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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Something I've pondered.
"Always was" presupposes a beginning date or event. Call it the Big Bang, call it the Creation, call it whatever. But in order to define "always" we have to have a beginning. Our reality begins with that beginning. Our perception cannot extend beyond, or outside, that reality, because it is all there is.
Therefore to ask "what happened BEFORE the beginning?" is illogical. There is no way we can ever know.
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Disagree with your definition of "always was". To me "always" indicates infinity. If you presuppose a starting date then to say something has "always" been would be incorrect. It has only been "since the starting date".
To ponder what happened before is actually possible. We haven't mentioned it yet, but there is a theory that the universe oscillates. The universe will expand, slow to a stop, then collapse then start over again.