Recent questions tagged origins

Description : Who started fluther.com? Also: Who thought of it? Also: How?

Last Answer : This post is old and out of date, but it does contain some information. Founders Ben and Andrew (known collectively as Bendrew and also as the Fluthergods) have moved on, and there's no more ... Here is the first question: https://www.fluther.com/1/whats-so-special-about-salt-and-pepper/

Description : Would you become more aware of your present actions and take good care of your character if you realized that it would affect your descendants further into the future?

Last Answer : answer:They likely were far more occupied by immediate practical concerns Maybe this was a decision they had to make to get a job, or legal papers, or welfare How often do you think of the effects ... ancestors if you go back far enough I don't know about my roots any earlier than 3 generations.

Description : What happened 14 billion years ago?

Last Answer : It expanded into nothingnes, creating somethingness.

Description : Which is the more likely culprit to explain Earth Origins, Abiogenesis or Exogenesis?

Last Answer : answer:Abiogenesis, if life on earth originated some other place you need to ask where did that life come from. If the answer to that is more panspermia or exogenesis you need to ask where the original ... more simple that life started here than started some other place and then made it's way here.

Description : Is it wrong to not want to learn about my "roots"?

Last Answer : answer:I'm neither black nor African, but I'm interested in the topic. I'm not Jewish, and I'm interested in the Holocaust, too. I'm interested in all aspects of history and civilization and culture and what ... them may be true, too. (Not much on economics or politics, I'm afraid. C'est la vie.)

Description : Which would be the bigger miracle, Consciousness arising from Non-Consciousness, OR Consciousness arising from Eternal Consciousness?

Last Answer : answer:Well we both agree that conscience sprung forth. That being said you claim it was from an all knowing being, and I claim it was because of random chance. Random chance has been ... mans intelligence. Either way we both believe intelligence sprang from nothing. I just skip the middle man.

Description : Where did the word "pee" originate? pee, not pea.

Last Answer : answer:It’s merely a representation of the first letter of the word “piss”. http://podictionary.com/?p=491

Description : Say, Say, Oh Playmate origins?

Last Answer : Some things are just a mystery.

Description : Is there some sort of unusual incident or interesting anecdote, regarding how you got your first or middle name?

Last Answer : The day before my baby-naming, my parents realized that my initials were ASS, so they gave me a middle name.