The Sun will Come out Tomorrow

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Bet your bottom dollar that, tomorrow, there’ll be sun!  Ok enough Annie, but in all seriousness, will the sun come out tomorrow? Russell says in chapter VI that the reason we believe that the sun will come out tomorrow is because in all our experience in past futures it has. Every day that I or you have been alive on this earth the sun has come out. Tomorrow I will expect nothing different than for the sun to rise in the morning and set in the evening. But what other reasons other than sheer trust do I have for firmly believing this will happen? The first and obvious example which Russell uses is the laws of motion. Something that is in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Now of course this means that our relatively small planet is spinning around the sun which creates our days and gives life to us on earth, but what would happen if we suddenly were hit with an “outside” force as Russell describes? Well we can trust NASA all we want to warn us if such a thing is coming our way, but in reality, we are all just floating around on a little blue dot in space that is somehow utter nothingness and everything-ness. (Now, I know that last comment is not something Russell would ever agree to because it messes with the law of contradiction, which is one of the three laws later talked about in chapter VII, but I think you all know what I mean). Space is unpredictable, I don’t think that I will ever truly grasp the great concept of how truly large and encompassing space is. All I can really do is have trust in my experience with past-futures and hope that the sun will rise tomorrow in all my future-futures to come.

Pun of the week: How do you organize a party in space? You planet!!

P.S I commented on Will and Ethan's!

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  1. Ethan LafontFebruary 4, 2018 at 9:58 PM

    1/10 pun

    My comment to most philosophy is usually this. I may not understand it in my mind, but because of my belief in God, I need not worry and I have no real desire to ask these kinds of questions. Maybe I'm being lazy and that not a very intelligible way to think to others, but Ive never been kept up at night with thoughts such as this, and I don't intend to dive into all of these doubts and questions that really won't get me anywhere.

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  2. Ty GoramFebruary 5, 2018 at 9:15 PM

    This whole reading had me *spaced* out.
    But anytime I randomly think about the universe and how infinite it is, I just zone out hard. It's wild to even try and grasp everything there is about it.

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