shii, I’m gonna report them
@Bjorn-Lucent
August 6, 2026 at 11:58 am
We’re in a deep hole cavern of swiss cheese that makes up matter on this dimensional plane of something that’s always existed. Time was created after the first consciousness became aware of itself.
@drewmichael4630
August 6, 2026 at 12:15 pm
It takes more faith as an atheist when thinking about explanations other than the God of the Bible
@CherishedOnion
August 6, 2026 at 12:34 pm
You used the wrong word there. It isn’t more faithful. If you separate the same mechanism into different parts than, let’s say God, there is no more faith involved.
@Kessel_cant_Animate
August 6, 2026 at 1:03 pm
We don’t use faith we use the evidence
@preston-gull
August 6, 2026 at 1:06 pm
Whether or not God exists, the questions still do. Asking about the physics of time is not satisfied by saying “well… God.”
Perhaps someday we will have the chance to ask a superior being questions about the material world. Until then, we can be satisfied with constant inquiry with the materials we do have.
@saltycrunch
August 6, 2026 at 1:48 pm
All of your silly stories fall apart when you ask a religious person “who created your God?”. They start mumbling that God was always there. How? The internal logic falls apart very quickly.
@user-mz5sl7jb8q
August 6, 2026 at 6:18 pm
@Kessel_cant_Animate Faith and science can easily coexist. Ppl that claim otherwise are being ridiculous. If I refer to empirical evidence as God ‘s miracles while adhering to how the rules of this universe functions, it satisfies both. Arguably, a sense of faith comes in handy when discussing things for which we have no answer. Such as what came ‘before’ the big bang.
@HughTube-t6l
August 6, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Time is more the one thing. CausalityTime, or if you want it, SpaceCausalityTime is what happens. SpacePassingTime is how long thi fs take, because nothing happens at once… Sorry about milt English and typing.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 1:20 pm
For a FACT, nobody knows the real answer other than some religious people and their absurd religions bringing in an invisible man in the sky thinking they solved the problem 😂
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 2:06 pm
That’s why religions have been created in the first place: make the word intelligible.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 2:20 pm
@babelbabel2419 “god is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 3:02 pm
@Sa.jkl12it’s rather pompous but ok.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 3:17 pm
@babelbabel2419 it’s obv who is truly pompous when you look into egoistical religious ppl
@hamzaahmad129
August 6, 2026 at 4:05 pm
@babelbabel2419 it’s not pompous, you’re just simple minded or sensitive. Religion might have been made to make the world intelligible, but it failed to do so.
@CaptainMisery86
August 6, 2026 at 1:49 pm
Before the first big bang there was only void. A boundless expanse of nothing. Then a big bang happened and the void became 99.9+% nothing. Any number of bangs of any size can happen at any moment and at any point in the void. We could have been the first or we could be the most recent or 1000 more could have happened while I was writing this comment. No matter how many bangs happen, that boundless void will never dip below 99.9% empty
@johnemanuele8695
August 6, 2026 at 2:06 pm
Time is a concept…does a concept by definition exist?
@Mattjammar
August 6, 2026 at 3:09 pm
No, but a concept can be valid (grounded in reality) or invalid (not grounded in reality).
So, a concept exists in as much as the thing it describes exists.
So, while the word “time” is itself not actually “time itself”, the concept of “time” is grounded in the reality that all things, as far as has been observed thus far, happen sequentially as opposed to all at once or not at all.
@mschwarck
August 6, 2026 at 2:50 pm
This answer is ridiculous and obviously wrong.
@oildalestar
August 6, 2026 at 2:51 pm
The Bible says that there were nothing but the void and God
@zelddan
August 6, 2026 at 3:09 pm
Time began when I woke up today.
@Mattjammar
August 6, 2026 at 3:15 pm
Go back to bed.
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 4:51 pm
_That_ is the correct answer.
@Swampshrimp
August 6, 2026 at 4:57 pm
Thankyou for your service
@jakejensen6465
August 6, 2026 at 6:13 pm
last-thursdayism
@Fireok73
August 6, 2026 at 6:30 pm
@Mattjammar I feel you, man
@ORYTHE
August 6, 2026 at 3:37 pm
I like to imagine time isnt passing, so much as “growing” towards the end of the universe.
@naysaynever
August 6, 2026 at 4:39 pm
But you cant go back in time
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 4:54 pm
Why does this always become a thing? Time would’ve begun _at_ the Big Bang, when homeostasis was disrupted. Any “time” before that is meaningless. Stop the “high-minded” nonsense.
@user-mz5sl7jb8q
August 6, 2026 at 6:14 pm
You’re trying to sound smarter than you actually are. It’s obvious why ppl would wonder what happened before the big bang. Pretending it’s, “high-minded nonsense” just makes you look like a tryhard.
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 6:47 pm
@user-mz5sl7jb8q Lol And I suppose _you_ feel like judging the character of a stranger makes _you_ “seem intelligent”? 😂 Time. Is. A. Construct. It requires measurement. Measurement would be impossible before the Big Bang, thereby making the alleged “Big Bang” the beginning of time. It’s really _not_ that difficult, ya cryhard.
@Joey-d8l4l
August 6, 2026 at 5:00 pm
God.
@Comrade-Mostafa
August 6, 2026 at 5:05 pm
He sounds just like coach greg, btw i didn’t get a thing he said so um out of 10🎉
@108Rudi
August 6, 2026 at 5:52 pm
Incoherent question. The supposition of eveything having a beginning is wrong. Time is not a thing anyway. The question would be correctly stated as “when did the relative rate of change begin?”, clearly nonsense. The real question is why is there something instead of nothing? Which is an unanswerable dilemma as “why” implies cause and effect, but the cause of something cannot be nothing.
@3littlebits
August 6, 2026 at 6:09 pm
This is one of the most helpful explanations I have ever heard. Thank you.
@LD-dt1sk
August 6, 2026 at 7:21 pm
I know what was before time began but I dont have enough space in the comments to write the answer.
@lxathu
August 6, 2026 at 7:44 pm
I understand but was it a Monday? That would explain a lot of unpleasant events.
@MikeNeligan
August 6, 2026 at 8:38 pm
Could “The big bang” be the output of a black hole collapse..? 😂
@eb7713
August 6, 2026 at 8:39 pm
There was a wise preacher I like who said that the world ends when you die. That kind of is in the same vein of meaning to me. 😊
@barbaralynch2085
August 6, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Time never began. It all happens instantaneously, but our minds are only capable of monitoring it sequentially.